SOUTH AFRICA.
LORD SELBORNE ON THE CONSTITUTION.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrieht. (Received March Ist. 10.35 p.m.) CAPETOWN, March 1. Lord Selborne, in an address at Capetown University, strongly opposed the breaking; up of Basiltoland and other native reserves, and allotting them to whites. He declared that the natives were entitled to a share in the land. Ho deprecated a uniform franchise, and advocated the appointment of a Commission of judges to enfranchise civilised natives, and the institution of renresentative Councils of unenfranchised natives with freedom of speech, but no powers.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13362, 2 March 1909, Page 7
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