A MAGNIFICENT EXPERIMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 179, 21 August 1909, Page 2

A MAGNIFICENT EXPERIMENT

SOUTH AFRICAN UNITY. BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright Received 20, 10.45 p.m. London, August 20. The South African Bill paseed through the committee of the House of Commons.

Mr. Balfour (Leader of the Opposition) supported Mr. Asquith's resistance to Radical and Laborite amendments concerning the color bar. The Bill was later read a third time, Mr. Lupton being the only dissentient. Mr. Asquith, commending Parliament for yielding to the considered judgment ui South Africa, hoped the views so strougly expressed in the House of Commons, practically without dissen 1 , would induce the Union l'ailiani ';it sooner or later—sooner rather than later—to spontaneously relax what the majority of the members of the House of Commons regarded as unnecessary restrictions upon the electoral rights an l ! eligibility of our native fellow-subjects of South Africa. He. added that the House of Commons wished to present a magnificent experiment and wish it all possible success. Mr. VV. H. Long, on behalf of the Opposition, endorsed in the strongest an i most cordial way .Mr. Asquith's statesmanlike speech, representing, as it -uid, the whole of the House of Commons. (Cheers).