NATAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7962, 13 February 1906, Page 5

NATAL.

THE TROUBLE WITH TIIE NATIVES. DRASTIC MEASURES CONSIDERED ADVISABLE. Received February 12, 10.58 p.m. CAPETOWN, February 12. The murderers in the Richmond distriot are Christianised Kaffirs belonging to the Mooiia tribe. They have abandoned thoir kraals aud have fled to the bush near the source of the Umkomas River. It will bo difficult 'to bring them to jusitce. • Three hundred and fifty carbineers and a battery of field artillery have gone to the scene of the disturbance. The attitude of the natives is threateniug. Small bodies of troops have been distributed oyer the country, and may possibly check the movement, but it is considered tbat more dras tic measures are advisable. The trouble is conneoted, almost, equally with the ordinary hut tax as well as the poll tax. The only Imperial troons in Natal are 200 belonging to the Garrison Regiment, stationed at Maritzburg. It is thought that the Imperial troops ought to strengthen the garrisons of the towns and villages. The crops are unripe, which will be a'possible deterrent to an extended rising at present. The natives in *Zulu and other territory are unaffected by the 1 unrest, but, owing to the outbreak originating as above, it is feared that the Ethiopian movement already will do a power of mischief. The Cameron Highlanders at Pretoria are proceeding to Maritzburg. Official information is hopeful that the outbreak will prove purely local