THE TRANSVAAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8117, 11 April 1906, Page 5

THE TRANSVAAL.

MR LYTTELTOI-i'S SOiiEME. Received April 10, 7.35 a.m. LONDON, April 9,. Mr iyttelton, late Secretary for the Colonies, in a letter to the press, in reply to Mr Winston Churchill's speech attacking him in regard to the Transvaal Constitution, said an educational test was requirec in Cape Colony, but omitted from the Transvaal Constitution as possibly prejudicial to the Boers. Burghers entitled to vote for the first Volksraad retain the suffrages without further qualification. The constitution, Mr Lyttelton declares, practically conferred manhood suffrage excluding only the indigent. The proportion of votes to population was one-third as compared with one-fourth iu Cape Colony, and one-fifth in Natal. THE TIMES ON THE BASIS OP VOTING. Be3eived April 10, 9.3 a.m. LONDON, April 9. The Times says the British in South Africa have welconerl Mr Winston Churchill's admission that the distribution of the electoral areas will be by voters, and not by population or a scientific fair working basis, and are unperturbed by his suggestions that the existing franchise ought to be widened. The Government's attitude iu the past had unneoessarily created a feeling of soreness among the British, while euoouraging the, Boers to proceed on purely racial lines.

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