CONCERNING SOUTH AFRICA.

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 January 1903, Page 4

CONCERNING SOUTH AFRICA.

The Labor Problem.

[per press association—-copyright.] Capetown, January 17. The Indians employed at the Koffyfontein mine found the work too hard and returned to Kimberley. London, January 17.

The Speotatorjsuggests that no Chinese should be imported during the British Trusteeship ”of the Transvaal. The decision in (lie matter had better be left to the autonomous Government. Mr Copeland, interviewed by the Daily Chronicle, said that one European miner was worth five Chinese. The action of the Rand capitalists was contemptible. English and Australian workmen helped to save the mines, and it wa? now proposed to hand their legitimate employment to a horde of barbarians. If Chamberlain consented to their importation it wou’d far outweigh all the good he ever had done >ftnd would embitter the whole of Ausiralia and Canada, and make them avowed enemies of himself and the Imperial policy. Capetown, Jan 18.

Mr Chamberlain, speaking at the Johannesburg banquet, suggested that tha Imperial Government should appoint a Eoyal Commission to investigate the labor question. His expectations regarding his reception were fully realised. He was much impressed with his interviews with leading Boers and just and generous treatment would remove all animosities and prejudices. The virile qualities of their laro brave opponents would be the strength of the nation.