SOUTH AFRICA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 28

SOUTH AFRICA.

HET YOLK AND NATIONALISTS. CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS. GREAT GATHERING OF PROGRESSIVES. STATEMENT BY SIR PERCY FITZPATRICK. CAPETOWN, February 12. Ten Hot Yolk candidates have been elected unopposed. February 14. Ex-General Botha has sent a message to the British people in which he declares that British supremacy is safer in the hands of the Boers "than of cosmopolitan capitalists. After the Vereeniging Treaty of Peace Kin» Edward was the Boers' King, and the British flag the Boers' flag. The Boers entertained no hostility to the mines and to talk about wholesale repatriation of the Chinese "was nonsense. Nothing would be done to embarrass the mmc& regarding unskilled labour. He was prepared to accept English as the compulsozy language. February 18. Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, in the course of an interview, s,aid he trusted the people would uphold equality and continuity in public affairs, but there must be no indemnities against defeat and no putting rejected candidates in the Upper House. He added -. " I have no need to creep in by the skylight if not admitted by the door." JOHANNESBURG, February 15. The Miners' Union at Johannesburg complains that Lord Selborne's refusal to proclaim a holiday on polling day will disfranchise the mine workers, many of whom are 40 miles from the division wherein they aye registered. They ask Lord Elgin to intervene.

J LONDON, February 13. ] Reuter's Johannesburg correspondent ' says that, the Het Yolk party and the [ Nationalists are confident of success, and that their Ministry is practically assured, J with Sir R. Solomon as Premier. February 16. Lord Elgin (Colonial Secretary), in accordance with the request of a deputation of Biitish Indians from the Transvaal that wailed upon him, has disallowed the Transvaal legislature's Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance for the registration of all Asiatics and the expulsion of those who are unable to prove that they are lawfully resident in the colony. I^ord Sel borne (High Commissioner for South Africa) favoured the ordinance. Lord Elgin, while sanctioning "Vrededorp Stands Ordinance, disagreed with the restriction preventing Indians from holding land. The Westminster Gazette says Lord Elgin's decision regarding registration will tend to educate the Transvaal to a fuller sense of its part in a great Empire of many races. February 17. In connection with the Transvaal elections a recoid gathering of 15,000 Progressives was held in the Wanderers' Hall, Johannesburg. Sir George Farrar and Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, who addressed the meetino-, were accorded a great ovation.