ORANGIA CONSTITUTION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8836, 12 June 1907, Page 2

ORANGIA CONSTITUTION.

Hopeful Conditions. Per Press Association.—Copyright. London, June 10. . Following in the main features Hie Transvaal precedent letters patent have been issued to confer a constitution on Grangia. A Legislative Council of eleven will be nominated in the first case by the Governor with the right to be converted into an elective Assembly by the Legislature after four years. Provision is also made for an Assembly of 38, whereof five will represent Bloemfontein. A separate Laud Board is created for five years with security for pensions for such officials in the Laud Settlement Department as are retained aud liberal construction, is put on settlers’ rights. King Edward expresses confidence that the inhabitants will increasingly enjoy the prosperity aud contentment which distinguished Oraugia in the past. The newspapers hope that the risks have been minimised after Botha’s speeches and the fact such a typical Afrikander as Smuts has now drafted an Education Bill which lias been welcomed hy the whole of the Transvaal jiross. It seeks to make a thorough knowledge of English universal aud withdraws patronage from the Separatist Dutch schools. Smuts, at tho Hetvolk Congress, remarked that education had superseded the rifle as the weapon of the Afrikander people.