SOUTH AFRICA.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 19 February 1909, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

♦ TRIBUTE TO AIR STEYN. ■• ■•■{ Press Association— Copvuigut.j ,' ' / . ' Capetown, Feb. 17. , . Dr Jameson paid a high tribute to , Mr Steyn for his- disinterested atti- > tude in connection with the bouth > "African Convention, and added that i the coloured -franchise would be sater ; with the Union Parliament than with r the Cape Parliament ._,-. - . Adelaide, Feb..-.10. ' The Mayor, General Downes, lias rel turned from South Africa. He states ■ that the Transvaal is slowly recover- ■ ing from the depression which follow- - ed the war. . ... ... , '. The old racial hatred is dying out, ■ and he believes the union of South • Africa will 1)3 an immense advantage 1 to the whole country.