SOUTH AFRICA.
THE UNION BILL,
READ A THIRD TIME.
•Jnited Press Assooiatiou-By Electtio Telegraph Copyiglu. Received August 20, 10.45 p m. LONDON, August 20. The South African Bill passed
through Committee. Mr A. J. Balfour supported Mr H. H. Asquith's resistance to the Radical and Labourite amendments concerning the colour bar. The Bill was liter read a third time. Mr Asquith, in commenting on Parliament's yielding to the considered judgment of South Africa hoped that the views strongly expressed in the House of Commons practically without any dissent would induce the Union Parliament sooner or later—sooner rather than later—to spontaneously relax what the majority of the members of the House of Commons regarded as unnecessary restrictions up<m the electoral rights and eligibility of our native fellow subjects in !South Africa. He added that the House of Commons wished the present magnificent experiment all possible success. The Hon. W. H. Long, on behalf of the Opposition, endorsed in the strongest and most cordial way Mr Asquith's statesmanlike speech, representing the views of the whole of the members of the House of Commons. ______
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9574, 21 August 1909, Page 5
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