SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 179, 8 November 1910, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

THE EMPIRE'S NEW PARTNER. STIRRING UTTERANCE BY THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Capetown, November 6. At the official dinner at Government House the Duke of Connaught, in a lengthy speech, said that the occasion marked the first great stage in the growth of the youngest of the unified self-governing white communities which were united together in a great partnership of the Empire. Thenceforward South Africa ranked equally with the •ther partners of the Empire in possessing a single Parliament to deal with the affairs of the country, which by nature was intended to be one. They had reached a vantage ground from which it was profitable to survey the dark and lurid pages of the past, and read what they could of the future. South Africans would grow up in an environment of true liberty filled with that patriotism akin to love, which Britons, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders had for the countries of their birth and instinct like them with the wider patriotism which makes us all alike, co-partners in the brotherhood of the British Empire. HIGHER EDUCATION. Capetown, November 6. Mr. Otto Beit has agreed to divert to the creation of a teaching university at Groote Sehuur the £ -200,000 bequeathed by Mr. Alfred Beit for the foundation of a university at Johannesburg. Mr. i Weruher will also give £300,000. | ROYAL TOUR PROPHESIED. Received 7, 9.35 p.m. Capetown, November 7. The Duke of Connaught's speech at the opening of Parliament expressing King George's regret at his inability to visit South Africa has evoked attention throughout South Africa, and the newspapers unanimously acclaim the prospect of the King and Queen visiting at no distant date the principal centres of the Empire. DOMINION DELEGATES' TOUR. VISITING THE CHIEF TOWNS. Received 7, 9.35 p.m. Capetown, November 7. Messrs Fisher and Fowlds have started for KnnbeTley. Thereafter they will visit the Victoria Falls, Buluwayo, Johannesburg, Lorenzo Marques, Maritzburg, Bloemfontein, Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth, returning to Capetown on December 14. THE LAST REGAL FUNCTION. Received 8, 1.22 a.m. Capetown, November 7. The Duke of Connaught's final function at Capetown consisted of visiting the industrial fair organised by the local Y'.M.CA. He expressed his appreciation of the exhibition, and congratulated the Association. The Royalties met with an enthusiastic reception.