TRANSVAAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8196, 28 July 1906, Page 5

TRANSVAAL.

THB NEW CONSHTUITONS. Receive! July 27, 8.30 a.m. LOND"N, July 26. Sir Percy Fitzpatriok and hiß col leagues, who are visiting England in the interests of the Trausvaal Progressive Party, have published a statement insisting that any modification of Mr Lytteltoo'a basis of representation would seriously jeopardise British supremacy in the Transvaal and South Africa.

MATTER DISCUSSED WITH

LORD ELGIN

Received July 27, 9.39 p.m. LONDON, July 27

Sir Percy Fitzpatriok aud his colleagues disoussed the South African constitution with Lord Elgin. The Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons urged (hat the question should be treated in no partisan Bpirit. It is understood that Lord Elgin was unsympathotio. Sir Henry Campbell Banuerman refuses to publish Sir West Ridgeway's report. He will annouuce the Government policy to-day.

AN APPEAL FOR SYMPATHY.

Received July 27, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, July 27. Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, on behalf of the Transvaal Progressives, has appealed for sympathy to trie other British colonies, Great Britain, said Sir Percy, is now face to face with a more critical period of South African history than ever. Since her territory and interests extend from Table Bay to Zambesi any peril to the permanence of the British institutions in South Africa means the dismemberment of the Empire. If, through the mistaken magnanimity of the British Government, the Transvaal is to be given to the Dutch to administer, and Orangia given practical independence—for there will not be five British representatives in the Orangia Legislature—then the future of the British flag, and of all that British oivilizatiun means, will become the merest gamble. Every colony in the Empire must bo awaiting with intense anxiety the details of the new Transvaal constitution There was reason to fear that the safeguards will not be sufficient to prevent the first representatives of responsible administration in the country lately won by the sword from being controlled by Kruger's old reactionary Ministers, who denied equal rights to all white men. It was impossible to believe that the outside colonies would not try to influence the B.itish Government in order to nake the Transvaal and Orangia absolutely secure to the Crown through the British administration.

A REPORT DENIED,

Reoeived July 28, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, July 2G,

Beater's Agency denies the report that the Prince and Princess of Wales will visit South Afrioa to open the Trausvaal and Orange Free State Parliaments when responsible government is granted.