SOUTH AFRICA.

Evening Star, Issue 12765, 19 March 1906, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. FUTURE OF THE TRANSVAAL. BLOEMFONTETN, March 17. . The delegates from thirteen branches of the Boer Union in Orangia cabled to Lord Elgin (Colonial Secretary) protesting against Lord Milner's speech in the Hoafie of Lords. CAPE TOWN, March 17. A Congress at Ceres resolved to convene a conference with a-view to drawing nearer the Het Voik and other similar organisations. CHINESE ON THE RAND. MR CHURCHILL'S SPEECH. LONDON, March 18. Kaffir shares have improved in London on the strength of the suggested importation of Indian coolies, which, now that former obstacles have been removed, is a possible alternation to Chinese labor. Mr Winston Churchill, in a* letter to a. correspondent, denies that the depreciation in mining shares is due to the Government's policy. He attributes it to. pessimistic orations and criticisms of Mr Balfour and Mr Chamberlain, and to Mr Chainberlains change of attack on tho Government, as compared with liis attitude in the earlier part of the session. Renter's Johannesburg correspondent says that Mr Churchill's speech has caused great indignation, and is described in more than one quarter as an insult to the colony. The 'Times,' of Natal, declares that Mr Churchill's sinister insistence on the word "veto" will affect not only the Transvaal, but the whole of South Africa, and that the principle underlying Mr Cfaurchill's policy is rotten and vicious. Tho Liberals are a greater menace to the Empire than ever. NATAL NATIVE RISING. NIPPED IN THE BUD. CAPE TOWN, March 17 At Pietermaritzburg Mr Watt, Minister of Defence for Natal, in the course of an address of welcome on the return of the Militia to Maritzburg, said that the native insurrection had been nipped in the bud. Several powerful tribes had planned a general rising, but the premature outbreak at Richmond enabled the Government to successfully deal with the disaffection in detail. AN INDIGNANT PRESS. MUCH HEATED TALK. CAPE TOWN, March 18. (Received March 19, at 8.51 a.m.) The Transvaal Press fiercely resent Mr Churchill's speech as a gratuitous insult to every self-governing colony. The Johannesburg 'Star' remarks that the arbitrary disallowance of colonial legislation will introduce a most serious element of instability in the relations of the Motherland and the colonies. FRENCH INVESTORS INDIGNANT. PARIS, March 18. (Received March 19, at 8.51 a.m.) French shareholders are incensed at the outcry" of the Radicals against the Chinese, and declare that the threat to abolish coolies has depreciated the values of South African shares by £24,000,000 in two months, causing a loss to French shareholders of £8,000,000. A COMPARISON CRITICISED. LONDON, March 18. Mr F. A." Govett, chairman of the Ivanhoe Gold Corporation of Western Australia, in a letter to 'The Times' in reference to Mr Churchill's speech in the House of Commons comparing the Ivanhoe and Rand mines, states that if the staff of the Ivanhoe and men were transplanted to the Rand they would be able at the present rate of Australian wages to maintain and perhaps reduce the cost of mining on the Rand. Nevertheless, he says Chinese are necessary on the Rand, because there are not enough blacks ,and because efficient white labor is not obtainable.