SOUTH AFRICA.
THE NEW UNION MINISTRY
VISCOUNT GLADSTONE. GENERAL BOTHA THE PREMIER [BY ELECTMO TELEGRAPH —COPYBIGHT.] TPKK PBESB ASSOCIATION.! Capetown, May 19. It is understood that General Botha has consented to form the first Union Ministry. Viscount Gladstone, with tho Prime Ministers of the Cape, Natal, Orangia, and the Transvaal, and many politicians and citizens, farewelled Lord Selbourne aboard the Armadale Castle at Cape Town. Tho scene was a striking one. Newspapers pay a tribute to Lord Selbourne's unfailing impartiality, and declare that ho has striven to obliterate racial prejudices and divisions. An informal conference of the various South African Ministers is proceeding at Cape Town. It is "expected that Viscount Gladstone will confer with the eladsr today. There is a strong feeling that the Premiership question must be settled without delay. Viscount Gladstone will be shown in at the Government House.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1187, 21 May 1910, Page 1
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