THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMITTEE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3002, 14 December 1896, Page 4

THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMITTEE.

When the Imperial Parliament reassembles in ■ January," the first business, alter the Queen’s Speech is disposed of. will bo the reappointment of the Select Committee on South Africa, which met in August last, but dissolved at the end of the session, la order to rectify some misunderstandings that are said to exist, It is tho ught Well to notify, by way of supplement to Mr tillamborlaiu’s official announcement in tho London Gazette; that the powers ot the committee are ample, both as to the examination; payment and protection of Witnesses, 'file object ed a Select Com* mittoe being to ascertain facts, and not to tty persons for offences, such a, committee is not in any Way bound by tho stridt tUids Which govern the procedure of Civil find criminal Courts. Thero is reason tq believe that, unlesS.' fresh . testimony on material points is forthcoming; the evidence taken at Pretoria • and in the London Law Courts with reference to the Jamdson raid, of which each member had already boon furnished with a copy,.will bd accepted without additioii aa Bulllciijully explaining that event; but new evidence will bo called from the Transvaal Whore with regard to thefuture administration of our fjouth African territories. Mr Rhodes is expected to go to : England in time to attend as one of the first Witnesses before the conniiittehi