. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . ttle. The following year it was sentwith a body of Kaffirs to the southern border ofthe Colony, against a refractory chief named year 1858 witnessed the despatch, against thechief Matyan. of a punitive expedition, composed ofthe Natal Carbineers (the force raised in 1855),frontier guards, a small party of Boers, and 500Kaffirs. In 1861 the volunteers, in conjunction withHer Majestys regular forces, guarded the borderagainst a threatened invasion by a powerful Zuluarmy, and in 1865, during the wars between theOrange Free S
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . ttle. The following year it was sentwith a body of Kaffirs to the southern border ofthe Colony, against a refractory chief named year 1858 witnessed the despatch, against thechief Matyan. of a punitive expedition, composed ofthe Natal Carbineers (the force raised in 1855),frontier guards, a small party of Boers, and 500Kaffirs. In 1861 the volunteers, in conjunction withHer Majestys regular forces, guarded the borderagainst a threatened invasion by a powerful Zuluarmy, and in 1865, during the wars between theOrange Free State and the Basutos, assisted theImperial troops in effectually stopping the inroadsof the latter into Natal. In 1863 and 1865 laws relating to the maintenance of a Volunteer Mounted BurgherForce were passed with the intention of organising the force by counties into divisions,liable to do duty within and 20 miles beyond the county boundary. Enlistment was to bevoluntary, with daily pay at six to eight shillings when on active service. The scheme seems 505. 506 to have been a failure, as the only force raised was one composed of the Weenen Volunteer Force, however, as distinct from the Volunteer Mounted Burgher Force,and enrolled under different conditions in regard to service, continued in existence. In 1873 the Volunteer Force formed part of Sir T. Shepstones escort at the installationof the Zulu king Cetshwayo, and later in that year, together with the Weenen burghers, tooka prominent part in the expedition sent against Langalibalele. The disturbances giving riseto this expedition exemplied the necessity for the maintenance of a permanent force trained tothe use of arms, and available for service in any part of the Colony. The necessity had,indeed, been recognised as far back as 1861, when a Select Committee recommended theorganisation of a mounted police force of 100 men on the model of the Cape Police, butnothing definite was effected until 1874. In that year
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