SOUTH AFRICA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8105, 27 March 1906, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE UNCERTAINTY 1 OF THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY CONDEMNED. Received Ma rob 26, 9.20 a.m. . CAPETOWN, March 26. The South African Customs Conference passed a resolution that the preseut uncertainty of the Imperial politJ.v towards the Transvaal and the Orabge River Colony is detrimental to the best interests of South Africa, and profoundly regrets England's attitude towards Lord Milner, The petition to the King" to inscribe one-vo'e-one-valuo in the new constitution has already received 21.800 signatures out of 30,123 votes in Johannesburg. A STEP FORWARD. Reoeived Maroh 2G, 9.28 a.m. LONDON, March 25. The Johannesburg correspondent of The Times says the appointment, of the Committee of Enquiry is welcomed as a step forward to the gaol of finality. The personnel of the ( committee is approved. LORD MILNER'S SERVICES. A SUGGESTION. Received March 27, 12.47 p.m. LONDON, March 26. Sir Bartle Frere, in a letter to the Press, suggests the formation of a committee to give public and emphatic testimony to the widespread and almost universal gratitude, respect and admiration entertained for Lord Milner in his prolonged toil and service for the King, country and the Empire. JDR. SMUTS SPEAKS FOR THE" BOERS. Received March 27, 12.37 a.m. CAPETOWN, Maroh 26. r Dr. Smuts declared in a speech, at Pretoria, that what they wanted was representation on a basis of population, with the simple object of getting a majority, ruling the oountry, and restoring the civil servants of the Republics to their old positions. They did not waut legislation at the hands of a flo-ting population who might to-morrow go to Australia or Klondyke. THE NATIVE MENACE IN NATAL. A FEARLESS MAGISTRATE. Received Maroh 27, 12.37 a.m. LONDON, Maroh 26. A section of the Fynn tribe considered, besides the refusal to pay the tax, the possibility of massacring the Magistrate, and any guard accompanying him.. They, also, intended to attack the new settlement. The Magistrate, fearlessly proo ceding alona to the place where the tax was collected, averted the danger.