THE TRANSVAAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12902, 13 February 1906, Page 5

THE TRANSVAAL.

ori-x letteu. WHAT THK I.ATI'. SKCRKTAF.Y HAS 1 IT) .SAY. • United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 10.7 p.m.. Februarv 12th. LONDON. February 12. The Hou. A. Lytteiton, late Secretary of

State for the Colonies, in a , Seller So ihc "Times," commenting on the reports Uj;jS. the Government were meditating j3ic donmcnt of odo vote, ono value, nxl -substituting a system of giving £?v-i3« 7 ivcjghi to the man living in the ct<u-iiiy ib.-m i.bc man living in the town, ssid t3»»* he «»uld not bring himself to believe liw" Cabinet containing good men and true patriot* could, in the initial plenitude puwer and authority, lend themselves to $« and disastrous a po'icy. The late (tovo-nmcftt had adopted' ibo system after mam* amuihs of free discission, and the Tnms'v.jsil ijad showed that the general opinion «»f the community and panics. .-Si.irji'iy (ij&iir.j na other very material points." were focrwi agreed. Xo petition againM the principle had been presented, no whisper «»f < rilidsm had been offered in iiio. House Goatm<ns debate on July 9th. On unc i trarv. Sir H. Campbell-Bannenmn distinctly approved of the electoral Moreover it was; a fallacy t«* 3hat it had been deviled to secure the mine-ow-ners' ascendency inasmuch as the number of British workmen in the Rsnd -mine was sufficient to obliterate the injr.<- «-.vnc.j> in an election. Continuity of the c<.!onia,T policy was essential, ©-specially in South Africa, where vacillation was nnivemlly I despised, and a strong and s-taKlc policy commands the respect and goodwill «f .ill races. I

The "Times'" say* tli-»S- a population census and new demarcation of bontidsrits" would postpone self-government for two years. Moreover the Commission had been working for some time 0:1 dcmjuc-slinn «n the present basis. I* must he remtro tared that to grant immediate responsible government would be a great concession. This had brought the two British parties in the Transvaal into lice, bat also into line against the charges of sapping the foundations of British power.