SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13545, 19 March 1906, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SPEECH.

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright. CAPETOWN, March 16. (Received March 17, at 8.47 a.m.) The Cape Times states that if Mr Winston CluirchiH'6 mischievous threat to interfere -with the Transvaal Government in its ultimate decision is anything beyond Stage thunder, no colony will resist cutting the painter in a few years. BLOEMFONTEIN, March 17. (Received March 18, at 4.45 p.m.) Delegates from 13 branches of the Boer Union in Orangia cabled to Lord Elgin to protest against Urd Milnw's speech in the House of Lords. CAPETOWN, March 17. (Received March 18, at 4.45 p.m.) A congress at Ceres resolved to convene a conference with a view to drawing nearer the Het Yolk and other similar organisations. LONDON, March 18.

(Received March 18, at 4.45 p.m.) Kaffir shares have improved in London on tho strength of suggested importation of Indian coolies now that former obstacles have been removed. Mr Winston Churchill, in a. letter to a correspondent, denies that the depreciation in shares is due to the Government policy. He attributes it to Messrs Balfour alid Chamberlain's pessimistic orations and criticisms and to Mr Chamberlain shifting the ground of attack as compared with the earlier part of the session.

Renter's Johannesburg correspondent says Mr Churchill's 6peech caused greatindignation, and is described in more than one quarter as an insult to the colony. The Times of Natal declares "Mr Churchill's sinister insistence on the word "veto" will affect, besides the Transvaal, the whole of South Africa, and that the principle underlying Mr Churchill's policy is rotten and vicious, The Liberals arc a greater menace to the Empire than ever.