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Osborn. The disorder in the Inkandhla, however, continued, and on the 8th of July a detachment of troops was sent to reconnoitre it, with a view to reassure the loyal natives in the neighbourhood, and an advanced post was established at Esungel- weni in the immediate neighbourhood. This was not immediately successful, and the raiding con- tinued both from the Inkandhla and to a less extent from Central Zululand. Early in September, however, the General Commanding again went into the Reserve to concert measures with Mr. Osborn for its pacification, and on the 17th September Sir H. Bulwer was able to report by telegraph that the Natives in the Inkandhla dis- trict had at last made their submission. A Special Sub-commissionership has been appointed for the Inkandhla, with a view to ensuring the close supervision necessary to its permanent tranquillity.

Since then, there has been an occasional cattle foray across the border, but such incidents have not had much political significance and have par- taken rather of the nature of acts of private robbery, the opportunity for which is due to the uncertain and anomalous state of things at present existing in Central Zululand, The authority of the Resident Commissioner in the Reserve is undisputed, that part of the country is prosperous, and its revenue equal to Or exceeding its expenditure. All that would be necessary to render its condition altogether satis- factory, in a legal and political point of view, would be to issue an instrument in the name of the Queen placing the legal and executive authority of the British Administration on a more regular footing, and this will be done as soon as the question of the policy in Central Zululand is decided.

PROPOSED ASSUMPTION OF AUTHORITY IN 1884.

Before proceeding to other matters arising out of the Boer intervention in Zulu affairs, it may be mentioned that about May 1884, the Colonial Department brought under the consideration of Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet the question of extend- ing British authority over Central Zululand as far as the Black Umvolosi River, leaving the country beyond to Usibebu, and thus dividing the whole of the Zulu kingdom between the anti-Usutus of the north, headed by Usibebu, and Her Majesty. The policy, which had long been urged by Sir Henry Bulwer, was recommended to the Cabinet on the following grounds, some of which are applicable at the present time:-

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It is assumed in this paper that Her Majesty's Government have made up their minds that it is out of the question to retire from Zululand altogether, leaving the inhabitants to fight out their differences among themselves. There remain, then, the alternatives of maintaining our position in the Reserve as it is, or going forward.

“The existing Zulu Reserve only forms about

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