A NOTABLE DAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 127, 1 June 1910, Page 7

A NOTABLE DAY.

UNITED SOUTH AFRICA. THE FIRST CABINET. OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED. Bj Telegraph.— Frees Association.— Copyiight, CAPETOWN, 31st May. The South African Cabinet is officially announced as. follows: — General Louis Betha (Premier of Transvaal, and Commanier-in-Chief of th* Boer Farces after the death of General Joubert), Prime MiuiEter ana Minister for Agriculture. General J. C. Smuts (Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal, and at one time Commissioner for Swaziland), Minis-, ter of the Interior, Mines, and Do* fence. Mr. J. W. Saver (a lawyer by profession, and Commissioner of Public Works, Cape Colony), Minister of Railway* and Harbours. General J. B. M. Hertzog (Attorney-Gen, eral and Director of Education fop Orange River Colony), Minister ofi Justice. Hon. H. C. Hull (Treasurer, Transvaal), Minister of Finance. Mr. F. S. Maian (a member of the Cap«n Legislature for several years, and a member of the Cabinet, as Secretary for Agriculture since 1908), Minister of Education. Mr. Abraham Fischer (Premier of Orange River Colony, and Chairman of th« Orangie Unie), Minister for Lands , Mr. H. C. Burton, K.C., (Attorney-Gen, eral, Cape Colony), Minister of Na* tive Affaire. Mr. F. R. Moor (Premier of Natal sine* 1906), Minister of Commerce and liw dustries). Mr. D. P. Be Villiers Graaff, Minisfcer-o$ Public Works and Post and Tet« 7 ' graphs. Mr. C. O'Grady Gubbins (Natal), Mini*, tcr without portfolio. THANKSGIVING SERVICES. IN ALL SOUTH AFRICAN CHURCHES. „, , .. CAPETOWN, 31st May. Inanksgiving service for the birth of the Union were held in every church- in. South Africa this morning, except whera the combined services had been arranged! an the open ah-. Ten thousand school children paraded at Johannesburg and; sang hymns. •> " ' Union Jack tableaux descriptive of th« Union were also arranged. 31st May was cho&sn as the date on which the Union should become operative, ifeat being tho date of the signing at Pretoria of tha Vereemging Peace Treaty. AT PRETORIA CATHEDRAL. LORD GLADSTONE TAKES THE OATH. -GOVERNOR-GENERAL CREATES A* GOOD IMPRESSION. (Received June 1, 9.30 a.m.) PRETORIA, 31st May. Lord and Lady Gladstone, members of the Cabinet, and a large congregation, attended a special service at Pretoria Cathedral. Thence the Governor-General, the Ministers, the Chief Justice, ant other judges proceeded to the Legi&latiwi Assembly Chamber. It was a eombr» gathering, owing to the mounting for King Edward. The Commission appointing Lord Gladstone was read in English and Dutch, and then Lord Gladstone, who on 19th May, at Capetown, had been sworn a« High Commissioner, took the oath as Governor-General. The oaths were next administered to members of the Cabinet. Lord and Lady Gladstone created ft good impression. AUSTRALIAN CONGR-A- '"' TULATIONS. (Received June 1, 9.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE. This Day. The Federal Prime Minister (Mr. A* Fisher) and the Stale Premier (Mr. Murray) sent cable messuages of oongr*tulation to Lord Gladstone on th© a&* complishment of South African union.