SOUTH AFRICA.
THE TRANSVAAL ELECTIONS. % JOHANNESBURG, February 15. The Miners' Union of Johannesburg complains that the refusal of Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of South Africa, to proclaim a holiday on polling day will disfranchise the mine workers, many of whom work forty miles from the electoral division in Which they are registered. The Union has asked Lord Elgin, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to intervene. Received February 17, 5.46 p.m. LONDON, February 16. Lord Elgin, in harmony with a deputation of British Indians from the Transvaal that waited upon him, said he disallowed the Transvaal legislature's Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance for the registration of all Asiatics and the expulsion of those who were unable to prove they were lawfully resident in the colony. The Earl of Selbourne favoui-ed the Ordinance. Lord Elgin, while sanctioning the Vrededorp Stands Ordinance disagreed with the restrictions preventing Indians from holding land. The Westminster Gazette says that Lord Elgin's decision regarding the registration of all Asiatics will tend to educate the Transvaal to a fuller sense of its part of a great Empire of many races.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8361, 18 February 1907, Page 5
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182SOUTH AFRICA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8361, 18 February 1907, Page 5
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