TRANSVAAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8327, 9 January 1907, Page 5

TRANSVAAL.

PROGRESSIVE PARTY. Received January 8, 8.27 a.m. LONDON, January 7. Reuter's correspondent at Johannesburg telegraphs ithat Sir G. H. Farrar, the chairrrt&n of the East Rand Proprietary Mines, and a me tuber of the Transvaal Legislature, in the course of a speech at Boksburg, warned the 'tflransvaal that the highest financial authorities on the Continent declare that if the labour supply of the Rand is tampered with they will not sink another penny in the mines, and will remove what capital they have already invested. As the natives worked only six months out of twenty-four months, two hundred and forty thousand would be required, said the speaker, to replace the sixty thousand Chinese labourers now on the Rand. He anticipated an increase in laboursaving apparatus in the mines. Sir George Farrar advocated a reSnactmeot Qf the labour importation ordinance until adequate native labour was available. He admitted that the Progressives intended to seek a revision of the Constitution until the Transvaal's political status was like that of Australia. ANOTHER SHIPLOAD OF COOLIES. Received January 8, B.SO a.m. PIETERMARITZBURG, Jan. 7. The steamer Cranley has arrived at Durban with 2,129 Chinese coolies for the Rand mines, though early in December Mr Winston Churchill stated , that there were only a thousand on board, completing the number for whom licenses were issued.