SOUTH AFRICA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 60, 12 March 1906, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE FORTHCOMING ELECTIONS

EVIDENT HETVOLK MAJORITY

SIR H. C. BANNERMAN'S COM

MITTEE

[press association.] (Received March 12, 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March .10. / Statistics of Johannesburg show 61,211 more women and children in the country districts than WitwatersT rand. If the election is carried out oh a population basis, the excess will give the Hetvolk a majority of ten members. ' ■ . ~

johannesburgers declare that Sir H. C. Barinerman's Committee, if impartial, will remove the erroneous ideas existing in the Motherland. All sections are anxious for an early settlement.