SOUTH AFRICA.
BOMBASTIC TALK,
By telegraph, Presa Ana’n, Copyright
Capetown, March 27.
Tbe Bloemfontein newspaper Friend, the organ of Steyn, De Wet, Hertzog, and Fisher, stato3 : “ When we get selfgovernment we shall repudiate any, convention, including preference for British goods, and expel all British civil servants,’
Reoeived 12.40 a.m., March 29, Capetown, March 28.
The Bloemfontein Post says that Smuts, Esselen, Hertzog, and Fischer, at a reoent meeting, discussed closer anion with the Transvaal, and decided that a preliminary step muet be the absorption of tbe Orangia Union by the Het Volk, tho latter and the Bond to promote an Afrikander Federation when responsible government is granted.
Received 12 48 a.m., Maroh 29. London, Maroh 28.
Lord Milner, in the House of Lords, urged that the Government, in granting responsible government to the oolonies, should keep the land laws in their own control, allaying tbe alarm of British settlers.
Lord Elgin said the Government were unable to answer sLina questions raised until they obtained the information necessary for the formation of the constitution
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1710, 29 March 1906, Page 2
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