NATAL.
THE NATIVE DISTURBANCE. PIETERMARITZBURG, July 6. Besides the loss inflicted by Captain Barker on the Ist instant, and by Captain Campbell in. defending the attack made Jon the convoy last Tuesday, a further 600 Zulus have been killed. The Natal Premier deolares that the troops in the field are suflioient to deal with the rebellion. Mr Yonge has withdrawn his motion moved in the Natal Assembly in favour of ex propriatiug rebels' land, fearing that the enemies of Natal might declare the rebellion to be engineered. The Natal Government has requested the press not to publish Mr Keir Hardie's letter to the Zulu in Edinburgh, in which communication the writer deolared that the wholesale massacres of natives in South Africa filled him, with shaine and horror and expressing the hope that the Zulus would soon be able to defend themselves from the barbarities o£ the bypooritioal whites. Th<j European who was murdered in Mesini's kraal was Mr Olester Veal, Inspector of Works.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8177, 9 July 1906, Page 5
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163NATAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8177, 9 July 1906, Page 5
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