SOUTH AFRICA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1742, 7 May 1906, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

CHINESE LABOR. By telegraph, P»*a A«a’n, Couyrlgh London, May 4.

The Westminster Gazette denies that tho Government are pledged to throw open the door to repatriation of Chinese, and adds the proclamation is in the nature of an emergency exit, used if circumstances justify. The Daily Mail’s Johannesburg correspondent etateß that the Commission just concluding its labors recommends deporting of bad Chinese. If gamblors and opium smokers were deported the others would settle down. -

Capetown, May 5

The newspapers in tho Transvaal blami the Government for refusing a full inves' tigation before posting the proclamation.

SAINTLY PROFESSIONS.

WRATH OF EMPLOYERS OF CHINAMEN.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyrigh Received 11.14 p m., May 5. Johannesburg, May 5.

The Johannesburg Star declares that the Imperial Government are delibeiately pledging the British ratepayers’ money for an object which they admit is unnecessary, thereby incurring tho risk of throwing thousands of whites idle.

Capetown, May 5.

Tha Transvaal Leader saye, “The Government have abandoned tbe cruelly and slavery chargee, but have gone out of their way to injure and insult us in order to give a semblance of truth to their political campaign.”