SOUTH AFRICA.
PDLITICAL QUESTION..
By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright.; . . CAPETOWN/ Feby ■24 General Botha declares' that?. \he will never approve of one vbtfi one value or the automatic- redistribution pf seats as a basia of responsible government- _ LONDON,' Feb. 24'. Sir ,G>. Fitzpatrick, author of “The j Transvaal from Within,” in a weighty letter to the Times, con- J tends that the Boer leaders are an- 1
■tagonSstic to electoral equality, and wish to retaiffl the old. electoral divisions in order to .confine all power. Ito the Boer country voters. He argues that the concession of a special monopolistic position to the j IBoers would result in the gradual undermining of the whole fabric of frovernment that the British have laboriously raised. Mr Lyttelton says the present rejquirements of the Transvaal mines are 35,000 Chinese, afterwards the ‘ increase will bo very moderate.-
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1390, 27 February 1905, Page 2
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142SOUTH AFRICA. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1390, 27 February 1905, Page 2
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