TRANSVAAL AND ORANGIA.
BBSPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT. it CONSTITUTIONS APPROVED BY THE COMMONS. Lokdos, December 18. Lord Elgin, Secretary for the ColoHies, m the House of Lords, and Mr Winston Churchill (Under-Secretary), in the Home of Commons, made statements respecting the Transvaal and Orangia Constitutions. They explained that Orangia would receive substantially the same Constitution as the Transvaal, and expressed the hope that the Bloemfontein Parliament would be at work by the autumn. Mr Churchill declared that he believed the Boers had abandoned the ambition to create an independent Dutch republic in South Africa, and only desired to become another Commonwealth,
After some criticisms the House of Commons approved the granting of the Constitutions.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81908, 20 December 1906, Page 3
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112TRANSVAAL AND ORANGIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81908, 20 December 1906, Page 3
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