SOUTH AFRICA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1702, 19 March 1906, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

KAFFIR SHARES IMPROVE,

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. K csived 4 30 p.m„ Maroh 18. ■ London, March 17. Ksffir shares improved in London on the suggested importation of Indian oool'os, row that the former obstacles have been removed, QUESTION OP DEPRECIATION OF SHARES.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Assoaiation—Copyright. Received 4 45 p.m,, Maroh 18. London, March 17. Mr Churchill, in a letter to a correspondent, denies that the depreciation of shares was due to the Government's po'ioy, and attributes it to Mr Balfour and Mr Chamberlain's pessimistic orations and oritioisms and to Mr Obamberlain’s shifting ground of attack, as compared with the earlier part of the session,

OPINIONS ON MR CHURCHILL’S SPEECH,

By Electric Telegraph l —Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 4.45 p.m,, March 18,

London, Maroh 17. Reuter’s Johannesburg correspondent says that Mr Churchill's speech oaused great indignation, It was described in more than one quarter as an insult to the colony.

Pietermaritzburg, March 17. The Times of Natal declares that Mr Churchill’s sinister insistence on the word veto affects, besides the Transvaal, the whole of South Africa. The principle underlying Mr Churchill’s policy was rotten and vioioue. The Liberals were a greater menace to the Empire than ever, [ PROTEST AGAINST LORD MILNER’S SPEECH, I By, .telegraph* Pres* Asa’n,. Copyright Reoeived 4.45 p,m„ Maroh 18. Bloemfontein, Maroh 17, Delegates from thirteen branohes of the Boer Union in Orangia cabled to Lord Elgin a protest in regard to Lord Milner’s speech in the House of Lords.