TRANSVAAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7970, 22 February 1906, Page 5

TRANSVAAL.

THE BOERS WELL PLEASED. Received February 21, 8.30 a.m. CAPETOWN, February 20. At a meeting of Boers, held at Heilbron, in the Transvaal, exCommandants Hertzog and De Wet rejoiced at the new era likely to be inaugurated now that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman . was in office. General De Wet urged the suspension of the agitation for responsible government, so as to give the Liberals ft ohance of doing justice to the Boers. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN'S POLICY. NEWSPAPER CRITICISM. THE REPATRIATION OF . COOLIES. Received February 21, 9.8 p.m. CAPETOWN, February 21.

The Cape Argus declares that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's policy will disturb labour conditions Transvaal, and will plunge politics into confusion, and that it will arrest the trade and development of South Afrioa. .Repatriation of the coolies would bo a most monstrous act of interference. EARL OF SELBOURNE. DOES NOT FAVOUR REPATRIATION. MANY MORE COOLIES REQUIRED. Received February 22, 12.2 a.m. CAEPTOWN, February 21. The Earl of Felbourne, Governor of the Transvaal, iu an interview, said he welcomed the proposed Commission of Enquiry iuto the treatment of the Chinese ooolies on the . Rand. His Excellency states that the withdrawal of the cooiies would cause a grave industrial arisis and terrible distress. He believes the mines require fully another 110,000 labourers. The repatriation of Chinese would throw idle six thousand white miners, and whites indirectly dependent on the minosj as well as diminishing wages and local purohasos by £4,280,382 per year, besides injuring the revenue and causing a deficit of £870,000. "MAJUBA RETRIEVED." i ) Received February 21, 11.15 p.m. CAPETOWN, February 21. Boer organs declare that Majuba is retrieved Africanders have now set their hearts on a commonwealth like that of Australia. The British in Orange River Colony consider that the granting of responsible Government is risky, unsettling and precipitate.