ZULULAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1040, 22 February 1879, Page 2

ZULULAND.

Although we have no very recent intelligence, the line being down somewhere m North Australia as it almost always iy at critical times, wo shall soon be receiving interesting news fron* the seat of war m South Africa. Anything then that enables ua to understand the position of affair* at tli6 Cape 'and the nature of the country will be acceptable, We take the following from tho 'Natal Mercury' : — '' So far aa wo avo acquainted v/tth it, the plan that it ia bfaing carried oufc by our military authorities id a wiso and judicious one. Its aim is to surround #aluluud with a chain of connected forces, so aa to isolate it from the rest of teouih Africa. The line of the Tugelfl. which U tjje most exposed border line, m now' p*troji.ed from Rorko's drift to tho mouth, The Tugola is tho ivot-tbera uoq.beru.o froiititi' of British poajesaious m .Sjouth Afii^a. It divides Natal

from Zuluknd, which, iv its turn separates Natal from the Portuguese settlement at Dela^oa Bay, ju3t as Natal separates Zululaud from the Cape Colony. Zuluknd, which is as far from the Capo Colony proper as Scotland -is from France, is occupied ; by a distinct race of native-), who have as little to dp with the frontier CafTres — latsly at war with and now subdued by us— as Prussiaus havo with Austrians. We lay stress upon this distinction, as bo much confusion of distances, places, and peoples, appears to exist m regard to South Africa.- The present movements — whether fthey bo peaceful or warliko m their issue remains to be seen — aro r an eutirely ntAv affiir, and have a different end m view fVom that which was aimed it duriug the Cape frontier war. They arc at present m a strictly precautionary stitc. They arc to disabuse the Zulu mind ot an impression that the British Governmout has neither lorces fco sot m action uor disposition to move them. -If this district of military strength and readiness should bo sufficient to compel Cotawayo's submission to terms that must inevitably bo imposed upon him, South "Africa may bo spured the spectacle of another war, and peace will havo been again obtained by this exhibition of prepared ness for war. In our case it is obviously essential that such a peace must be one not only with honor, but with safety — assured and accepted for the future. We are persuaded that no one perceives this more fully than the High Commissioner, and that no one is more determined to place tho relations of tho British Government with the Zulus and with Zululand on a basis of abiding security.