SOUTH AFRICA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 80, 6 April 1910, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA.

POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS. REGARDED AS ONE. SPEECH BY SIR G. FARKAR. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— -Copyright. (Received April 6, 10 a.m.) PRETORIA, sth April. Sir George Farrar. a member of the' Legislative Assembly of Transvaal colony, and Leader of tho Opposition, in the course of a speech at a conference of the Transvaal Progressive Fedoration, declared that the Het Yolk, tho Orangi Unie, and the Afrikander Bond aro now regarded as one party. However willing General Botha (Transvaal Premier) had been to co-operate with the Progressive party, his retrograde followers were too strong. Sir George Farrar advised the Progressives to reorganise under Dr. Jameson (Progressive Leader). Their opponents, ho said, were fighting among themselves for tho Premiership. Ho urged South Africa to share in, the cost of the Imperial Navy. bilingual proposals, progressives"^ orangia ANGRY. (Received April G, 10 a.m.) BLOEMFONTEIN, sth April. Progiessive newspapers denounce the enforced resignation of Mr. Gunn, Director of Education in Orange River Colony, owing to General Hertzog's bilingual proposals. The Orange River Colony Parliament is considering a J!»ll providing for the extension of the bilingual principle among teachers. [One of the first acts of the present Ministry after the grant of responsible Government was tho repeal of the Crow.< Colony Education Law. Under that law English was the medium of instruction, and Dutch and English were taught as languages. The act of General Hertzog (Minuter for Education) compels «tvivy English child up to Standard IV. to receive instruction, in every subject, partly through the medium of Dutch, after Standard IV. at least three of iht> principal subjects of tho curriculum must also be taught through this medium, whikt tho study of Dutch as a language is compulsory after Standard III.J At the end of February General Botha replying to an address from the Het Yolk at Pietermaritzburg, expressed tho hope that at the coming elections for the South African Parliament it would not be a question of English versus Dutch, but how tho best men could "be "eturned. Last month, at a congress of Het Yolk (the Dutch political organisation in tho Transvaal), General Botha advised reorganisation on the broadest possible basis, so that every South African, of whatever nationality, might become a member. The speech did not mention the question M coalition. Het Yolk adopted a resolution on the lines of General Botha's speech. In a recent speech at Capetown, Dr. Jameson described the courso of his deliberations with General Botha, in England and afterwards in South Africa. Each of them, he said, had a shrewd idea of the terms that would bo acceptable to all sections of the South African people, and latterly ho (Dr. Jameson) had had interviews with prominent politicians of the four colonies and found that tho wero unanimonsly most willing to accept fair terms in order to further a Government of the best men. General Botha, when recently in Capo Town, had been as candid as over. They were both agreed, but the Transvaal Premier said he could not answer for all his supporters. The failure of tho negotiations did not affect the platform of the Progressives. They must be prepared to fight, though tho door had not been closed. If General Botha formed a Government of the beet men they were ready to help him. He could not believe that General Botha would be willing to head a Government planned by Mr. Merriman. If such a thing did happen tho reason would be that Genoral Bothn- was not stiong enough to overcome tho reactionaries. Iro that case ho (Dr. Jameson) needed a strong Opi position in order to attain their ideal sooner.