SOUTH AFRICA.
By Electric Telegraph l —Per Press Association—Copyright. Received midnight, May 17. Capetown, May 17. Lord Selborne was cordially welcomed. Replying to the Mayor he created a most favorable impression, saying he drew en. couragement from the example of his predecessors. He remembered the farseeing imagination of Jau Vauriebeeek, the founder of Capetown, and Cecil Rhodes, the sagacious statesmanship of President Brand, and Milner’s indomitable courage. With the help of men truly deserving peace, prosperity, and progress in South Africa, he would not be shirking his share of their common task with which their Sovereign had entrusted him. General Botha addressed a meeting of fiftoen hundred members of the Het Volk at Johannesburg. He deolared that the Boers would show Lord Selborne they loved Older, and would 00-operato with him. Other speeches were characterised with much grumbling, and demanding of full responsible government. Ex Generals Smuts and Beyers were especially bitter
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1457, 18 May 1905, Page 2
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