UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

Evening Star, Issue 14516, 7 November 1910, Page 6

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

A NEW TJOTVERSITY HALL. MAYORAI/I^EPTION. A BIG 'TIMES' EDITION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, November 5. Tho Duko of ConnaughtTlaid the foundation stono of the University Hall in the morning. The Council presented, an addrees. The Duko said thai the King, as Chancellor, would always take the keenest interest in tho University' 6 welfare. He (tho Duke of Connaught) hoped that tlie necessary funds would be. forthcoming to convert the University into a teaching and residential university. Fifteen hundred people were present at a brilliant mayoral reception in the (Sty Hall in honor of tho Duko and Duchess of Connaught, who will attend the cathedral in the morning. MR CHAMBERLAIN'S ADVICE. LONDON. November 5. To-day's issue of 'The Times' comprised eighty pages, owing to the inclusion of a South Afzican supplement. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, in the couth© of a letter, urges the extension and improvement of South African agricidtare, and the adoption of more scientific methods, especially in farming. MUNIFICENT GIFTS. ANSWERING THE DUKE'S APPEAL. CAPE TOWN, November 6. (Received November 7, at 8.15 a.m.) Mr Otto Beit has agreed to divert to the creation of a teaching university at Grooteschnur the sum of £200,000, bequeathed by Mr Alfred Beit for the foundation of a •university at Johannesburg. Mr Wernher adds a further £300,C03. MEMBERS OF A GREAT PARTNERSHIP. THE. BROTHERHOOD OF EMPIRE CAPE TOWN, November 6. (Received November 7, at 8.30 a-m.) In the course of a lengthy speech at an official dinner given at Government House, His Royal Highness the Duko of Connaught said that tho occasion marked the first great stage in the growth of the youngest of the unified self-governing white communities, which wore united together in the great partnership of the British Empire. Thenceforward South Africa- ranked equally with the older partings in the Empire. In possessing a single. Parliament to deal with tho affairs of a country which by Nature was intended to be one, they had reached a vantage ground whereon it was profitable to survey the dark and lurid pages of the past, and to read what they could of the future. South Africans would grow up in an environment of true- liberty, and filled with a patriotism akin to the love with which Britons, Canadians, Australians, and Nen r Zealanders had for the countries of their birth, and instinct, like them, with that wider patriotism, which makes us all aliko co-partners in the brotherhood of the British Empire.