SOUTH AFRICA

Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA

THE MARCH RISING. MIHEBS CONVICTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, August 10. (Received, August 12, sit 8.45 a.m:) One miner was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, and three wore convicted of homicide and sentenced to two and a-half to three years’ hard labor in connection with the shooting of natives during the March disturbances on the Rand.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE RHODESIA OFFER. NATIONALIST OPPOSITION. CAPE TOWN, August 10. (Received August 12, at 8.45 a.m.) l*ie Federal Council of the Nationalist Party, sitting at Bloemfontein, passed a resolution protesting against the policy_ of the Smuts Government regarding Rhodesia. ; also against the terms ottered to Rhodesia and the Chartered Company, on the grounds that Parliament was not consulted, that the representation was out of proportion to the population, that Rhodesia was granted rights which are not shared by the existing provinces, and that the financial burden imposed’on the Union was too heavy. The council proposed, by means of public meetings, to raise an agitation against the autocratic and unconstitutional attitude of the Government.— A and N.Z. Cable. DEPRESSION AND UNEMPLOYMENT. GOVERNMENT RETRENCHING. A former resident of Dunedin, writing from the Transvaal to friends in this city, says:—Things in South Africa are very bad at present. The strike kilted tracte unionism, and wages in consequence have fallen badly, particularly in the mines, while there is much unemployment everywhere. To remedy this the Government has begun a huge railway extension work, which is estimated to cost £2,000,000. One of these extensions is to Boshoek. The pruning knife is being very freely used on the tree of education.. Teachers recently suffered a 5 per cent, reduction in salary, and this, they say, is only a preliminary to further and later reductions. Uncertificated teachers have also had a large slice cut off their salaries, and an accompanying reduction announcement say that if they axe unwilling to accept the vastly reduced salaries they must resign at once. Long leave has been stopped, pnd the ago at which children are admitted ti school raised to seven years. Similar economies axe being enforced in all Government works and offices.