DINIZULU.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 141, 5 June 1908, Page 3

DINIZULU.

WITHDRAWS lII* DEMAND FOR PAYMENT Or ARREARS. Ueceived 4th, !>.5 p.m. Durban, .lime I. I)inizulu°s demand fur payment of hi* arrears of salary has lieen withdrawn, owing to the impossibility of the Court hearing the application until October. TIIK IMPERIAL GOVERNMENTS OBLIGATION. A PLAIN HINT TO NATAL. Ueceived 4th, 10.5 p.m. London, June I. In the House of Commons, Sir W. S. Rob-mo, Attorney-General, replying to questions and criticisms in regard to Dinizulu, declared the Imperial Government was under an honorable obligation , to Dinizulu in regard to his salary ami ' must see it fulfilled. ' He hoped Natal would soon see the in- ' convenience and danger of martial law , continuing. Otherwise the Imperial Go- , vernment. always slow to move in such matters, owing to the constitutional dif- i liculties involved, might be compelled to f act. f . .

INTERFERENCE RESENTED. In 18tW Dinizulu was convicted by a Natal Court of treasonable actions, anil was banished to St. Helena. He was allowed to return to Zululand in IS!W as a Government-appointed chief, with a yearly income of £SOO. The text of the speech of the Premier of Natal, in which he referred to the ''damnable interference" in the affairs of the colony of a group of politicians in the House of Commons, is now available. -I would," Mr. Moor said, 'ask these men what good they are doing as between the .Motherland and Natal when they impertinently ask questions and byother insidious means cast discredit and dishonor on the judiciary and the public institutions of this colony. Natal is within her chartered rights. It is the duty of any and every country to maintain law and order in its midst. We throw it back in the teeth of those men. They have no right to interfere. They interfered without ever hearing Natal. These men would be better employed, if they are concerned for the welfare of the Empire at large, if thev looked more closely to the sedition-mongers in India, to the crimes that are being perpetrated in Ireland, and to the mdlions in the British Isles who are going about without food or clothes. They w ould be doing better service if they turned their attention to measures of reform and relief in the directions I have indicated. I would ask them to remember that the people of Natal are partners in the Imperial concern, are no longer dependent, and while we are doing our share in carrying the white man's burden, those at Home are making that ourden no lighter by their damnable intericrence. 1 hope that better counsels . may prevail, and that they will at least five Natal time to show 'the justice of its position and the integrity ot its institutions.-'