MILITARY RIOTS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1659, 12 November 1887, Page 3

MILITARY RIOTS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Six men of the Ist Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusilier#, stationed n*ar Pietermaritzburg, Africa, recently returned to carap drunk, and violently resisted the guard called out to arrest them. They seizad rifles with bayonets. After a fight two of the mutineers laid down their arms, but the other four escaped into town, doing damage to canteens and levying blackmail. Subirquently the men nsre captured, strong patrols of mounted infantry having been Bent forth in search of them. An officer of the 64th had a bayonet point run through his head, a man in the Inniskillings wss bayoneted in the head and was not expected to survive, a member of the military police was stabbed to the heart and died almost immediately, and 8 civilian was also wound.-d, 'I hn names of the prisoners are—M’Ewan, M’Rai*, Campbell, and Orr, of the 27th Regiment said to belong to Belfast, Ihoy are in the custody.of the Pietermaritzburg borough police. It is said the four who escaped with their arms into the town, vainly endeavoured on their way to obtain ammunition from the guard at Government Ht-u«e. Proceeding through, the town (hey attacked two or three canteens known as mi’i f »ry resorts, and smashed the windows and shutters. A member of the military police who attempted to check them was stabbed through the heart, and died almost ■ immediately. Several civilians were also (Stopped and compelled to pay blackmail under the threat of being ba/onetted. An alarm was then raised, and strong patrols of mounted infantry and dragoons were sent after the mutineers, who then begtn to gel frightened and sought to escape from the town. One of them was captured near the cemetery, bis rifle being found near him damaged with the rough usage to which it had been put. The other three men, who were not captured until the mxt morning were found under a waggon some wiles from the city on the Durban U Road. They still had their rifles and bayonets with them, but were captured without difficulty.—Homo paper.