SOUTH AFRICA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8104, 26 March 1906, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE NA'IIVE DISTURBANCE. AN INDUNA COURTMARTIALLED. SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE GIVEN. Reoeived March 24, 4.45 p.m. LONDON, Maroh 24. The induna Uinzinto, of the Chi§f Rynn, has been oourtmartialled. Sensational evidence was elicited, showing that only the magistrate's tact and presence of mind averted a serious catastrophe. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF THE TRANSVAAL. LONDON, March 23. Sir Riohard Solomon has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal. Mr H. F. Blaine succeeds Sir Richard Solomon as Attorney-General of the Transvaal. (Prior to* being appointed Attor-ney-General, Sir Riohard Solomon was legal adviser to the Transvaal Administration, and to Lord Kitchener). THE REPRESENTATION OF THE TRANSVAAL AND ORANGIA. THE BASIS QUESTION. WHAT THE. H.ETVOLK WANTS. Reoeived March 25, 4.12 p, m LONDON, March 24. Sir West Ridgeway's Committee has been instructed to report with the utmost despatch and effect upon the representation of the Witwatersrand towns,outside of the Witwatersrand. and in regard to the purely local distriots, tbe divisiori of the Transvaal into 60 single members' constituencies, according to different bases of representation; to inquire and to report on the effeot of substituting manhood suffrage for the qualification embodied in Clause 3 of the Letters Patent, 1905, to consider and report on any proposals for thu representation of urban or rural interests, other than the division into single membeied divisions; it is, also, instructed to consider to what extent the "census of 1904 is unreliable in regard tu some localities, and tha possibility of adopting a workable estimate, and to make similar inquiries regarding Orangia; also, to study the proposals discussed at the oonference of leaders of various parties, and finally the Committee is instructed to consider if the suggestion of manhood suffrage, coupled with a larger marginal discretion of the delimitation of divisions, might materially modify the situation, and tmd to make the constitution generally more acceptable, and, if manhood suffrage is approved of, to place on the voters' roll certain classes, whose admission, especially in the oa es of youqger farmers, is desirable.

A meeting at Pretoria carried a resolution that only representation on a population basis would satisfy the Hetvolk.