SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8062, 19 March 1906, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE GOVERNMENT POLICY. INDIGNATION IN THE COLONIES. "A MENACE TO THE EMPIRE." Received 18, 4.1 a p.m. London, Murcli 17. Winston Churchill, in a letter to a correspondent, denies that the depreciation of shares was due to the Government policy. He attributes it to Balfour's and Chamberlain's pessimistic orations and criticisms, and to Chamberlain shifting the ground of attack as compared with the earlier part of the session. Reuter's Johannesburg correspondent says Churchill's speech has eaused great indignation, and is described in more than one quarter as an insult to the colony. PIETEBHABITZBI* £0, March 17. The "Times" of Natal declares that Churchill's sinister insistence on the word' veto,' affects, besides the Transvaal, the whole of South Africa. The principle underlying Churchill's policy is rotten and vicious, and the Liberals are a greater menace to the Empire than ever. A BOER PROTEST. AFRICANDER BOND CONFERENCE. UNITING POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS. Received IS, 1.15 p.m. Blokmfontkin, March 17. Delegates of thirteen branches of the Boer Uuiou of Oraugia cabled to Lord Elgin a protest at Lord Milner's speech in the House of Lords. Capetown, March 17. The Africander Bond Congress at Ceres resolved to conveue a conference with a view to drawing closer the Hetvolk and other similar organisations EMPLOYMENT OF INDIAN COOLIES. SHARES RECOVERING. London, March 17. Received 18, <1.30 p.m. Kaffir shares have improved in London on the suggested importation of Indian coolies, now that the former obstacles have been removed. " CUTTING THE PAINTER." Capetown, March lfi. The " Cape Times" states that if Mr Churchill's mischievous threat to interfere with the Transvaal Government in the ultimate decision, is anything beyond stage thunder, in a few years no colonial will resist the " cutting of the painter."