SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8068, 27 March 1906, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

A STEP TOWARDS FINALITY

THE UNCERTAINTY DEPLORED

£ i * f '' 6i?ffro\\Ts, March 25. 'The South African Customs Conference resolved that 1 the present uncertainty of Imperial policy towards tke

Transvaal and Orangia was detrimental to tl.<e best interests of South Africa, • it-profoundly regrets England's at- , titude, towards Lord Milner. A peti- - don to the King to inscribe " one vote, one 'value " on tke new constitution has already received 21,800 signatures out ,of ,39,123 voters in Jpkanuesbtrg, ' " The " Times'" • Johannesburg cor-

respondent says that Sir J. West Bidgeway's committee will be wel- - corned as a step forward to the goal of fbtality. ■ The personnel of tke committee is approved.

THE BOEKB' DESIBES. MAJORITY REPRESENTATION. Received 27, 12.47 a.m. Capetown, March 26. Dr. Smuts declared m a speech at Pretoria that ke wanted representation on the basis of population, with tho simple object of getting a majority ruling tke country, am} restoring itluf civil servants of the Republics to their old positions, itc-did not .want legislation at the kands of a floating population j wko might to-morrow go to Australia or Klondyke.