Chinese in South Africa.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxii, Issue 6657, 25 August 1905, Page 4

Chinese in South Africa.

Qa the subject; of Chinese in Sovith Africa, Mr K. L Outhwaite, tho candidate who intonds to oppose Mr Joseph Chainberlaia, at noxt election, writes as follows to the "Westminster Grazotto": — Considerable Attention has bten. devoted by the Pre.-s to tho arrival ia the TranHV<ial of tho High '"ommssionur uppoiatel by his Majesty King Kdward Vil. Little attention, howevjr, has been giv^n to th« f-ict that there has juafc arrivo'd in tho Transvaal a more important official, in ths person of the Consul Geuor-dl appointed by the Dowager Empres.B of Chiup. Lord Selborne may exert sonn influence on tho destinies of the Transvaal, but probably this Chineso Consul Goneral has power of life and death ovor more th.in 40,000 men in the Transvaal, for woe betide the wretch he may condemn to be sent back to be dealt with in his native lind. A thousand serfs have jmt been returned to China, some, it it said, for rioting. It would be interesting to know if any are to ba subjected to the slicing process on arrival. However, without lifting the veti, and peering too inquisitively into the chirabor of primitive horrors that may await those culprits, it is Buiii'iifißfciy apparent to anyone with a knowledge of Oriental methods that tho immediate destiny of the Transvaal is more in the control of the Chinese Consul Gaaeral than in that of the British High Coonaisßioner. Ab<3 this is Imperialism,