SOUTH AFRICA
CLOSER UNION: SHALL CAPETOWN BE CAPITAL? PREFERENCE TO BRITAIN. SY TELKCP.APn—PCES3 ASSOCIATION— COPXBIOHI Pretoria, May (7. At tho Intercolonial Conforonco being hold here, during a debate on the' Customs question, tho delegates from Capo and .Orange River Colonies ■ acquiesced, for tho sako of uniformity, in tho continuanco of proferenco to Britain, reserving to themselves the right to raise; objections later. , It was apparent that the Conference was indisposed to disturb arrangements unnecossarily, pending tho progress of the movement for the closer union of the' South African colonies. London, May 7. Tho Capetown correspondent of "Tho Times" reports that visitors from tho Transvaal declare that the feeling against Capetown as the Federal 1 capital is almost gone; General Botha, the Transvaal Premier, is believed, to'favour Capetown." ,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 5
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