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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2128, 23 October 1896, Page 3

Sir J. Gordon Sprigs-, the Capo Premier, addressing a mo .--tin;.;- of hi-' constituents at East London last month,said that Capo Colony had nothing to dn with I the Jameson raid, which was a question solely fnr tho Imperial Government and too Transvaal. The Cape committer had found that Mr Rhodes did thine:? inconsistent with his position as Prime Minister. If that v.-as the case then the punishment inflicted on Mr Rhodes was retirement from office. Mr Rhodes hvl taken that punishment, and the colony had nothing whatever to say t r > him on that matter. In conclusion, the Premier said that the British constitution would last his time, and ages after, in South Africa. The speech was received with prolonged, cheers, but a vote of censure was afterwards declared to have been carried.. Much feeling had beer, aroused on the frontier because the Minjstrv wan supposed'to have truckled to the vaal. The Transvaal- Volksraad. has passed a Bill prohibiting the sale of liquor to the natives. This cannot fail to have a beneficial effect on the mining industry.