DINIZULU.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9157, 3 August 1908, Page 5

DINIZULU.

PAYMENT'Of HIS SALARY

NATAL OBJECTS

DURBAN. July 31. In the Natal Parliament, Sir James Hulett moved:—"That (he Imperial Government's decision to pay Dinizulu's salary is fraught with serious danger to Natal and South Africa, and may tend to defeat the ends of justice, through the natives drawing an inference that Great Britain is backing Dinizulu against Natal." Speaking to the motion, Sir James Hulett declared that serious results might ensue if an autonomous colony were placed at the mercy of the caprice of irresponsible outsiders. The rankest treason was now being preached to large assemblages of natives. Ultimately Mr Morcom moved in favour of the re-opening of negotiations for the payment of Dinizulu's salary, in order to re-establish friendly relations with the Imperial Government. He moved that this be the next business, and the motion was carried unanimously.

DINIZULU PROTESTS

PROSECUTION POISONED THE PUBLIC MIND.

DURBAN, July 31. Dinizulu protests that the prosecution poisoned the public mind against him, and'selected criminals and personal enemies to testify untruths against him. It would have been'easy, he says; to have established his innocence if his lawyer had been permitted to enter Zululand. Received August 2, 4.30 p.m., DURBAN, August 1. The Natal Government has telegraphed to the Imperial Government that it is prepared, if approached by Dinizulu, to provide the mouey to assist in his defence. The Earl of Crewe, Secretary of State for tiie Colonies, welcomed the message, and assumed that the amount would be at least equal to the instalment of Dinizulu's salary the Imperial Government intended to pay.