SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1903, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

DELAGOA HARBOUR. THE LOANSb. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Lisbon, January 20. The Po.tugue'o Government has submitted to the Cortes a Bill providing for the completion of the harbour at D B iy and tha construction of railways as far as Swaziland. London, January 21. The St. James Gazette says that financiers consider that a loan for thirty-five tnill onf at thr.fe per cent, will ba tai-.ei a*; the ecd of February and the first ins'alment of a four p< r cent war loan in January, 1904.

THE LABOUR QUESTION. Cape Town, January 20, Mr O. Leonard, President of the Johannesburg National TJnioa, reftrriog to tho native question, siid he thought that Mr Chamberlain intended the Transvaal to work out its own salva'ion, regardless of Exeter Hall or the British colonies. His native policy was eminently calculated to increase the union of Briton and Boer. London, January 20. Beuter's agoacy states thit tbe Bind newspapers admit that Mr Ok amberlain has destroyed the Chinese legend. Many leading men in {' be Band advocate the introduction of cheap Italian and Spanish labour to raise tbe proportion of whites.

PL AGUE AT DURBAN. Received 22, 0.29 a.m. Cape Town, Janu ry 21. Nne Kaffirs, three Indian?, and one European are suffering from plague at Durban,