SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 37, 13 February 1904, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

A PROTEST FROM LONDOX. LONDON, Feb. 11. En* Oa;niiigton prrsidi'd at a litum. piilhli:- I :-e:i,g held in the Queen's Hall. Loii.-lon. to protest labour in Sonnli Africa. Sir William V. narcourL, in a Idler appolegising for Iris absence, proposed against, the estaiiihs-iimrnt of a condition of serfdom in the Transvaal, which would l.e calculated to lower tile proud title of a British colony in the estimation of the world. Tne future of the colony was being sui-nliccd (o impatient dii-cul for geld on ihe part of speculators, aim I it was impossible in contemplate such a reactionary policy without indignation and distrust. Karl Parrinlgioii said il was necessai'v that, an act should he thought out Imperially, lie recall. 1 New South Wales' action in I.SHH ill resislnig' the landing of coolies at Sir 'T. F. Buxton moved a resolution protesting" against the importation of the Chinese without the foni'al consent of the people of Hit! colony. The (|',ue«t ion was not purely local but also Imperial. The motion was carried lyAMNION IN SOUTH AFRICA. (Received Feb. IH. 1.12 u.m.) LONDON, Fob. 12. I'eplviiiM to a .otiestion the Marquis of Hipon. In the House of Lords said 'lie was confident that general opinion i" South Africa favoured the employment of Chinese. The Ai-chhiehop of CunterfiurT said there was a d'anger of such a pol'ey developi'off serious moral and social ovils. CAPE COLONY IJI.I-'.CTIONS. A GOYEUXUEXT DEFEAT. (Received Feb. l.'l. 1.10 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Feb. 12. I'p to tho present 5)4 Progressives, and 27 Bond candidates have teen elected. Sir Gordon Sprigg (Premier), Hon. A. Douglas (Commissioner for Public Works) and Mr Men im a n were duf-ctvtid. Hon. T. W. Sinartf '(a former Commissioner for Public Works) was elected.