TRANSVAAL.
commercial disasters and depression.
LONDON, July 27. Though there has been an excellent gold output, uommeroial disasters and depression are on the increase in the Transvaal. Acute anxiety is felt lest Bo6r supremacy should be restored.
A STIRRING POEM.
LONDON, July 27. Mr Rudyard Kipling has written a stirring poem against the Government's restoration of the Boers to the supremacy of the Transvaal.
SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTI TUTION.
SPEECH BY MR BALFOUR
Received July 29, 4.35 p.m. LONDON, July 28. Mr A. Balfour, speaking at the Albert Hal!, said that he regretted that the South African constitution was made a party question. Anything was preferable to the intolerable meddling with colonial eco* nomio concerns. If the Government handed over everything to their recent enemies they would shake the faith of the colonies and deal the most serious blo.v the Empire had sustained for a hundred and fifty years.
AN APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT.
Received July 29, 4.30 p.m. CAPETOWN, July 28. A meeting of Moderates at Bloemfontein have decided to appeal to the Government to avoid placing the State under the Africander Bond and Het Volk.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8197, 30 July 1906, Page 5
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