THE TRANSVAAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9001, 25 January 1906, Page 5

THE TRANSVAAL.

QUESTION OF BOEft REPRESEN-

TATION.

A THREATENED RESIGNATION.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received January 24, 11.4 -p.m.)

CAPETOWN, January 24.

It ie xeported at Johannesburg that j Lord Selborne informed Lord Elgin that he would reeign if the Government,-; yield- , ing to Mr Smut's representations, decide against equal "electoral districts in the I Transvaal, with a view jto giving the Boer ] minority a. preponderating influence in the| Chamber. " '

TRANSVAAL MINING FIGURES.

CAPETOWN, January 24. (Received January 24, 11.4 p.m.)

The Transvaal's mineral output for 1905 was £22,688,675, including diamonds, £922,780.

The wages an<d salaries paid amounted to £8,996,121, including £5,660,493 paid to whites.