SOUTH AFRICA,
By telegraph, Presa A'aa’n,, Copyrlgh*
London, Maroh 9,
In the House of Commons Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman announced that tha Government intended to appoint a com> mittee to report on the actnal results likely to be created by the various proposals for new constitutions in the Transvaal and Orange Colony. Capetown, March 9. The Het Volk has declined the progressive party’s offer of a settlement on the basis of manhood suffrage, with an alteration in the electoral area benefitting the Boers, owing to Mr Smut’s suggestion that the Liberals would give better terms.
THE GOVERNMENT POLICY. By telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 4.43 p.m., Marsh 10. Capetown, March 10. StalLtics issued at Johannesburg show 61.211 more women and children in the country distriots than in Witwater’s Rand. If a population basis is taken for the elections the exoess will give the Hetvolk a majority of ten members. Johannesburgera declare that Sir H Campbell-Bsnnerman’s oommil e, if im-’ partial, will remove erroneous ideas exist* in the Motherland. AU are anxious for an early settlement.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1695, 12 March 1906, Page 2
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