SOUTH AFRICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9303, 20 March 1907, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

♦ i SERIOUS DISTRESS PREVAILING. WHAT RETURNED AUSTRALIANS | SAY. JLPRESS ASSOCIATION.] SYDNEY, March 19. One hundred and thirty Australians returned toom South Africa by the steamer Hyaniettos. loey •confirm the worst that has been reported regarding the prevalent distress. Trade is absolutely dead, and is. daily getting worse. ' | lvaffirs amd Indians are getting work that formerly went to the whites, thousands of whom are idle and leaving South j Africa. Many ante unable to get away owing to lack of funds. SEVEN REBELS CAPTURED. PIETERMARITZBURG, March 19. T rhe Natal police have captured seven of the rebels at Mapulo. PRESIDENT OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCTL. PRETORIA, Mardh 19. Mr Crawford, Chairman of the National Bank of South Africa, has been appointed President of the Transvaal Legislative Council.