SOUTH AFRICA.
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
AND THE BOERS.
By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association*—Copyright, Received 11.17 p.m,, Juno 6.
Capetown, Juno 6. ' Sir West Ridgway, leaving Johannesburg for Bloemfontein, stated the corn--miltee aro very satisfied with the progress towards ftumiDg a constitution satisfactory to ell parties. Sir J. P. Fitzpatriok, representing tho British Pu.ty, deolaros that tho committee has Riled to reoonoile discordant raolal el. moots on a basis of mutual conoessions. All the Boor proposals aro oaloulatod to give them a majority and undormino British supremacy. The Imperial Government’s inaction, hb states, has caused hard times, diet.ess, and starvation, and further delay will intensify tho oxodus of -British. The result is almost oortain to be a Boer majority, and tho British onoe again with their backs to the wall, fighting for their rignts. Sir J. P. Fitzpatrick advocated an appeal to tho colonies whose people shed blood in South Africa and the national feeling of England to prevent the loss of all tco fruits of their sacrifices,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1767, 7 June 1906, Page 3
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