SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 18, 15 February 1909, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

London, jjebruury 12. Ihc Times' Capetown correspondent says that some people disapprove of th» exclusion of natives from Parliament; they also urge the extension of the Cape | native franchise throughout all the colonies. Such objections, he says, do not mar the general satisfaction' berao expressed. | SAFEGUARDING THE INTERESTS OF THE BLACKS. [ Received February 14, 4.15 p.m. : Capetown, February 14. Mr. W. I*. Sclireincr says that certain provisions in the Constitution inadequately safeguarded the rights of the non-European majority, and fears that they will jeopardise the Cape coloured! franchise, which future Parliaments can abolish on a two-thirds majority. BLEMISHES IN THE CONSTITUTION. BRITISH GOVERNMENT CRITICISED. Received February 14, 4.15 p.m. ai ~» , I ' olldm . I'Vluuarv IS. Mr Alfred Lyttelton Secretary), speaking at Stourbridge di-'l dared that while adhering to the con- f vic-tion that the Unionists' policy in respect to South Africa was right, as forming an essential stage of the evolution of a united South Africa, warnilv eulogised and reciprocated the generous utterances of both British and Dutch statesmen, the authors of the Constitution, but warned Mr. Asquith of some blemishes, especially a„ itgards the position of Indians and the retrenched officials, also of grave dispute amongst British farmers in Orangia. i