TRANSVAAL PARLIAMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9306, 23 March 1907, Page 5

TRANSVAAL PARLIAMENT.

GOVERNMENT POLICY DECLARED, j (.PRESS , ASSOCIATION .I I PRETORIA, March 22. The Transvaal Legislative Assembly, after electing General Beyers to the Spie/akership, proceeded to the Upper House, where Lard Seiborae delivered the inaugural speech. He ainnouiniced that Ministers hadi resolved) thait the importation of Chinese must cease at the earliest possible date, but the present supply would not t>e repatriated umitiil substitutes* had been found. It none were forthcoming, the indentuxes would be temporarily ireoiewed. Munoßters, meanwhile, intended' (to do their utmost to ixi-erease the supply of Eiaffiis. The Assembly passed the Asiatic O,rdinance through all stages, the Opposition co-opeTaiang, and after the third reading the measure was sent to the UppeT House. The Government wanted, it settled forthwith. The Council was about to adjouinn when Mr H. C. Hull declared that umles© the bill was immeddaitely passed thte Asaambly wouldi adjourn, and' thus wreck the bkl. ' Mr Felham aaid others declared that the Council declined to be rushed in the con-sLdera-tion of the measuire, and adjourned till to-day. The salient feature of t!h,e- Assembly's proceedings was .the effacement of Mr Botha, everything being left tc Mr Smuts, amd secondily to Mr Schalkburgiefr, other Boers interpreting. It was insistiedl thait the officials of the House should speak Dutob ; this after they had begun in English. ■ I CHINESE LABOR. J (Received March 23, 7.42 a.m.) PRETORIA, March 22. Indentures of 407 Chinese on the Rand expire at the end of June and the remainder in August. Mr Smuts has announced that the matter will not be debated until Parliament re-aesembles in June. Sir George Farrair urges the appointment of a labor commission. SOUTH AFRICAN FEDERATION. CAPETOWN, March 22. Mr T. P. Theron, addressing the Cape Afrikander Bond Congress, Middleburg, declared) that the Bond would mo nothing to Tetard federation, bat it must emanate voluntarily from th© people. t MORE PROMISES OF IOYALTY. . j PRETORIA, March 22. | In the Transvaal Assembly, Mx Byers, I whose racial partdKunship is notorious, promised, speaking in English, to follow the best Parliamentaary traditions of flbe. Motherland, also of the Motherland colony at the Cape.