DINIZULU'S PLOTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 194, 6 August 1908, Page 4

DINIZULU'S PLOTS.

HOW HE PLANNED Till-: MI'KDEK OF LOYAL CHIEFS.

Some remarkable evidence regarding the charges against Dinizulu is contained in a Blue Book issued recently, giving correspondence between the Colonial Ollice and the Xalal Government during the past live months. ' Perhaps the most interesting statement is that of Bolela ka Fokoti, of the X'kandhhi division, regarding Dinizulu's attempts to have certain friendly chiefs killed in order to secure inlluence over their followers. Rolela was a member of Dinizulu's bodyguard of fifty men, which accompanied- the chief everywhere. Rolela made a detailed statement at X'kandhla on •lanuary 2nd last, in which he described in a quaint language how Cakijaiia, one of Dinizulu's trusted advisers, hud incited him to kill Dinizulu's en:mies. lie said:—

• ; . . . Cakijana came to me and said: ' If you are sent to shoot a certain buck, ami the season for that buck is closed, would you dare do it?' I replied that 1 would, and he then said: ' What would you say if you are caught when vou have shot the buck'!' 1 replied that I would say that I had done so because 1 wanted to steal some meat to eat.' "A few days afterwards he came to me again, and said: 'lf the buck you shoot is one that you cannot eat, what would you say if you were caught?' 1 said that I would say that I had merely killed it for my own purposes. This answer seemed to please him, and he again left me.

"A few days afterwards he came to me. . . . * and he told me that the bucks 1 was ordered to kill were the Chief Mjantshi and Mapoyisa. the chief Mlmzo's' son. They said that Dinizul i directed me to do so.'' Bolela failed in his mission, and wh >n he afterwards saw Dinizulu. ..." I said to him, 'I have failed, N'dabczile. They saw us and lired at us.'

-lie said. 'Did vou not lire Intel;?' •and 1 replied, ' No.' Tie then said: • Yon were afraid, liulehl. You were a toward. 1 have already seen by my bones and charms, which'! have been throwing that you feared shooting Mapoyisa when he was at a wedding dance' "1 then said that Cakijana must have told him details of our doings, and said: • Your orders were that I had to shoot him when alone. I could not shoot him when he was with others.' lie repliei: ' You left aloue the work 1 sent you on, and instead went and delayed.' . . . . "The wholes motive for committing these murders of loyal chiefs and people was to destroy them and thereby obtain inllueuce over their subjects. It wiis known that these chiefs prevented people, from rebelling, and murdering them now would have the effect of terrorising other chiefs and natives from having anything further to do with the white people when the next rebellion came on. We all expected that Dinizuiu would light, but to our surprise he did not do so; we expected that fighting would take place as soon as the crops had been reaped. "There is no doubt that Cakijana is Diniznlii's chief trusted agent for committing all the murders of men who ara an obstacle to Dinizuiu; it is Cakijana wiio plans them and arranged the employment of us as agents. "'[ was present just before Dinizuiu

surrendered, when the preacher Kadairi preached a sermon praying for Dinizuiu and his subjects: lie pointed to the Bible and said that was our charm, that if we followed the tcacliins of the Bible we would be able to dispcrs" the multitudes just like a single rabbit would chase away a whole army; he, of course, referred to the white troops as the multitude.

'•f have often heard it said at the Osiitu that the King in England wanted to have all money coined with his (Diuizulu's) picture on the dins, and also that of liouis Botha, but that the Natal (iovernnient objected to this, and that it was for-tlfis reason that the flovenimenf were trying to provoke Dinizuiu 'to light, so as to get rid of him, is the King was pressing the Natal Government to have his (Dinizulu's) picture on all coins."