SOUTH AFRICA.
THE STEEL INDUSTRY
Press Assodation-Bv Telegraph Copyright. PRETORIA, Marc-U 2.
Mr .T. C. Smuts, Colonial Secretary of the. Transvaal, announces that steel of the highest quality has been manufactured from ore mined at Pretoria. The Transvaal will shortly establish an iron industry.
COST OF TROOPS. Received 11.10 li.m., March 3rd. LONDON, March 3. Tim year's cost of British troops in South Africa was £2,273,000. TN BASIJTOLAND. CAPETOWN, March 3. Viscount Selborne reviewed .20,000 Basnto horsemen at Meserna. Tn addressing Pilso, ]ie said it was impossible for Basutoland to ultimately remain outside the union, but a- change would secure their country and maintain the national council.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13844, 4 March 1909, Page 5
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