SOUTH AFRICA.
_ » ~.., NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER. Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright LONDON, Nor. 13. The Right Hon. W. P. Sohroincr. K!C, 0.M.G., ex-Prim© Minister or" South Africa, and brother of the celebrated novelist, Olive Schreiner, has. been appointed High Commissioner for South Africa in London, succeeding Sir Richard Solomon. [Mr Shreiner was Attorney-General in Mr Rhodes'a Ministry, and afterwards became . Prime Minister, with the support ci the Afrikander Bond. His position was a most difficult and, delicate one during 1899 and 19D0, and there wore many, who charged.- him with disloyalty, mainly because ho allowed ammunition to pass through the colony to the Fro© State before the war, and neglected to put the frontier towns in a position to defend themschiPs; Ho retired from puhlia life in 1904.]
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15505, 16 November 1914, Page 6
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