SOUTH AFRICAN FEDERATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8856, 5 July 1907, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICAN FEDERATION.

Press Association —Copyright. Capetown, July 4. .JLord Selbourne, in an extensive review of the question of South African federation, describes the historic causes of disunion, and dwells on the evil effects resulting from five disconnected Governments and the possibilities of dangerous conflicts of policy in connection with vital political and economic problems. He refers to Delagoa Bay reaping inordinate railway and other advantages and ruinously affecting the British ports, and suggests the pressing necessity of the consolidation of railway and other British interests in order to terminate this difficulty. Lord Selbourne argues that South Africa will be wisely and successfully governed only by a government responsible to a parliament representing- the whole of South Africa, and urges discussion of the subject within the present year. General Botha, while approving federation, dissents from Lord Selbome’s reference to Delagoa Bay, declaring that the attitude of the Transvaal towards Portugal will be always sincerely friendly.