SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.
TH£ COVERNIfIEHT DEFEAT. {Bt EnOnUC T*iIGEATH—COPYRIGHT [United Phem (Received 8.40 a.m.) Capetown, June 12. The Capetown Government, will not resign, considering that the sacrifice of the session’s labors would be detrimental to the country’s interests. General Botha, in the Assembly, said i!hat though defeated on a question of detail, the Government attached no importance thereto. Unless they received fuller support in the future they would not be justified in remaining in office. (Received ( J.O a.m.) Speaking on the motion which led to the Parliamentary crisis, Mr Smith contended that the State’s sixty per cent, share of the Premier mine was equivalent to a fifteen per cent, profit-tax. Parliament, he said, was not free to impose further taxation. Laborites, Hertzogites, and ten Ministerialists voted with the majorvity.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 44, 13 June 1914, Page 6
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