Sir Garnet Wolseley's instructions to the two Residents ap- pointed
to watch the new Chiefs in Zululand have been published, and show that the system adopted is not exactly annexation.
The Residents are to give advice to the Chiefs, but are not to give orders, but report anything of which they disapprove to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal or to the High Commissioner. They are to mark out the boundaries of the petty States, pre- ferring where possible rivers, but disturbing old boundaries as little as possible. They are to collect all the King's brothers in John Dunn's dominion, where they will be looked after ; to take all Cetewayo's cattle, and to confiscate everybody's fire-arms. They are absolutely to prevent the sale of land to white men,. and to " exercise constant vigilance " that the promises made by the British Government upon this subject to the native chiefs are rigidly kept. Missionaries, if asked for by the chiefs, may enter Zululand ; but they must not hold land, and the Residents must hold themselves entirely aloof from them. Those rules are not unwise, but in practice the Residents will very soon make it understood that their advice must be taken, and we shall be surprised if, ten years hence, a very considerable amount of Zulu land is not the property of Zulus who are the agents and trustees for white settlers. It takes more than a law to defeat the land-hunger of a dominant race.
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