SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 19 September 1910, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS.

FURTHER RESULTS. By Cable.- -Press Association.—Copyright Capetown, September 17. Mr. Moore, late Premier of Natal, and now Minister of Commerce and Industries, has been defeated at Kennan. Mr. Cullinan (Nationalist) defeated t Mr. Bain (Labor). Mr. Haairoff (Independent) was elected for Pretoria North. Many seats have been offered to Mr. , Louis Botha, who has accepted the offer of Sianderton. The miners largely supported the Unionists. So far the state of parties is:— > Nationalists 52 I Unionists 36 ' Independents . . io I Labor 4 Total 10a t • THE STRENGTH OF THE PARTIES. London, September 16. r The Times' Capetown correspondent i states that the probable final result is. . estimated at Nationalists 64, Unionists i 40. s The Natal results are:—Nationalists p 12, Labor 4, Independent 1. The Morning Post attributes the , Unionist successes to Hertzogism. > The Standard states that Mr. Botha 1 probably regrets not forming a Coalij tion Cabinet. r BOTHA'S STRONG FOLLOWERS. Received September 18, 5.5 p.m. } Capetown, September 17. I In sixteen out of seventeen seats in Grangia, the Nationalist holders are r pledged to the extension of Hertzogism. , A MAJORITY FOR BOTHA. ' Received; September IS, 5.5 p.m. London, September 17. , The Times' Johannesburg correspon- • dent states that General Botha's follow- , ing is approximately 67, giving a clear majority of 13. Most of the Natal and Cape Colony Independents are to co-oper* ate with the Unionists. [ BOTHA'S v. JAMESON'S POLITICS. Received September 18, 5.5 p.m. London, September 17. The Daily Telegraph states that there is practically no difference between General Botha's and Dr. Jameson's politics concerning South Africa's position in the Empire. Perhaps General Botha's hardest task was to infuse his own moderation into the men clinging to ancient prejudices. ' The Times states that Dr. Jameson consistently proclaimed that the Union--1 ists' task was to support General Botha B against followers' who resisted the con- ' tention that Dr. Jameson's success at r the polls was the best possible augury for assuring the growth of freer divisions of political opinions, and strengthening the influence of the beßt men. / THE RESULT EXPLAINED. a 1 Received September 19, 12.20 a.m. Capetown, September 18v B The Cape Times explains the result r of the elections to be a protest against = General Botha's refusal to form a none party administration and against the spirit of sectional and race division . whereto some of his colleagues, especially General Hertzog, had' appealed.