TRANSVAAL CONSTITUTION.

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11812, 17 December 1906, Page 4

TRANSVAAL CONSTITUTION.

Received Decemmber 15, 4.44 p.m. Capetown, December 15. The Onsland, the'Het Yolk organ, says that the voters' residence quail- < fication is too short because of j the floating population, and the j large nominated Council is*"disap- { pointing. The Onsland had hoped c that the Imperial Governent would [ have amended this, removing all | appearance of distrust. r ||With the fc nominated Council the Constitution | does not bestow full^J responsible a government, and the framers of the i Constitution have taken remarkable g pains to safeguard^British interests, l Brstly, by a nominated Council, 5 secondly by a conference of both 7 bouses to settle disagreements when 1 tbe Upper House may convert a 1 popular majority into a minority, n thirdly by Imperial veto. The paper £ idds that the Chinese ' labour stipu- \ lations are satisfactory^ i liirf r