SOUTH AFRICAN CAPITAL.
DIURBAINV February 2. The tension in the South. African Convention, over the selection of •■» site for the capital' continues, and several delegates Lureaten to leave..
Neither the Transvaal nor the Cape representatives *re prepared to givs way, and_tihie main chance of a successful conclusion seems, to-.lie in a compromise, Capetown 'becoming thi legislative eaipital with the Feder.il Parliament. Pretoria, the administrative capita:!, with the Civil Servii>3 nnd Blomefontein the judicia.ry headquarters. . ,
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Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10632, 4 February 1909, Page 2
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