SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8063, 20 March 1906, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

F * CHURCKIL'S FAMOUS SPEECH..** i i WHOLESALE COi&DKMNATION, X Capetown-, March 18. The Transvaal press fiercely resents Mr Churchill's speech as a gratuitous insult to every self.gbycrniu3 colony. , • The Johannesburg Star rcmarb that the arbitrary disallowanco of colonial legislation woull introduce a most serious element and cause inita* bility of the relations botween tho Motherland and the colonies. Mr F. A. Govot*, Chairman of tho Ivanhoc Gold Westom Australia, in a letfe'to llw "Times" m in Mr Churchill's speech in the House of Commons .comparing the Ivanhoe and Rand, Mies, states that if the staff of the rlvanuV and the men transported to the band they would, bo able,. at -present Ani* tralian wages, to maintain, and perhapj' reduce, the cost of mining on "tie Rand. Nevertheless, Chinese necessary on the Rand because were not enough blackv and white labour was not obtainable. , Pams. March 16. . French shareholders afe incensed at'ijt s ' tho outcry of tho Radicals against, f-v the Chinese, and declare that the "V/j threat, to abolish coolies has depre- ' ' eiated values of South African shares by £24,000,000 jn two months, causing a loss to French shsiyholders of £8,000,000. CHAMBERLAIN'S SCATHING i CRITICISM. J Received 19, 9.25 p.m. Londok, March 19. Mr Chamberlniu, in n letter to^^B

"The Times," replying lo Winston 1 "- Churchill's attacks, compared him to a political turvcydrop, Ho condemned <« us farsical tlie Oppositions' statement thai the importation of Chinese was repugnant to morality. Finding a pig. tail section of the party dissatisfied ' with the decision to throw the ultimate responsibility of continuingor abolishing - ■'' the system upon tho new Transvaal *»jGovernment, Mr Churchill now an. '.'•% nounccs a policy of intervention, whioh *' was unconstitutional, ineonsistant with Liberal insulting to the ' ' colonies, and provoking.a serious conflict botween the "Motherland and the first colony subjected to this new as- .' sertiou .of Imperial authority, which * expected a State possessing responsible Government to communicate measure* . ■> ■ lo the Colonial Ollice beforehand, with \' t the possibility of veto. * '~\