TRANSVAAL.
CHINESE OUTLAWS. FIVE FARMHOUSES ATTACHED. CAPETOWN, February 16. Five farmhouses in the Transvaal were attacked cm Thursday by Chinese, who were repelled by the inmates. Thirteen of the Chinese have been arrested. THE FRANCHISE PRINCIPLE. THE CHINESE QUESTION. REFERENDUM SUGGESTED. Received Febraury 18, 4.20 p.m. CAPETOWN, February 17. Mr Volkstern, in reiterating the population argument, resists the one-vote-one-va'.uo proposal on the ground that it would give the Rand thirty-one members and the rest of the country tweny-nine. He further urges that if this franchise principle is upheld the Chinese question ought to be settled by a referendum. LONDON, February. 17. The Times'. Johannesburg correspondent reports that iu a pronouncement the Hetrolks organ attributed to London inspiration the suggestion regarding tbe Chinese, in view of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman probably retaining the voters' basis of representation, which indicates that the Boers foresee the country s verdict, and asa referendum is an impossibility they wish Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's to take the decision, checking the Colony's prosperity, and therewith the growth of the British population.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7967, 19 February 1906, Page 5
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