SOUTH AFRICA.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12927, 19 March 1906, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

MR CHURCHILL'S SPEECH. A THREAT OF SEGTBSSIOX,. United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CAPETOWN", March 16. The "Cape Times'' states if Mr Win stons Churchill's ..mischievous '.hicat to interfere with the Transvaal Government in its ultimate decision regarding the employment of Chinese labour, is anything bevond stage thunder, in a few years n»i will resist cutting the jxiinter. Reuters Johannesburg correspondent says that Mr Churchill's speech caused great indignation, and that it is described in more than one qntincr as :ui ussnlt jo the colony.

STRONG LANGUAGE FROM NATAL. , PIETERMARITZBURG. March 17. The " Times of Nataldeclares tii.it Mr Churchill's sinister insistence- «n the word "veto" will affect, besides the Transvaal, the whole of South Africa. It savs tltatnbe principle underlying Mr Churchill'* policy is rotten and vicious, and that the Liberals are a greater meaace to the Empire than ever. A BOER PROTEST. BLOEMFONTEIX, Maich 17. Delegates from thirteen branches of the t j J^ n . ,0n of O raD g»a have cabled to tiord Elgin, a protest against I<ord Miluet-V speech in the House of Lords. A SOUTH AFRICAN UNION. CAPETOWN. March 17. A Congress at Ceres resolved to convene a Conference with a view to drawing nearer "sation\ ? other similar organ j-

T.HJS RAND SHARES.' WHY THEY HAVE FALLEN*. . LONDON, March 17. Mr W insfon Churchill, in a letter l« » correspondent, denies that tie depreciation in Rand shares is due to the Government's pohev. He attributes it to Mr UalfnurV and Mr Chamberlain's pessimistic orjlioii" and criticisms, and to Mr Chamberlain shifting his ground of attack, as compared with the earlier part- of t3ic session IMPROVEMENT IN PRICES. t - „ LONDON. March 17. Kaffir shares improved in London. on tne suggested importation of Indian coolies. umr tlj at tJi e fermer obstacles bare been removed. !

Mr Winston Churchii!. t*isder-S''Te».irv lor the Colonies, .inrxu: a in UiV House of Commons week, exi>l;iiw<i that the Government. intended. after c ,vj.t. !«g licenses to iinigrants had «orkod out ' in .Tune or Jult—to throw the recrniuncnt j out. of gear. British Consuls .1 Chinese ports, who formed the ?inrh-pjj: ..f ij iC > v ... tem. wou'd be ordered io rv>u:.,o i:h» , tions heretofore deleeated <r, a <;{■:;{< . < ,;„J Iransvaal Imtnicratios? Asv>.< j., ; ; 35 . i not io part it I j;, je- »„},>* instructed from Home to do so. Once the ' iransvaal became a self-governing ra!onv

the MnUieH.ind would Jix a date in tcrminate the exiting labour .and would theH co:«idcr whatever Jrt»h ptnmight. Kt m.idc by the TwuwAjiJ Uovcrnmcnt-. Tlx- Imperial t»*»vcjT3jmwl would decidediy veto «nc3i pjK.jw*;,?,. '"if tHsoc»juy, ist» nwjpr how great iJjc majority supporting Jb«an. || c Ui<»t>£ta st, c chance of the Tr-m«.vjjl fr.vmieg accrrrt-sfelc proposal# W3* not at a 1! * good t»n«. Mr Churchill the opinion lltaj, the gradual repatriation of c«m!iK *t«.a!d injure intrinsically valuaJd,. mine*. T3sc rearrangement „f ; a !»«ur colliers* attract native*. He then sfcc condition* a? ij, e Iv.mh'* \V«»! ttwa <«-hcre «•!,»<. mi»«* -w Maricvrfl ! wr " h " W r ' n ,iiC fa**- ««!' concluded by the hrf© tfaj Si m °" '""'v *"H