SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 March 1906, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

IEV ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —Hit* •'Rl(iL') j frEB TKESS ASSOCIATION.] THE BOERS VERY ENERGETIC. LONDON, .March 2. The Standard states that the Government has decided that coolies wishing to bo permanently repatriated Hist give a quarter's notice, and their earnings during that period to bo demoted to paying their passages. It is believed that, very few will break their contracts.

Instead of a Royal Commission a Select- Committeo will collect information to s.-ttle the electoral basis in Smith Africa. There is no likelihood .if the population basis being adopted, Hit some compromise is probable. CAPETOWN, March 2. The Afrikander Bend at the Cape is asking for the restoration to ihe register of tell thousand rebels before tho expiration of their term of disfranchisement, hoping at next elections In list the Progressives. BERLIN, March 2. The German newspaper National Zeitung says that owing to Bannerman's South African policy, the desire for self-government in the Transvaal lias become a passion. It is preferrable that the Boers should have a say in the management than Ihat the c.deny should go under the present coin liti. 'lis. CAPETOWN, March 2. Colonel Mackenzie has arrested the principal agitator in Natal. He is an educated native.