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SOUTH AFRICA.
ABIATIO LABOUR QUBSTION.
LORD MILNER'S APPLICATIONS lOH INDIANS.
PUB PRIISB ABSOOIAf lOM Received 26, 515pm Cape Town, July 25,
An offcr has been received at Johannesburg from Haokiang to supply 200,000 Chinese labourers for tho Transvaal mines for the term of five yeira at 77s 6d per montb, which includes fuoi and wages. Lord M lner has nsked Mr Chamberlain to ioduo th? Government of India to allow tho Transvaal to import 10,000 Indian coo ies for the railway works in South Africa on conditim tint they returned at the expiry of their inden-Zf tures.
Mr OhamberUio, in reply, said it | would b< n'cessary to asc»rt«in publio feeling. It was improbable that Indian labour would bo available unless the
statutes concerning in foroe in the Transvaal were improved,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 175, 27 July 1903, Page 2
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135CABLE NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 175, 27 July 1903, Page 2
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