Beyond The Dominion

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 265, 4 June 1910, Page 3

Beyond The Dominion

GRANTS TO EMIGRANTS. London. The emigration conference asked the Government to hold a subsidiary conference to formulate proposals for submission to the Imperial Conference of 1911. It also urged the Board of Trade to grant loans under the Labour Exchanges Act to workpeople going to the colonies to get work. Lord Brassey urged the expediency of the Government making a beginning by granting £IO,OOO to be administered under Government supervision by existing societies. SCOTT'S EXPEDITION. London. The Royal Geographical Society entertained Captain Scott and his officers at luncheon at the Holborn Restaurant. Captain Scott, proudly referring to the Australians and New Zealanders and other colonials associated with the expedition, claimed that he tried to make it an Empire expedition. It was thoroughly representative of the hardihood and energy of the race. VANCOUVER MAIL. Ottawa. Canada is calling alternative tenders for four different mail services between Vancouver and Australia and New Zealand, to commence when the present contract with the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand expires. The ports mentioned for delivery of mails by the contracting steamers are: Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. PRICE OF MEAT. London. The National Federation of Meat Traders' Associations announces greatly increased prices of meat, owing to short supplies of cattle, and largely reduced arrivals of United States and Canadian live stock. Retailers have been obliged to raise prices, and there is no indication that meat will be cheaper for some time. UNITED SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown. Mr Louis Botha (Premier of the Transvaal), who accepted the commission of the Governor-General of South Africa (Lord Gladstone) to form the first Ministry of the South African Union, has completed his task, and officially announced the personnel of the Ministry as follows: — Mr Botha, Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture; Mr J. C. Smuts, Minister for the Interior, Mines and Defence; Mr J. W. Sauer, Minister for Railways and Harbours; Mr J. B. Hertzog, Minister for Justice; Mr F. S. Malan, Minister for Education; Mr H.G.Hull, Minister for Finance; Mr A. Fischer, Minister for Lands; MrH. Burton, Minister for Native Affairs; Mr F. R. Moor, Minister for Commerce and Industries; Mr D. P. de Villiers Graaf, Minister for Public Works and Post and Telegraphs; Mr C. O'Grady Gubbins, Minister without portfolio. Thanksgiving services for the birth of the Union were held in every church in South Africa on Tuesday morning, except where combined services had been arranged in the openair. Ten thousand school children paraded in Johannesburg and sang patriotic songs, and gave tableaux, descriptive of the Union. London. Lord Selborne, in his message of God-speed to the people of South Africa, says, "May they never forget what they owe to the sea. There is always a danger of an inland people losing the sea sense. If South Africa should lose command, a hostile Power need only occupy the ports and the economic and political pressure thus brought to bear would be intolerable."