SOUTH AFRICA

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10631, 9 May 1912, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association — By "Eleo-. trie Telegraph — Copyright.)

SHARES ..UNION. t (Received Last Nig* I *' ®' ls O^ock.) CAPETOWN, Msf £ ' , The Government Jias proposed a r quarter per centum tax on the valua of all interest bearing shares in companies which are incorporated inside or outside the Union, which companies to be empowered to recover front the holders the inclusion of companies incorporated outside the Union. It is also intended to encompass iholdera who transfer their Soulth African fob Wings to a London company in order to escape death duties. The Government proposes to grant partial relief, if the major portion of the companies in business are outside the Union,

MONSTER PETITION;.

INCREASED POLICE FORCE.

IMPORTATION OF DOMESTICS.

Last Night, 9.15 o'clock.) CAPETOWN, May 8. A petition containing 51,093 signatures bias been presented to the Assembly praying for increased poKce r the establishment of compounds where natives may keep their wives, arid a!so> facilities for training native female servants, and tthe importation of European domestics. INQUIRY COMMISSGN. REFUSED BY GOVERNMENT. (Received Last Nagfot, 9.15 o'clock.) CAPTOWN, May 8. The Government Hias refused Generat Smuitts' demand for a Commission t» inquire into the increased prevalence: of rape and "assault with intent.