TRANSVAAL CONSTITUTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8173, 4 August 1906, Page 2

TRANSVAAL CONSTITUTION.

A COLONIAL STANDPOINT. RECKLESSLY AUDACIOUS EXPERIMENTS. Received 3, 0.30 p.m. Ottawa, August 3. Hie " Gazette Montreal" say! future South Africa concerns Australia and Canada [equally as much as Biitain, "It was not for such reckless * audacious experiments as the latest Constitution that we gave so tlie blood of our bravest." INTERVIEWS WITH BOER LEADERS. Receive! 3, 9.51 p.m. '\ * Capetown, August 8. \ Ex-President Bteyn, interviewed, said he had been watching the Liberal Party, and had lately seen they were approaching a new era of good undec standing between Britain and the Afrikanders. This fair prospect was now ovorlouded, but nevertheless all would be well if Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman « would only await Sir West Ridgway's Orangia report before granting a Con. stitulian, ? Mr A. Fischer hoped there would be no delay, otherwise distrust of British faith would be re-awakened. It was idle to pretend that if treaty engage* ments were not kept, that* would be that cheerful co-operation with the Imperial Government which a responsible Ministry now called to office would give. -A. ELECTIONS BEFORE' FEBRUARY. Received 4,12.8 a.m. London, August S. In the House of Commons, Mr Winston Churchill announced that the Transvaal elections would be held not later than January.