SOUTH AFRICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 808, 9 June 1903, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE CUSTOMS CONFERENCE.

PROJECTED GREAT* COMBINE.

Received 8, 11.2 p.m.

LONDON, June 8. Mr Chamberlain has congratulated Lord Milner on the successful result of the Bloemfontein Customs Conference, aiid expressed the appreciation of the Government at the result, especially the recommended preferential treatment of British goods.

South African magnates are arranging a gigantic combine to control commerce, industries, and mines, dominating market rates and wages. Received 9, 0.27 a.m. CAPETOWN, June 8.

The Orange Colony Legislature has unanimously adopted the Bloemfontein Customs Convention.

JAPANESE MINING LABOUR.

HIGHWAY ROBBERS SENTENCED.

Received 9, 8.53 a.m.

CAPETOWN, June 8.

The Rand Chamber of Mines in considering the offer of a Japanese syndicate to supply one hundred thousand Japanese miners. Although General Ben Viljoen selected a Mexican locality for irreconcilable Boers, himself settles in South Africa. Ho considers the outlook at the Cape hopeful, and adds that if officials adopt the Home Government's admirable policy, the hatred engendered by the war will soon disappear.

Frank Goddard was sentenced to twelve years' hard labour at Johannesburg for waylaying and robbing a Customs officer. The facts of the case were cabled on March 7th. An accomplice of Goddard's was sentenced to ten years for throwing- pepper in the eyes of the officer.