SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8084, 14 April 1906, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

LAND SETTLEMENT. GOVERNMENT ALITE TO THE SITUATION. i Received 12, 10-51 a.m. London, April 12.

In the House of Commons, Mr Win. ston Churchill, in reply to Sir Gilbert Parkes, said the Government was fully alive to the importance of the question of land settlement in the Transvaal and Orangia, and would carefully consider any soneme proposed. Sir C. Bidgway's committee would go into feasible arrangements to prevent the possible dispossession of new settlers.

IMPEOVED GOVEENMENT TONE. Received 12, 9.38 a.m. London, April 12. The " Times" notes the improve, mcut in the Government's tone regarding South African affairs generally.

ILL-TBEATMENT OP COOLIES. London, April 11. i Keuter's Pretoria correspondent reports that the Superintendant of the Foreign Labour Department was fined £lO for contempt of Court in failing to produce Likuyu, a Chinese police lergcant at the Croesus mine, on a charge of cruelty to coolies. The Superintendent ordered Likuyu to be repatriated, and eventually he was sent to Durban for that purpose. Pending his departure, and while detained here, he was not permitted to see the Chinese Consul, his solicitor, or friends. Hence the application for a writ of habeas corpus.

BOER LEADERS AND THE CONSTITUTION. Capetown, April 11. The Boer leaders, believing that Mr Churchill's speecch implies manhood suffrage, are now reminding the Bund Labour Party that the Kruger Government was their only friend, and are making fierce attacks on the mining industry and the capitalists, declaring that the latter are trying to produce artificial depression in order to seoure political domination, half provincial and two-thirds city.