NATAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8116, 10 April 1906, Page 5

NATAL.

THE NATIVE DISTURBANCE. SEVERAL KRAALS SHELLED. BAMBAATA'S LIEUTENANT KILLED. deceived April 9, 8.31 a.m. PIETERMARITZBURG, April 8. By an arduous night march the colonial troops occupied a point overlooking the Imuanza Valley, and shelled several kraals, killing the chief henchman of Bambaata. BAMBAATA IN ZULULAND. A LARGE FORGE IN PURSUT. Received April 10, 12.8 a.m. PIETERMARITZBURG, April 9. Bambanta has entered Zululand. The chief Elbindi and a thousand other loyal natives will co-operate with Colonel Leuchars as a pursuing forae. The cb : ef Megawataba who was taken prisoner by Bambaata, has escaped,and is now with the Magistrate at Kramtz Kop. Tbe Magistrate at Weeneo leporta that the chief Silware has . de dined Barnbaata'e overtures,' and that be has arrested the two emissaries. Tbe patrols at bave shot several isolated parties of rebels. COMMENT BY LORD CURZON. Received April 3, 9.41 a.m. LONDON, April 9. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, exViceroy of India, speaking at tbe Pilgrims' Club dinner in London, said that if Natal were lost, we were on the way to lose the Empire. Lord Milner, the speaker declared, had administered South Africa in the interests of the people. A long succession of Viceroys bad administered India in the same spirit, and be hoped it would always be governed in tbe same spirit.