SOUTH AFRICA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8312, 15 December 1906, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE ,TRASSYaA'L , OONSTITU- , , .;jion. PROVISIONS AS TO CONTRACT LABOUR. CHINESE ORDINANCE TO LAPSE. Received December 14, 8.35 a.m. LONDON, December 13. Under the new Constitution of the the Governor will receive any Jaw leloting.to the importation of contract, indentured, or licensed labourers frorr outside South Africa. * i'be Assembly is empowered to hasten the termination of Chinese labour. No further lioensea will be issued under the Labour Importat'on nor oontraotß thereunder renewed. The ordinance will lapse a year after the Legislature meets, and a new ordinance will te required to settle the status of Chinese remaining in the country, but the Governor will reserve it for the Imperial Government's approval, leßt the conditions imposed are servile. SimiUrly, all exopptional legislation against nonwhites wilii.be reserved. , King Edward, in affixing his signature"to the Letters Patent, expressed bis earnest wishes for the peace and prosperity of the nouutry.under the new Constitution. The Times -1 understands that Orange River Colony will receive an identical Constitution as soon as the Transvaal Legislature is selected. The Baine paper declares that the Government has endangered the Transvaal's prosperity and South Africa's future'; by deliberately loading the electoral dice in favour of the Boer , minority against the British majirity.

• AN. INDUCEMENT TO VOTERS, Reoeivefd December"l 4, 8.50 a.m. CAPETOWN, December 13. Mr Tatbam, a Labour member, moved in the Durban Assembly tor leave to introduce a Bill to prevent the issue of a tradnr's or merchant's license to anyone not registered as a Parliamentary voter. .The notion was rejected. SPONTANEOUS GRATITUDE. Received December 14, 9 a.m. CAPETOWN, December 13. The Chinese employed on the Jumper's Deep mine presented a pieoe of gold plate to the retiring manager in acknowledgement of his good and kind, treatment of them. ; SO SURPRISE OCCASIONED. >-+»••' Beeeived D.ecem,b,er .14, 11.45 p.m. December 14. Renter's Capetown correspondent wires that the details of the Transvaal Constitution have not occasioned any surprise, , Tie general attitude is onS of hopefulness or acqaiesceuoe, though some newspapers severely criticise the nominate i Council and reservations.