NATAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8115, 9 April 1906, Page 5

NATAL.

THE NATIVE DISTURBANCE. i ——— i ATTEMPT TO SURPRISE A HOTEL. FRIENDLY NATIVES WARN 1 OCCUPANTS. I MILITIA BEING MOBILISED. Capetown, April 6. Bambaatn's men crawled through the grass, and would have surprised . a hotel only that loyal natives warned the occupants to fly just in . time. The ladies were seated on the pom mels of the troopers' saddles, the horses going full speed. The party was hotly pursued by the Kaffirs, who fired repeatedly. Forty police arrived to defend tbe laager at Keate's Drift, and sent hn urgent appeal to Captain Mansell to oome to their assistance. The Natal Government is mobilising three thousand militia. ZULUS ASSISTING THE REBELS. A i< LYING COLUMN ORGANISED CAPETOWN, April G. Some Zulus from Zululand are with Bambaata. Captain Mansell has oragnised a flying column under Inspector Lindsay. PREPARATIONS TO SHELL BAMBAATA'S POSITION. A LARGE lMtfl READY TO ATTACK THE REBELS. BAMBAATA'S DODGE. LOYAL NATIVES COMMANDEERED. , AND FORCED TO THE FRONT. ! Received April 7, 4.27 p.m. ! Capetown, April 7. The reinforcements sent to Greytown from Maritzfcurg and Durban have effeoted a junction with tbe force under Captain Mansell at Botha's farm. Colonel Leuchar's commando, with the Umvoti Mounted Rifles and the Durban Light Infantry, together with four guns, have arrived. - The artillery is posted on the hill, and preparations are being made to Bhell Bambaata's position. Infantry are being largely employed, and careful soouting is necessary. Besides the trained Zulu auxiliaries who are co-operating with Colonel Leuchar's, the chief (Sebindi is ready with a large impi to tackle Bambaata in the bush in the native fashion. Bambaata commandeered a number of loyal natives, and forced them to tbe front when attacking 'jhe police. TWENTY THOUSAND REGULARS UNDER ORDERS FOR THE CAPE. Received April 7, 4.23 p.m. LONDON April 7. A brigade of field artillery at Aldershot are under orders for South Africa; and twenty thousand regulars will also be sent to the Cape. LORD SELBORNE ON THE 1 CRISIS. CAPETOWN, April 6. Lord Selborne, High Commiasioner, in opening a railway at Fourteen Streams, saving a distance of sixty miles between Capetown and Johannesburg, remarked that the New Hebrides was not exclusively an Australasian question. Similarly the native question in South Africa was not exclusively domestic, inasmuch as the colonies rightly relied on the Mother Country's help in a cate of emergency. His Lordship congratulated Natal on meeting the crisis with firainess and scrupulous justice.