SOUTH AFRICA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7999, 20 March 1906, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

MR CHURCHILL'S SPEECH. A GRATUITOUS INSULT. Received March IP, 8.51 a.m. CAPETOWN, March 18. Ihfl Transvaal press fiercely resents Mr Churchill's speech as a Gratuitous insult to every self-govern-ing colony. The Johannesburg Star remarks that the arbitrary disallowance of colonial legislation would introduce a most serious element of instability into the relations between the Motherland and the colonies. THE AGITATION AGAINST CHINESE COOLIES. DISGUSTED FRENCH SHAREHOLDERS. Received Maroh 19, 8.51 a.m. PARIS, March 18. French shareholders are incensed at the outcry of the British Radicals against Chinese labour on the Rand. They declare that the threat to abolish coolies has depreciated the values of Sourh African shares by £24,000,000 iu two months, causing a loss to French shareholders of £B, COO, 000. STATEMENT BY A WESTRALIAN MINE-OWNER.

Received March 19, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, March 18. Mr F. A. Govett, Chairman of the Ivanboe Gold Corporation in Western Australia, in a letter to The Times regarding Mr Winston Churohill's speech in the House of Commons, comparing the Ivanhoe and Rand Minos, states that if the staff and men of the Ivanhoe Mine were transplanted to the Rand, they would be able, at the present rate of Australian wages, to maintain and perhaps reduce the cost of mining on the Rand. Nevertheless, says Mr Govett, Chinese are necessary on the Rand, because there are not enough blacks and efficient white labour obtainable.