SOUTH AFRICAN SENATE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 948, 15 October 1910, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN SENATE.

APPOINTMENTS MADE. By Teiojfraph— Press Association—Copyright. Pretoria, October 13. Official appointments to the. Union Senate have been made as follows:— Messrs. Brebner, Southey, Moor, Schreiner, and Colonel Stanford. . . The last four represent native, interests., ■ '■ .■ ";.'V Mr. Jameson, of Cape Colony, sits for Albany. -•> . .. The first: South African 1 Senate will consist of 64 Senators/ Each of the four provinces of ' the Union—Cape 'of : Good. Hope,., Natal,*- -.Transvaal, and Orange IVee State—will..' be represented by eight nominated/- and '' eight elected. Senators. The : nominated ' . Senators will ' be /appointed by the Governor-General-in-Council (four of whom are to be 1 selected mainly for their. ■ acquaint-! ,ance. with; the-! .reasonable; --wants ' ;and wishes of the coloured races), and :. ; the remainder ; will'. be elected Dy the two' Houses, of the . Legislature in. each - pro-' yince sitting' together., ; The, constitution, of, Senate ; can' be altered after, ten .years. Each Senator. . must bo i a British subject of ,European descent, at least;3o y'ears.-of : age, qualified!; as a voter 'in one of the -provinces,'., and resident: for'. ' five, , years within the Union; an elected . senator, must be registered owner,, of. .property, worth JCSOO. over any . mortgage, ;S:j