MR.CHAMBERLAIN IN SOUTH AFRICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12175, 22 January 1903, Page 5

MR.CHAMBERLAIN IN SOUTH AFRICA.

HIS STATESMANSHIP PRAISED. THE SETTLEMENT UNIVERSALLY APPROVED. ' By "Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright. London, January 20. ; Mb: Chamberlain, in Friday's speech, replying to Mr. J. B. Robinson, referred to Park Lane, the London headquarters of Mi*. Robinson and other South African millionaires, not Mark Lane.

The Cape Times . says the settlement is universally approved. Mr. Chamberlain waiving his predilection deferred to enlightened local opinion, which is another illustration of his responsiveness to the facta of the case.

Mr. C. Leonard, president of the Johannesburg National Union, referring to tire native question, said he thought Mr. Chamberlain intended the Transvaal to work out its own salvation regardless of Exeter Hall or .=the British colonies; His native policy was eminently one calculated to increase the union of Briton and Boer. Mr. Augustine Birfell, K.C., speaking at Bristol, expressed the hope that the Liberal party would iri no way dishonour any obligations which Mr. Chamberlain might enter into in South Africa. • , / The St. James' Gazette,, speaking of Mr. Chamberlain's settlement of the South African question, says his monumental statesmanship will shine even beside the achievements of Prince Bismarck and Count Cavour. His policy has been one of •the open-door. The matters pressing for settlement have been settled, ! while the future is mortgaged as I little as possible. Reuter's Agency states that the Rand newspapers admit that Mr. Chamberlain has destroyed the idea I of importing Chinese labour. I The St. James' Gazette says the financiers consider a thirty-five million three-per-cent. loan will be issued at the end of February, arid the first instalment of the four-ger-cent. war loan in January, 1904. ' ' (Beceived January 22, 12.29 a.m.) ' Capetown, January 21. Many leading men on the Rand advocated the introduction of cheap Italian and Spanish labour to raise the proportion of whites.