SOUTH AFRICA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2761, 13 February 1907, Page 27

SOUTH AFRICA.

JOHANNESBURG, February 6. Mr J. B. Robinson has informed a deputation representing 19,000 unemployed at Johannesburg that he is giving the clergy £5000 to meet the present wants of the unemployed. CAPETOWN, February 8. The Transvaal election campaign is developing on racial lines. Although Mr Smuts and other leaders veil their national aspirations, others, including several exgenerals, when delivering addresses in the back-veldt districts, avowed that they would get rid of the Chinese first and then the British workmen. The Boer clergy are preaching a deliverance for the Boer Israel. Mr Smuts insists that the miming industry must be excluded from Parliament, declaring that the people and not the Chamber of Mines must rule. February 10. There are 141 candidates nominated for the Transvaal Parliament. The polling takes place on the 20th inst. PRETORIA, -February 11. Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, speaking at Pretoria, stated that Het Yolk recently offered — if the capitalists would agree to a loan of £10,000,000 for compensation for war losses and give the Boers control of education — to consent to the formation of a Capitalist party with the co-operation of the Boers, also to support Chinese labour. LONDON, February 5. Reuter's Capetown correspondent reports that a strong body of influential persons, representing all the South African colonies and all shades of politics, have pledged themselves strenuously to promote South African federation. February 8. Regarding the movement to repatriate Australians who are stranded in South Africa owing to lack of empjovment,

February 8.

advices from Capetown state that the exodus has somewaht abated and the numbers booking by Australian steamers are fewer. Several thousand workers have left the Cape for all parts during the three years of severe depression.