AFRICAN NATIVE POLICY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8057, 5 March 1906, Page 2

AFRICAN NATIVE POLICY.

CHURCHILL'S SPEECH DE. NOUJfCED. THE COUNTRY ALARMED. THE LIBERAL CABINET'S IGNORANCE. STOCK EXCHANGE DEPRESSED, Received I, <1,117 p.m. London, March 3. Winston Churchill's description o£ Lord Milncr's views is denounced in Johannesburg as huge misrepresents tiou, as shown by Lord Milner's speech when farowelling at Johannesburg, when he [pleaded for intelligent sym. pathy for the native policy. Milner's advocating the appointment of an intor-colonial commission for native affairs is also cited. "The Times'," Johannesburg corres. poudent says the country is beooming alarmed at the Cabinet's ignorance on all South African matters. The Premier makes im important statement on the Chinese labor, before he roads the Ordinance, while Winston Churchill attacks Miluer's native policy without knowing what it was. Lonis Botha, only a week ago, declared that Lord Milnor pardoned the Kaffirs and Indians at the expense of the Boers. Ihe " Telegraph's" Johannesburg correspondent emphasises the resent* nieut felt at Churchill's interference in a problem, which the whites, irrespective of race, regard as pecularily their own. In general, Colonial and especially Boer opiuion, considered Lord Milner's news regarding the further industrial, social, and political development of the colored raeos as dangerously advanced. The Stock Exchange is depressed owing to fear of the Government's policy in South Africa. All g*fli r shares have fallen considerably, and some are lower than for many years past. The duluess is reflected on other markets