SOUTH AFRICA.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4871, 24 January 1903, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

LABOUR OX THE RANH.

PROPOSED IMPORTATION OF NAVVIES. CAPETOWN, January 22. At a conference between tho I land mining leaders and Mr Chamberlain a proposal noil inode by Mr Uhaiiiherlaiu that tho Government should ini pert live thousand English navvies, on condition of t he mines engaging a similar number at Is a day, besides their keep. The Government, navvies would go to the railway works, thus releasing natives for employment in the mines. I he Rand leaders doubted tho willing-ne;-1 ( f the shareholders to try tho experiment. Mr Ciia.mborla in promised to recommend the Foreign Office to open Uganda, an t all other British African provinces, excepting Nairobi, for recruiting natives. SCHEME OF A LAND SYNDICATE. CAPETOWN, January 22. The trustees of tho Rhodes estate, tho firm of Wernher, 1 ’hi and Co., and .Mr Abo Bailey, tho well-known Johan-' uosburg millionaire, have provided £33,00(1 for the establishment of. mi Agricultural College in connection with irrigation worlds at Colcsberg, in Northern Capo GMosiy. A hundred end forty thousand acres have boon acquired in Orange River Colony. Tho idea is to bring sixteen thousand of those under cultivation, thereby providing a living for a thousand settlors and their families. All profits above 5 per cent, are to bo devoted to tho requirements of tho settlers. THE HIGH COMMISSIONERSHTP. (Received January' 23, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 23. Tho Johannesburg correspondent of the ‘Daily Express” says it is state'! officially that tho Marquis of Linlithgow—formerly (as Lord Hopcteniii) Governor-General of the Australia.'! Commonwealth —will bo Lord Alii tier’s ultimate successor as High Commissioner in South Africa.