WHY REDISTRIBUTION IS NECESSARY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11279, 21 May 1902, Page 7

WHY REDISTRIBUTION IS NECESSARY.

TTnitod Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph—Copyright. (Received May 20th, 10.42 p.m.) a_PETOWN, May 20. • Mr Runciman, mem_er for Constantia, has issued a manifesto on behalf of forty* six.Colonial ImperiaL Progressive members. He declares the suspension of the constitution was imperative, and that the Dutch themselves are anxious for it. The colony should have' rest for two or three years, in order to avoid the acrimony incidental to ejections. Sir J. G. Sprigg's majority of eight implies that three or four men rule, and compel him to make compromises, with the consequent weakening of any measures submitted. Loyalists were entitled to demand a redistribution of seats on a numerical basis. Such a proposal, however, would never pass the present Parliament. Redistribution was the on_y method of maintaining Loyalist supremacy. Sir J. G. Sprigg believed that federation would begin from within, qjid that would, in his (Mr Runcimaa's) opinion, consume years, and other colonies meanwhile would unite to boycott the Cope .commercially and 'poli- . tically.