ORANGE RIVER COLONY.
CAPETOWN February 24. Mr Steyn, speakui" at Wynburg, " referring to the South African Constitution, declared that delegates from the Orange River Colony, perhaps from pride, abstained from making the request, but the Convention" imanimously agreed with Dr Jameson's suggestion to restore the title of Orange Free State to the oenntry.
Natal has all along favoured federation as opposed to unification, that is to say a Federal Government and State Governments, as m Australia, as opposed to a single Parliament for the whole, country, as m Great Britain. Thn Constitution drawn up by the Convention is a compromise between unification and federation, with more of the former than the latter. Natal has been described as being proud of her distinctive characteristics, dreading absorption m a union where the predominant majority must for the first five years inevitably be of Dutch descent, mid above all things resolved not to lie down under the dictation of the Transvaal.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXiX, Issue 7730, 25 February 1909, Page 2
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