South Africa.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3626, 20 March 1906, Page 2

South Africa.

THE NATIVE TROUBLE.

London, March 17.

Mr John Ward, a labor member, inquired whether noufiscation of the Kaffir tribe’s land, also the allegation of the arbitrary procedure, was meant to compel them to sell their labor cheap. Mr Winston Churchill _ promised an inquiry and reminded Mr Ward of the situation in Natal, which had not ceased to be one of emergency to the whole white population. He added that the colony was in enjoyment of complete responsibe self-govern-ment.

Capetown, March 17.

The Cape Times states that if Mr Winston Churchill’s mischievious threat to interfere with the Transvaal Government in its ultimate decision is anything beyond stage thunder, in a few years no colonial will resist “cutting the painter.” [Mr Churchill’S statement was as follows Once the Transvaal became a self-governing colony the Motherland would fix a date to terminate the existing labour ordinance, and would then consider whether fresh proposals might be made by the Transvaal Government. . The Imperial Government would decidedly veto such proposals if necessary, no matter how great the majority supporting them. He thought the chance of the Transvaal framing acceptable proposals was not at all a good one.’’

MR CHURCHILL’S SPEECH^

AN AUSTRALIAN OPINION; London, March 18.. Reuter’s Johannesburg correspondent says that Mr Winston Churchill’s speech caused great indignation. It is described in more than one quarter as an insult to the colony. Pietermaritzburg, Mar 18. The Times of Natal declares Mr Churchill’s sinister insistence ou the whole of South Africrf The principle underlying Mr. Churchill’s policy is rotten and vicious. The Liberals are a g reater menace to the Empire than ever. .r 1 Bloemfontein, March 18. Delegates of thirteen branches of Boer Unions at Oraugia have cabled to Earl Elgin a protest ■ against Lord Milner’s speech in the House of Lords. Capetown, March 18. The Transvaal press fiercely resents- Mr Winston Churchill’s speech as a gratuitous insult to every self-governing colony. The Johannesburg Star remarks that the arbitrary disallowance of coViial legislation introduces a most serious element of instability into the relations of Motherland and colonies. Paris, March 18. The French shareholders are incensed at the outcry of the Radicals against Chinese and declare the threat to abolish the coolies has depreciated values in South African shares by .£24,000,000 in two months, causing a loss to French shareholders of j£B ( - 000,000. London, March 18, Mr F. A. Govett, chairman of the Ivanhoe Gold Corporation, Western. Australia, in a letter to .the Times with reference to Mr Churchill’s speech in the House of Commons comparing the Ivanhoe and Rand mines, states that , tre men were transported to the Rand, they would be able at the present rate of Australian wages • to maintain and perhaps reduce the cost of mining on the Rand/ - Nevertheless the Chinese were" necessary on the Rand bhcause there vyere not enough blacks and efficient white labor was not obtainable.