The Review of Reviews. 



October 1, 1906. 



shibboleths of democracy are scouted. Nothing will 

 satisfy these hard-riders but ascendency naked and 

 unashamed. It is easy to understand the consterna- 

 tion of the Jingoes, who are just now beginning to 

 discover how suicidal was the South African war 

 from the Imperial point of view. But it is too late. 

 On their own showing the Dutch will have a certain 

 majoritv in the Free State, and even under Mr. 

 Lyttelton's Constitution they were within tivo votes 

 of a tie in the Transvaal, if all the British voted 

 together. But nothing is more certain than that all 



The new Constitution for the 



New Transvaal Transvaal contains only one sur- 



Constitution. pnse— the creation of a second 



Chamber, consisting of fifteen nomi- 

 nated members. As their nomination is in the hands 

 of the present Government — which has its own 

 troubles with its second Chamber — we may rely upon 

 a fair selection of good men who will work in har- 

 monv with the majority in the elected Chamber, 

 The Legislative Chamber is to consist of 69 mem- 

 bers — 34 for the Rand, including Krugersdorp, 6 

 for Pretoria, and 29 for the rest of the country. 

 They are to be paid ;^2oo .1 year, and elected for 



Photograph bi/J 



The Native Troubles In Natai 



IB. W. .irmstTong. 



This photograph shows a group of ofiBcers with the captured chief Sigananda (who has since died at the age of 104) 



at N'kandhla, the scene of his surrender to Colonel Royston. 



the British will not vote together. The last Boer 

 resident in Johannesburg whom I met in London 

 assured me that no matter how they gerrymander the 

 constituencies, the anti-ascendency party and the 

 Het Volk are certain to romp in at the coming 

 elections. When General Botha is Prime Minister 

 in the Transvaal and President Ste)n in the Orange 

 Free State, the true lunacy of Lord Milner's war 

 will be known and read of all men. 



five years by adult males who have resided six 

 months in the country. Ministers calculate that the 

 country districts will elect a solid block of Boers, 

 while the Rand will elect British members, and the 

 Pretoria vote is uncertain. The surprise will be the 

 Rand vote. The party of ascendency will be rudely 

 awakened when the |)ol!s are declared. The Jingoes 

 are howling over this " new >Lijuba." conveniently 

 ignoring the fact that their own man. Lord Sellorne, 

 has given the new Constitution his approval. The 



