ORANGE RIVER COLONY.
CONSTITUTION PROMULGATED By Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright (Received July 3, 12.40 a.m.) Capetown, July 2. Lord Selborne, High Commissioner for South Africa, promulgated the Constitution of the Orange River Colony, the ceremony being a brilliant one. It was originally proposed to settle the constitutional questions affecting file Transvaal and the Orange River Colony simultaneously. Finally, ifc was decided to deal with them separately, as the conditions obtaining in the two colonies were different, the people of the Orange River Colony being more distinctively a Boer population.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13480, 3 July 1907, Page 7
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