Issue number 13
December 1983

Contents Page EDITORIAL 5 REPRINTS Praying for Rain: A Sermon preached by Bishop Colenso Ekukanyeni in 1857 7 14 ARTICLE A Remarkable Survey: The Natal Scene at Union W.H. Bizley 22 ARTICLE The Historical Image of King Cetshwayo of Zululand: A Centennial Comment Charles Ballard 29 ARTICLE 'Natal literature': A Scrap of History and a Glance at some Poems Colin Gardner 43 ARTICLE The Oldest Houses in Pietermaritzburg R. W. Brann and Robert F. Haswell 67 ARTICLE The Colenso Cases: A Perspective of Law in Nineteenth Century Natal P.R. Spiller 76 OBITUARIES   Dr E.G. Malherbe 85 Miss D.D. Tshabalala 87 Neville Nuttall 90 NOTES AND QUERIES J.M.Deane 92 BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES 106 SELECT LIST OF NATAL PUBLICATIONS J. Farrer 117 REGISTER OF RESEARCH ON NATAL J. Farrer 118 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS T.B. Frost 120