TRANSVAAL AUTONOMY.
THE BANDLORDS' FEAR. PRErO>'DERAKCE OF RURAI VOTE. AKGUJIENT AGAINST POPULATION BASIS. Received Capetown, March 10. Statistics from Johannesburg show that there are 61,211 more women and children in the country districts, than on the Witwater's Band. If the population basis is adopted for the elections, the excess would give the Het Volk a majority of ten member.;. Johannesburgers declare that Sir H. OampbeUBannerman's committee, if an impartial one, will remove the erroneous ideas existing in the Motherland. All sections arc anxious for an early settlement. London, March 9. In the House of Commons the Right Hon. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman announced that the Government intend to appoint a committee to report on the actual results likely to be created by the various proposals for uew constitutions in the Trausvaal and Orange Bivcr Colony: Capetown, March 9. The llet Volk has declined the Progressive party's offer of a settlement on the basis of manhood suffrage, with an alteration in the electoral areas benefitting the Boers, owing to Mr Smut's suggestion that the Liberals would give bettor terms.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 12 March 1906, Page 3
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177TRANSVAAL AUTONOMY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 12 March 1906, Page 3
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