OPENING OF TRANSVAAL PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 23 March 1907, Page 2

OPENING OF TRANSVAAL PARLIAMENT.

LATEST CABLE NEWS. UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEOUAPII.—COPrniOUT

IfUSISKSS C().M.M;i'S.VCIOD. THE LABOR ORDINANCE. STATEMENT OF CABINET'S VIEWS I'ITEII HOUSE OBSTRUCTIVE. Received 22m1, 10.14 p.m. Pretoria, March 22. T)i« Tmnxvanl LegiaUlive Assembly, after electing General Bevel's to the Speakership, proceeded to 1 lie I p]>f>' House, where 1.nr.l Nelbourne delivered the inaugural speech. lie announced that Ministers luid resolved that ilie importation of Chinese must eease at the eai'lest possible date, hut the present supply would not ltd repatriated until substitutes had Iteen found. Jf none were forthcoming, Die indentures watild he temporarily renewed. .Ministers, meanwhile, intended to da their utmost to increase the supply of Kallirs.

The Assembly passed the Ordinance, cabled yesterday, through all stages', the Opposition co-operating, and after the third reading the measure was senl to the Upper House. The Government wanted it settled forthwith. The Council was about 1o adjourn when Mr 11. C. Hull declared that unless the Bill was immediately passed, tlie Assembly would adjourn, anil thus wreck tlie Bill. il r Felt ham and others declared that the Council declined to lie riwlied in the consideration of the measure, and adjourned till to-day.

Received 22nd, 11.47 p.m. Pretoria, March 22. The salient feature of the Assembly's proceedings was the elTaeemint of .Mr. Botha, everything being left to Mr. Smuts, and secondly to Mr. Sehalkburgcr, other liners interpreting. It was insisted that the, ollicials of the House should speak Dutch; this after they had begun in English. PROPOSED RE-INST)ATEM(ENT! OF ORDINANCE. Pretoria, March 21. Mr Smuts intends to submit to the Transvaal Parliament for te-instate-inent the Asiatic ordinance which Lord Elgin (Secretary for the Colonies) disallowed. Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P., interviewed, saiil if, as he felt sure it would be, it were enacted, Lord Elgin would hardly venture again to disallow it, as 0!) out of every 100 whites in South Africa thoroughly approved of it.