THE TREATMENT OF CATHOLICS IN THE TRANSVAAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 11 January 1900, Page 4

THE TREATMENT OF CATHOLICS IN THE TRANSVAAL.

In our last issue we gave an extract from a letter written by a priest in South Africa contradicting the statement of Dr. Leyds that Catholics were not unjustlyj ustly treated by the Transvaal Government. A communication in the Daily Mail from ' a Pretorian ' shows what little reliance can be place! on Dr. Leyds' statements. The writer says :— ' I notice a letter of Dr. W. J. Leyds, addressed to Mr. William Redmond, M.P., wherein he denies that the Government of the South African Republic makes a rule of refusing the appointment of Roman Catholics to hold office of any kind under that Government. Dr. Leyds knows perfectly well that when vacancies to any office under the Transvaal Government are open, and notioe to applicants is given in the Staats Courant (Government Gazette') for that purpose, in every such notice it is distinctly stated that applicants mußt be of the Protestant religion. Dr. Leyds has himself signed hundreds of these official notices, and his denial is only one more of those shameless lies whioh have lately so frequently been turned out by that factory of false news at Brussels presided over by the same Dr. Leyds.'