TRANSVAAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8120, 14 April 1906, Page 5

TRANSVAAL.

CHINESE ON THE RAND.

LONDON, April 11.

Router's Pretoria correspondent reports that the superintendent of the Foreign Labour Department has been fined ten pounds for contempt of court i/i faihna to produce Likuyu, a Chinese police sergeant in the Croesus mine, on charges of cruelty to coolies. The euperintendeut ordered Likuyu to be repatriated eventually, aud to be sent to Durban for that purpose pending his departure. While detained here he was not permitted to see the Chinese Consul, solicitors, or his friends; hence the application for a writ of habeas corpus. BOER LEADERS AND THE CAPITALISTS. CAPETOWN, April 11. The Boer leaders, believing that Mr Winston Churchill's speech iu the House of Commons on the Transvaal Constitution implies manhood suffrage, are now reminding the Rand labour party that the Kruger Government was their only friend.

They are making\fleroe attacks on the mining industry and the capitalists, declaring that the latter are trying to produce artificial depression in order to procure political domination—half the provincial representation and two-thirds of the city.

THE X.AND QUESTION,

Received April 12, 10.S1 p.m. LONDON, April 12

In the House of Commons Mr Winston Churohill, in reply to Sir Gilbert Parker, said that the Government was fully alive to the importance of the question of land settlement in the Transvaal and Orapgia, and would carefully consider any scheme proposed. The Committee appointed would enquire with regard to the making of feasible arrangements to prevent the pbssble dispossession of new settlers.