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The Hutal Wercnry COMMERGIAL ADVERTISER. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 187 s

... South Africa Bill, with all the turmoil it created last year in Parliament. South Africa, indeed, has been forced upon Lord CARNARVON'S attention from the beginning to the end of his ministerial career, and it is ia connection with South Africa that his ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 1602 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VESSELS TO ARRIVE

... Bechuanas, Korrannas and Bushmen having equally joined, serves to show that the war in the Cape Colony and general unsettled state of natives in South Africa, is a war of races, to a greab extent. Some of the principal instigators of the rebellion are ...

Published: Friday 05 July 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 2129 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SOUTH AFRICA

... On the present occasion we venture to submit to you some remarks on the native question in South Africa. We do not propose to advert at any length to the war which is still unhappily raging in Kaffraria, for nothing could be further from cur wish than to ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 1944 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

INTERIOR AFRICA.,

... INTERIOR AFRICA., (From the Friend's Correspondent.) Gubulnwayo, Matabililand, May 20, 1878, The aspect of Matabililand Jately, both as t) weather and prospects of our people, has been overcast—not to say :loomy—but bhoth conditions are now changing for ...

Published: Monday 05 August 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 1010 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SCCIETY AND AFRICA

... He apprehended, however, from the religious discords and wars, from which Eng'and had suffered so fatally in times past, and was at this moment suffering in Buloaria and Avrinenia, where-a war of both races and creeds raged under it most ferocious aspeet ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 1246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BIRD-NESTING IN SOUTH AFRICA,

... BIRD-NESTING IN SOUTH AFRICA, The ¢ Gyps Fulous” (our common vulture) is found throughout the Cape Colony and Natal. It breeds in the most inaccessible precipices, depositing a few sticks in some hollow of the rock on which, lam informed, it lays two ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 3597 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LORD CARNARVON ON THE RISING IN SOUTH AFRICA

... THE RISING IN SOUTH AFRICA. The Earl of Carnarvon, on the 16th Nov., received at the Colonial Office a deputation of gentlemen interested in South Afica, who, by appointment, met his Lordship for an intercaange of views on the kaflr war, and to urge upon ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 2254 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAR PROSPECTS

... WAR PROSPECTS. The War Office hasintimated that itis not its intention to employ officers in any number on special service during the campaign in South Africa, as was the case in the Asbantee War, the force at the scene of operations being cufficient ...

Published: Friday 12 April 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 983 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE CAPE FRONTIER WAR

... picked up at the front. The writer advises Sandilli not to surrender, as there is to be war in Burope, and fresh risiugs among the natives are to take place. Kafir wars, says the P. E. Telegraph, have been hitherto leading events in the history of the Cape ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MR. BRIGHT ON THE WAR

... tribes in South Africa and on the northern frontier of India. Suspicion and alarm are spreading throughout large tracts of that portion of Asia which lies conterminous with our northern Indian frontier. I ask this House, then, is not this warring cqough forus ...

Published: Monday 25 March 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 631 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE EASTERN PRESS AND THE WAR

... an accomplished fact, notwithstanding the scandalous attempt of a Grahamstown contemporary to provoke a general war of races in South Africa, and to stir up blood feuds that it would take a generation to allay. Those who have—like the FEastern Star—de ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 987 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(THE KAFIR WAR.) (Friend of the Free Scate.)

... Peelton Mission, Itis said by some that a war-dance was going on, and it is certain that the kafirs turned out armed. Mr. Tainton told the headmen that he had come for the thieves and cattle, and not to make war. The peop'e refused to have anythirg to do ...

Published: Thursday 17 January 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 2167 | Page: 3 | Tags: none