SOUTH AFRICA

Evening Star, Issue 12585, 17 August 1905, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICA

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. GAPS TOWN, August 16. The animal meeting of the British Ainociotioa is being held here. It was opened amid much popular interest. The president (Mr Francis Darwin) sketched the attempts that had been mode to formulate evolutionary speculation, with special reference to the principle of natural selection. AN ANTICIPATED DENIAL. A SLANDERER EXPOSED. LONDON- August 16. Tse Tsu Sham, late Chinese adviser and interpreter in the East Rand mines, recently sent the ‘Daily Chronicle’ some circumstantial stories regarding ill-treatment of coolies on the Rand. Mr BolJ, M.P., wrote to the Right Hon. Mr Lyttelton inquiring about tie matter, and Mr Lyttelton, in reply, quoted documentary evidence erpcedng Tsu Shan’s antecedents. He added that allegations from such a source were unworthy of ißreadgation. TSE TSU CHAN’S ANTECEDENTS. NOTHING BAD SO FAB. SYDNEY, August 17. (Received August 17, at KXS7 a.m) H» Tsu Oban, who is figuring in connection with the alleged ill-treatment of Chinese in the Band mines, is a native of this State. He left here eighteen years ago, and went to London, and afterwards prosecuted inquiries as to Die treatment of Chinese m various parts of the British damhaons.