BOTHA TO LEAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 5

BOTHA TO LEAD.

UNITED SOUTH AFRICA. LORD SELBORNE. . GENERAL FAREWELL TRIBUTES. Bj Telegraph—Prow Association—Copyright Capo Town, May 18. Lord Solborno (who has retired from tho High Commissionership of South Africa, consequent upon the appointment of Lord Gladstone as first Gover-nor-General) has, with Lady Solborno and his suite, sailed for England in tho Union-Castle liner Armadalo Castle. Lord and Lady Selborno wore accorded a striking farewell at Cape Town by the new Governor-General, by tho Premiers of Cape Colony, Transvaal, Natal, and Orango River Colony, and by many politicians and citizens. The Cape Town papers pay a tribute to Lord Selborne's unfailing impartiality, and declare that he has striven to obliterate' racial prejudices and divisions. FIRST PRIME MINISTER. BOTHA'S COMMISSION. London, May 19. Lord Gladstone, the new GovernorGeneral, has been sworn in at Government House. Informal conferences are proceeding in Cape Town between various South African Ministers. It is expected that Lord Gladstone will confer with the leaders to-day. There is a strong feeling that the question who shall be tho first Primo Minister must bo settled without delay. Later. General Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, had a conference with Lord Gladstone, and will, it is understood, form the first Ministry of the Union of South Africa.