SOUTH AFRICA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 522, 1 June 1909, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA.

BOTHA V. BOER FORCES. DEMANDS DROPPED. UNION DEPUTATION TO fiONDON. (6* tStSOfcitii—JftßSS iaabdi Wiolj-Miopinioiri.j (Rec. May 81) p.m.) Pretoria, May 31. At the Bet Yelk (Boer party) Congress, ' tho influence of General Botha (Premier of tho Transvaal) and General Smuts (Colonial Secretary) scoured the rejtotionof reactionary demands that Were pat forward on behalf of tho Dutoli Churohj which ifl seoltiflg to regain control of tho Bohools; whilo an attempt was also mado to require a bMingual qualification for all officials, with a view to superseding British officials. Mr. J. Ht Hofmoyr has t)Wn invited to join the deputation that is to convey the South African draft constitution to Lond&n. tlle fif6 ' time in the history of Het Volk Congresses that (Centrals Botha and Smuts have talked the back-veldt Boer out of the Unwise polioy of attempting to use relentlessly his numerical majority, the liuloenco of- the two leaders with the BoerS has been described as immense. The Hbh. J. -H. Hofmeyr, noted as tho Chairman of the Caps Afrikander. Band, Is also a type of Imperialist, having attended the Ottawa and other Empire Conferences, and being the author of a!scheme of Imperial Custwas Federation that figured in the discussion at the 1007 Imperial Confcronce.l