SOUTH AFRICA.
ASIATIC TRADERS.
THE TRANSVAAL CONSTITUTION. United Press ABsociation — By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. (Received November 16, 8.47 a.m.) PIETERMARITZBURG, Nov. 15. The Natal Legislative Assembly rejected a Bill designed to prevent the licensing of Asiatic traders. The Earl of Elgin, Colonial Secretary, replying to Lord Lovat in the House of Lords, evasively declared that he would give assurances that the Government would specially safeguard the interests of 1300 British farmers who had been settled in the Transvaal and Orangia, alleging that the matter concerned the still unsettled Constitutions. Lord Milner declared that, unless the farmers were safeguarded before the letters-patent for the Transvaal Constitution were issued, it would be too late to intervene in Orangia, because the Transvaal precedent would prevail. The Marquis of Ripon, Lord Privy Seal, promised to carefully consider the appeal.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8779, 16 November 1906, Page 2
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