SOUTH AFRICA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8106, 29 March 1906, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

STEYN AND CO.'S VIEWS.

Received March 28, 9.11 a.m. CAPEIOWN, MarohTf

The Bloemfontein newspaper, The Friend, the organ of Messrs Steyn, De Wet, JJerfczog, and Fischer, says* —"When we get self-government we shall repudiate any convention, including preference for British goods, and expel all British civil servants.

THE COMMISSION'S INSTRUCTIONS. Received March 28, 10.12 p.m. LONDON, March 28. Sir Henry Oampbell-Bannerman, Premier, has declined to facilitate an early discussion on the instructions given to Sir West Ridgeway's Committee. Sir Gilbert Parker asked if the Committee had been instructed to keep in view the paramount necessity of maintaining British institutions in the Transvaal and Orangia, and preserving the colonies as integral partd of the Empire. The Premier replied in the negative. The Government, he said, did not intend to transfer their responsibility to any Committee. Sir Gilbert Parker then wished to move the adjournment of the House. The Speaker withheld his consent to the motion, on the ground that there was ample time to discuss tbw instructions before the Committee reached South Africa.

BOER ASPIRATIONS

THE OLD IDEAL.

AN AFRIKANDER FEDERATION.

Reoeived Maroh 29, 12.40 a.m.

CAPETOWN, March 28

The Bloemfontein Post says that Dr Smuts aad Messrs Esselen, Hertzog and Fischer, at a recent meeting, discussed the closer union of the Transvaal, and decided that a preliminary step must be the absorption of Orangia in a union of the Hetvolk and the former, and a bond to promote Afrikander federation when responsible government is granted.

THE LAWS.

THE GOVERNMENT URGED TO RETAIN THE CONTROL.

Received Maroh 29, 12.48 a.m. LONDON, March 28.

Lord Milner, in the, House of Lords, urged that the Government, in granting responsible government to the Transvaal and Orangia colonies, should keep the land laws in its own control, thus allaying the alarm of British settlers.

THE FORMATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.

FURTHER INFORMATION NECESSARY.

Reoeived Maroh 29, 12.48 a.m. LONDON, Maroh 28.

Lord Elgin, Colonial Secretary, said, in the House of Commons, that the Government were unable to answer some of the questions raised, until they obtained the information necessary for the formation of the Constitution.