SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13884, 8 November 1910, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

SPEECH BY THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT.

United Fres. A»jcci»tion-By Electrio ' ! lelegraph~C<.py r igi_t. - ] CAPETOWN, November 0. - j At an official dinner at Government J i House, tho Duke of Connaught, in . I the course of a lengthy speech, said . : that tho occasion marked the first i great stage in tho growth of thto I youngest of the unified self-governing ! white communities, which were united i together in the groat partnership of tho . ' Empire. Thenceforward South Africa ■ i ranked equally with its older partI j ncrs in the Empire, in possessing a . | single Parliament to deal with tbe > j affairs of the country, which by r I Nature was intended to bo one. lib ; j had reached a vantage ground wherej , irom it wa.s profitable to survey tho s i dark and lurid pages of tho past, and r I read what it could of tho future. ° , South Africans would grow up in an r | environment of true, liberty, filled n ; with a patriotism which was akin to * ! the love which Britons, Canadians, Ausi tralians, and New Zealanders had for ' the countries of their birth, and they j would gain by instinct that -wider j patriotism which make all alike co- ! partners in the great brotherhood of " i the British Empire. o I