SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1919, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

6i9?6s'iTloN TO NATIONALIST MOVEMENT. (Received May IG, 9.35 p.m. Capetown, May 15. The Cape Provincial Council has passed a resolution unanimously that the present movement for the disruption of the union and the severance of the connection between South Africa and Britain is opposed to the best interests and welfare of South Africa. INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE. Received May 10, 9 35 p.m. Capetown, May 15. The South African Industrial Federation Congress, sitting at Bloemfontein, received a telegram from the Minister of Mines and Industries stating that the Government is considering the summoning of a conference of employers and workers to discuss the question of hours and wages and general conditions in the various industries". A draft of the scheme has been prepared, and the Government desired the support and views of Congress. A MERCHANT FLEET. Received May IG, 7.35 pm. Capetown, May 15. Pretoria messages say a scheme has been mooted —and is believed to be sympathetically regarded by the Government —to establish the nucleus of a South African merchant fleet by salving several vessels lying along the coast, and by asJcing Britain to assign to South Africa ships condemned by the local prize courts. Aua. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ASIATIC RESTRICTIONS. Received May 16, 8.30 p m. Capetown, May 8. /V select committee of the Assembly, which inquired into the disabilities of British Indians in the Transvaal, has recommended that all legal existing trade rights in certain mining areas he recognised, but no further trading licenses or the opening of new businesses be allowed to Indians or other Asiatics. The committee also recommends immediate legislation providing that tho existing prohibition against acquiring landed property be extended to any company in which the controlling interest belongs to Asiatics. A WIN FOR LABOR. Received May 10, 8.30 tm, Capetown, May S. The municipal elections in Johannesburg to fill vacancies caused by resignations in connection with the recent labor troubles resulted in the return of eight Laborites and cne Democratic Independent. GERMANS REPATRIATED. Received May 1(1, 8,35 p.m. Durban, May 8. About a hundred recalcitrant prisoners from the German concentration camp at Maritsburi; have been shipped to Europe under a strong guard.—Aus. X.Z. Cable Assoc, THE COLOR BAR. Received May 17, 12.45 a.m. Capetown, May 7. The Labor Conference at Bloemfontein, discussing the color bar, disclosed the deepest differences on the question, the Transvaalers strongly adhering to the attitude of excluding natives from skilled trades.—Reuter. MINES CLOSING DOW. j Received May 17, 12, 45 a.m. , | Capetown, May 7. The secretary of the Federation of Trades stated that within six' months three mines on the Rand, employing 1500 whites, are closing down, and twelve others will have to follow suit. His executive is negotiating with the Government with a view to a settlement of the industrial unrest. <k