SOUTH AFRICA

Evening Star, Issue 13014, 8 January 1907, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICA

INTERNAL DISSENSIONS. i Dress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, January 7.

... Mr R. K. Loveday, formerly a member cf tho Executive of the National Association, speaking at Barberton,,..explained that he had quitted, the ranks of the Nationalists, because the latter, on the eve of the issue of the letters patent granting the Transvaal its Constitution, -wrecked tho proposed protest of all parties, including the Boers, against the reservations contained in tho Constitution. An opportunity of showing Lewd Elgin (the Colonial Secretary) that the Transvaalers Were united in opposing interference with their domestic off aim was lost. MINE-OWNERS’ THREAT. WILL SINK NO MORE CAPITAL. ' MUST HAVE" CHINESE. LONDON, January 7. (Received January 8, at 8.27 a.m.) Reuter’s correspondent at Johannesburg telegraphs that Sir Q. H. Farrar (member of the Transvaal Legislative Council and president of the Chamber of Mines), in the course of a speech at Bohsbuig, warned the Transvaal that tho highest financial authorities on tho Continent declare that if the Rand’s labor supply is tampered -with they will not sink another penny in the mines, and will remove what capital they havo already invested. As tho natives worked only six months out of twenty-four months, 140,000 >voniid be required to replace the 60,000 Chinese laborers now on tho Band. Ho anticipated 1 an increase in the labor-saving apparatus now in nee in the mines. Sir George advocated the re-enactment of ’the Labor Importation Ordinance until an adequate native labor supply was available. He admitted that the Progressives intended to seek a revision of tho Constitution until the Transvaal’s political status was like that of Australia. A CHINESE SHIPMENT. TROUBLE FOR MR CHURCHILL. PIETERMARITZBURG, January 7. (Received January 8, at 8.21 am.) The steamer Cranley brought 2,129 coolies to Durban, though early in December Mr Winston Chnrdrill stated in tho House of Commons that only 1,000 were aboard, that number completing those to whom licenses had been issued.