NEWS FROM SOUTH AFRICA.
PROPOSED GREY MEMORIAL COLLEGE. SotTH African news, just received in Sydney, shows that an agitation to establish a Sir George Grey Memorial College is receiving considerable suppart. A Natal correspondent remarks on the proposal: — " Will Natal forget the man who was the first to recognise the capabilities of the colony, and to declare its inhabitants fit for self-government when they numbered but eooor Resolutions in favour of restricting the immigration of undesirable immigrants have been passed by the Mayoral Congress at Kimberley. In the Transvaal Raad the President said that the Transvaal Government intended to engage an experienced European financier to take charge of the financial administration of the Republic. Two terrible scourges, smallpox and leprosy, are reported from Johannesburg. Seventeen cases of variola amongst natives were reported on March 17, of these five proved fatal. There .were, also in the lazaret on that date five white men suffering from the scourged ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11040, 18 April 1899, Page 6
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