SOUTH AFRICA.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 12956, 22 November 1910, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

THE ViSITINg REPRESENT!- <■" ;; : - ';" . Ti\ r ES. : ..." :';'': : ■ ENTORTAINMENT AT JOHANNESburg. : [Press Association— Copyright.] „ Capetown, Nov 21. : ■■• Tlie Major of- Johannesburg, in toasting Messrs Fisher and Fowlds at the banqiiet.in their, honour, thanked their respective Government for sending representatives to the celebration of the South African, Union ;:: - ■ ; Mr Fisher, in respQuding, said, he hoped that the South African Premier one day would accept an invitation to visit Australia. He welcomed the suggestion of closer union' witli New- Zealand, as all the interests of .the Southern Seas were alike. History would show whether Australia, so close to the gates of the great Asiatic ; Em-r pirej had done wrong in insisting on training every youth to arms. . They had to take mea_sures fpr defence,' and the inculcation of the national sentiment. That was the reason" for their navy, which, if it cost £10,000,---000, would have to-be provided. .He believed that. the people of Australia were prepared to pay the price. ■ M,'r Fowlds said that 'there were many reasons why New Zealand should maintain her position of splendid iso- | latioh. If the people of South Africa 'only emulated the spirit of gejier.osity which prompted; the statesmen of England to make. a* Union possible, they - must g6 forward And prosper. He urged justice towards the natives.