TRANSVAAL CONSTITUTION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9065, 10 April 1906, Page 5

TRANSVAAL CONSTITUTION

EXPLANATION BY MR LYTTELTON.

[PKESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received. April 10, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, April 9. Mr Lyttalton, late Colonial Secretary, in a letter to 'the press, in reply to Mr Winston Churchill's speech, says the educational test required at the Cape was omitted in the Transvaal constitution ac being possibly prejudicial to the Boers. The burghers entitled ty vote, Jot the first vyolkeTaaJd^ ■wouUJ, .retain" suffrage without further qualification. ■ The iconetdifcution was practically manhood suffrage, excluding only the indigent. The proportion of voters to the population was one-third compared to one-fourth a* the Gape and one-fifth at Natal.

THE ELECTORAL DISTRIBUTIONS.

(Received April 10,, 9.3 a.m.) LONDON, April 10.

The Times 1 says British South Africa welcomed Mir Winston Churchill's .admasieian that the distribution of electoral areas was by voters and not by population. The Government's attitude in the past unnecessarily created a feeling of soreness with the British whole encouraging the Boers to proceed upon purely racial lines.