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THE NATIVE DISTURBANCE. IMPERIAL AID NOT WANTED. Received April 23, 8.33 a.m. PIETERMARITZBURG. April 22. Mr J. G. Maydou, Minister of Railways in Natal, >» a speech delivered at Durban, declared that the poll-tax was made an excuse for a loug-contemplated resistance. It was not intended to ask for Imperial aid. Ministers had resolved, at wh 'tever coat, to face the proolem without giving the Imperial Government the right of interfering, as such interference would, in Mr Maydon's opiuion. injure the.interests of South Africa. BOER SERVICES ACCEPTED. PIETERMARITZBUtCG, April 22. Mr Smythe, the Premier of Natal, has aucepted the services of Cherry Emmett's commando of 250 Vryheid Boers. Colonel Mansell is laagered at lnkantehlu. An impi approaching did not dare to make an attack. BAMBAATAS' FORCE NUMBERS 1,400. Received April 23, 11. 10 j.m. PIETERMARITZBURG, April 23. Bambaata's followers oonsist of fourteen hundred young malcontent belonging to various tribes. Mr Saunders reports there is almost an open breach in Sigamundi's tribe, a strong faction realising that Bambaata duped them. Some of the tribes have returned to their kraals uwmg to Dinizulus's reply to the authorities and on account of his declaring that the chief S-igamundi must fight his own battle. Dinizulu adds: "I no quarrel with Government."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8125, 24 April 1906, Page 5
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207NATAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8125, 24 April 1906, Page 5
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