The vote of censure on the Government was moved -hi
the Commons on Monday • by Sir H. Campbell-Banners/Ian in a speech of great ability. After dwelling on the failure of theTreini- vaal Government to show any decisive evidence that then; was (1) an absolute want of labour; (2) an exhaustion of the nalifire supply; (3) any impracticability of employing white labour; and (4) any impracticability of developing laboui-saving machinery, he further noted their failure to produce proof that the Perrciaiient inhabitants, British and Dutch, wished forthe importatiOilef Chlnese labour. He also dwelt very strongly on the fact that " the mine-owners have certified that they do not want another Australia in South Africa, and by falling back upon the China- man they hope to get rid of the trail of Trade-UM-Mi.' That is calling in the old world to redress the balance of the new. Cheap and abundant labour, =enfranchised labour, labour incapable of combination,—these are the three essentials. -that the Mine:owners require in their workers; and as the Kaffir is too dear, as the British workman suffers from! the 4atne drawback, and has, besides, a stubborn and ineradicable taste for freedonf and citizenship,--the mine-owners have falleif Vtack
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