SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1903, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

WAB CONTRIBUTIONS. PIS PBEB3 ASSOCIATION. London, January 16. Though Mr Chambirhin has postponed his official announcement respecting the tax of thirty millions on the Transvaal towards the cost of tbe war, a meeting of tha heads of Bouth African mining hemes in London approved that figure. Payment is to be mide in three annual instalments. The meeting guaranteed ten millions in ten minute*. Received 18,4.45 p a. Caps Town, January 17. The Indians at Koffyfontein found the work too hard aod returned to Kimberley.

CHINESB LABOUR. Btceived 18, 5 p.m. London, Jaauary 17. TbeiSjuectotorsnggegtßthatno Chinese should be imported dnring the British tru iter ship of the Transvaal, the decision on the matter bsing better left to an autonomous Government. THE LABOUR QUESTION. MR. COPELAND'S VIEWS. ROYAL COMMISSION PROPOSED. Received 19,1 35 a.m. Lohdon, January 18. Mr Opelajd, interviewed by the Daily Chronicle s.id <hat one European miner was wor b five Chinese. The action of the R-»nd capitalists was contemptible, as English and Aus tralian workmen had helped to pave the mines, and it was now proposed to hand their legitimate employment to a hirda of barbarians. If Mr Cbamberlai* cor sen td to the importation, it would Ur outweigh i.ll the gooi he h-d tver doc«( and'em-bittf-r the wh.,l« of Australia and C'nirla and make them 1 vowed o? himself iin ! of l is I >np ml p-!icy. Cape Tows, Jainary 18. Mr Obiiiu. cilnit., Kpi-uking at the Job.inr.vJrii'g ' imj'i r, t.h-^fc the riuj.fr*i i 1 I'jvi-.i nmeij*: sho'jM iippoiot. ■> H",\ tl Cora'diKri'oa on the labonr qupstbn.