SOUTH AFRICA.

Evening Star, Issue 12766, 20 March 1906, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE CHINESE ON THE RAND. MR CHAMBERLAIN’S RETORT. LONDON, March 19. Mr Chamberlain, in a letter to ‘The limes,’ replies to Mr Winston Churchill’s attacks, comparing him to a political Turveydrop. He condemns as pharisaical the statement that importing Chinese was repugnant to morality. Finding the “ Pigtail” section of his party dissatisfied with liia decision, Mr Churchill threw the ultimate responsibility of continuing or abolishing the system of indentured coolie labor upon the new Transvaal Government. Air Churchill next announced a policy of intervention which was unconstitutional, inconsistent with Liberal principles, insulting to the colonies, and would provoke a serious conflict between the Motherland and the first colony subjected to this new assertion of Imperial authority, which expected a State possessing responsible government to communicate a measure to the Colonial Office beforehand, until the possibility of it being vetoed by the Imperial Government. THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY. LONDON, March 19. (Received March 20, at 8.26 a.m.) The British South Africa Company report that for the year ended A larch, 1905, the expenditure was £898,748 and the revenue £641,342. For the year ending with the present month the expenditure is estimated at £772,655 and the revenue at £681,484. INDIAN COOLIES TO BE USED. CAPE TOWN, March 19. (Received March 20, at 8.35 a.m.) Advocates of tlte importation of Indian coolies for South Africa propose to employ them on railway construction, thus releasing the Kaffirs for the mines. The decision of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal Colony in May, ISO 4, redressed the grievances emphasised by the Indian Government regarding the status of Indians in the Transvaal when their importation was mooted in 1903.