UNITY OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 95, 20 October 1908, Page 5

UNITY OF SOUTH AFRICA.

Press Assn — Bytelegratto-^-Copyright. DURBA^ yesterday. At the Governi^ejfe^ banquet at DurWn, given in'honQ^'of the visit of th> British sqtfaarj&n, the speeches chiefly Referred fe^tiobirit of hopefulness yrfrb. Tegais^O/S&uth African «nity. .■■•." . . • ", ■' v V r ' " : ." : . . ;. Mr. J. De yilK4fs;she Transvaal Attorney-General, jS^jjE , that he regretted that the,, .^onyfiiition was . a secret one, as the sfjsj^i^anlike utterancejs oifthe delegates! ;v\ r ere well calculated, to convincgf the public and to secure a satisfactory solution, of the matter. ' ''' ' ' .

Mr J. C. Smuts (Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal) appealed to the public to banish suspioitfris that the Conretition was either hostile to Natal -or to the British throughout South Africa. On th^ eontrfcry, the dele-gates-were trying on? W basis of perfect equality and justice to secure an enduring non-racial settlement of the Suestion; Although peace between lie British and ßoers, was concluded at Yereenigingv yet Aintil a further larger step had been , taken there would remain a certain element of disunion and discoid: The Convention, he trusted, would" perfect, the -work-begun at Vereenigitig,' otherwise State bickerings might strangle South Africa's fixture. ..The people must make sacrifices to' secure the high ideal — "one State/ one Government, one people." ...