THE SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 9136, Issue 9136, 8 February 1910, Page 3

THE SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) LONDON, Feb. 7. The Daily Mail's Capetown corres- ] tondent reports that General Louis Botha, General J. C. Smuts/and Dr Jameson are willing to assist in forming a non-party Government, but Mr Merrican has detached the Cape leaders of the Afrikander Bond. Mr Merriman, speaking at Worcester, after a consultation with General Botha, who is at Capetown, advised the Progressives to "get out of the little cock-boat coalition idea " which emanated from Throgmorton Street. The Union Government would need all possible criticism. The South African Party embraced national iecling in a broad way; it looked forward to managing its own affairs without interference. Mr Merriman added: "My idea of a Progressive is a man who is fond of borrowing, who wants to imitate Australia, who admires the Imperial South African Association, which we loathe, who has one eye on South Africa, and the other on the English

Stock Exchange." Mr Merriman deprecated the amalgamation of Afrikander Bond, Orangia, and Hetvolk, but the three might constitute a . United South African Party, which ho hoped would be the dominating party of the future.