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PIETERMARITZBURG, THURSDAY, DEC, 19, 1878

... of the Indian Empire, and it was the opinion of Her Majesty’s Governwent that invasion from that direction was hardly practicable. Now seceing that the bugbear of invasion has been sedulously encouraged by the Ministry now in office, and seeing that what ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1878
Newspaper: Natal Witness
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 751 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE FALL OF CRISPI

... the Thames ; and Grandperret, Attorney-General under the Empire and now a senator, turned schoolmaster 1n Geneva during the invasion. Crispi, if not as well-married a man as Brigham Young, is believed to resemble the sailors, by having a wife-in every port ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1878
Newspaper: Natal Witness
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEFENCE AND PROTECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATAL MERCURY

... quite sutficient to fight the Zulus or any other race of savages, and the coolies quite able to protect our colony from an invasion. I maintain our volunteers are both able and willing to ride right through Zululand and take and keep possession of tho whole ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LORD BEACONSFIELD ON THE THE SITUATION

... occurring on the northwestern frontier of our Indian Empire. If we are to believe much that is heard, it would seem that | the invasion of our Empire is probably at hand, or thai it cannot be averted but by entering into a struggle with some great and unknown ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1878
Newspaper: Natal Witness
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 1955 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DURBAN. 'FROM OUR OWN CORRKSPONDENT.] June Ist, 1878. The public missionary meeting in connection with the ..

... black race ? . Christian men, be they black or white, had civil as well as religious liberties, and were bound to resent an invasion of those liberties as well as other people. The Rev. “ Father” Abra.- -hams, who arrived from America as far back as 1847 ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1878
Newspaper: Natal Witness
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 955 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PIETERMARITZBURG, THURSDAY, DEC. 26, 1878

... years back. It is now generally admitted that the invasion of Affghanistan under Lord AvuckpANp was an utterly unjustifiable proceeding. ‘Will any greater justification be found in the future for the invasion which is now going forward ? We doubt it much ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1878
Newspaper: Natal Witness
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 2127 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VICTORIA PLANTERS ASSOCIATION,

... would urge on the Government the importance of making some arrangements for the defence of this district in case of sudden invasion, and for this purpose would suggest that arms to the extent of 150 stand, with suitable ammunition, be supplied to the Verulam ...

Published: Friday 17 May 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 500 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MILITARY MOVEMENTS AT THE ‘TUGELA. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ]

... getting choked “up, and the water spreads from bank £ hapk. ’ ~ The uneasiness which existed here g few weeks ago as to a Zulu invasion, and which made a good many people fly from' the border, hag entirely disappeared, and the utmost confidence reigns in its ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1878
Newspaper: Natal Witness
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... submit the claim to peaceable arbitration, or would be capable of insinuating that if measures be taken to repel the lawless invasion of a district which has passed formally into our possession, Sir Theophilus Shepstone will be the criminal aggressor.” As ...

Published: Tuesday 19 February 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PIETERMARITZBURG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1878. THE question of Defence, always an important one in this Colony, ..

... should we do if the “ natives were to rise?” or “ What should “ we do in the event of a Zulu invasion ? a very slight indication of such a possible rising or invasion has been sufficient at any time to make us nervous as to our means of defence. Within recent ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 1878
Newspaper: Natal Witness
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 1032 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ZULU BORDER, EXNCROACH..IINTS OF THE ZULUS,

... rendered the country by his able kafir diplomacy, which has been the salvatiou of this'and the adjoining district from Zulu invasion, from the date of bis appointment to the present time; and i would be an impolitic step to remove him from here before the ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1878
Newspaper: Natal Mercury
County: Natal, South Africa
Type: Article | Words: 528 | Page: 2 | Tags: none