CAPE POLITICS.
THE NEW GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph.— Press Assooiutlon.— Copyright. (Received February 4, 9.10 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 3rd February. The now Capo Cabinet is as under: — Mr. J. X. Merriman, Premier and Treasurer. Mr. Saver, Minister of Works. Mr. Malan, Minister of Agriculture. Mr. D. do Wall, Colonial Secretary. Mr. Burton, Attorney-General, Mr. Merriman, the new Premier, born in 1841, was a son of Bishop Merrimnn, of Grahamstown. He went to South Africa in 1849, and entered politics twenty years later. From 1875 to 187S and again in 1881 ho was in the Molteno Ministry, and later occupied responsible official positions. Mr. Saver is a lawyer as well as a politician. He was Colonial Secretary under Mr. Rhodes in 1893. Described as a "philanthropical Radical," ho refused a knighthood. The other members of the Cabinet have for some time been more or kss prominently identified with Cape politics. • x
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1908, Page 7
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