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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 12

The Rev Gertrude von Petzold, the Leicester lady pastor, conducted her first marriage ceremony recently. On the subject of Chinese in South Africa, Mr R. L. Outhwaite, the candidate who intends to oppose Mt Joseph Chamberlain at next election, writes as follows to the “Westminster Gazette 3 ’:—Considerable attention has heen devoted by- the press to the arrival in tihe Transvaal of the High. Commissioner appointed by his Majesty King Edward VTI. kittle attention, however, has been given to the fact that there bas just arrived; in the Transvaal a more important official, in the person of the Consul-General appointed by the Dowager Empress of China, Lord Selborne may exert some influence on the destinies: of the Transvaal, hut probably this Chinese Consul-General has power of life and death over more than 40,000 men in the Transvaal, for woe betide the wretch he may condemn to be sent back to be dealt with in his native land. A thousand serfs have just been returned 1 to. China, some, it is said, for. rioting. It. would be interesting, to know if any' are to be subjected to the slicing process on. arrival. However, without lifting; the' veil and peering too inquisitively into the chamber of primitive horrors' that may await' these- culprits, it issuffioiently- apparent to anyone with a-knowledge of Oriental; methods that the immediate: destiny of the Transvaal is more in the control of the' Chinese Consul-General than in ‘that off the British: High Commia- : sinner. And' this- k Iknperialiasrl