SOUTH'AFRICA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 121, 22 May 1908, Page 7

SOUTH' AFRICA.

CLOSER UNION ADVOCATED. SPEECH BY TRANSVAAL PREMIER. Bf Telegraph.— fitm AwoeUMon.— Copyrl»ht PRETORIA, 21st May. General Botha, the Premier, speaking at Potohefstroom, said that closer union of the South African colhis hearers expected. He declared that he and his colleagues would go with open minds 'to the National Convention that is to be held to draw up a Federal Constitution j but they intended to secure equal rights for all white in< habitants of the country. The Inter-colonial Conference which recently sat at Pretoria arranged for the holding of a National Convention to deal with the question of union. The convention is to consist of twelve delegates from Cape Colony, eight from the Transvaal, and five each from Natal and Oranqia. It is said that the conference desired to concentrato all power of deciding the course of events, after the convention has met, in the hands of the Governments, and not the Parliaments of the different colonies. A vehement opposition to unification as the form of closer union of the South African colonies has arisen in Natal. The delegates to the Pretoria conference have been accused of shamelessly attempting to rush the question through. The Mercury declared that "Natal is able to stand alone, and she refuses to be coerced." Ihe South ■ African, News, white approving) tho resolutions adopted by the conference, suggested the popular election of delegates. The Cape Times denounced tho resolutions, on the grounds that a big State would be given power to squeeze a smaller one, and that no provision was made to submit the convention's decisions to the people.

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