SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8066, 23 March 1906, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

EOYAL COMMISSION PBOPOSAL DEFEATED IN COMMONS. Keeoived 22, 10,16 p.m. LoxDoft, March 23. In tho House of Commons Mr Chamberlain raised a discission ou the necessity of a Boyal Commission of inquiry inlo the economic and moral effects of indentured labor in the Trans* vaal Ho sajd the (Government's polioy will koep the question open for at least four years. It was unfair to keep a sword of Dambi-lqi hanging over miuo owners, The, present hysterical paroxysm of morality benefited no one, and the storm of indignation browing in South Africa was eortain to spread to other Colonics. Yet on the maintouauce of good relations with the Colonies tho contjnuanco of tho Em. piro depended. , ' Mr Winston ChurcjhiU declared it was no use appointing'] a Commission. Lord Selbornc admitted improper, and illegal practice had prevailed in connection with the treatment of coolies. If the conjunction between cosmopolitan capital and the immense reservoirs of Asiatic labor became permanent, a deadly blow would be struck a; the pillars of European civilization. The Government entertained the most sincere aspect for tranditions of self government, which would always he the uuard rails of tho Liberal's Colonial policy. Mr Chamberlain's motion was defeated by tlif majority of 260.

THE LATE DOER WAK. ALLOTTING THE COMPENSATION. Hccoivcd 22, 9.13 a.m. Capetown, March 22, The Transvaal "War Compensation Commission cxamiued eighty Cvc tliousand claims, aggregating "'Sty two million sterling, besides two and a ualf millions for military receipts. Of tlio nine and a -half million sterling provided b/the Imperial Government for the settlement of olainn, five millions have been allotted fo the Orange Colony and the balance to the Transvaal,