First Published in 1968. This is a two volumes-in-one collection of documents and official materials that illustrate the process of the South African consolidation. The selection is based on the author's interest in bringing to light documents that have a thread of connection and demonstrate an episode of the British Empire that has not been fully presented in England. The materials date from 1858 to 1905.
Table of Contents:
Introduction.; Chapter 1 Extracts from Correspondence between Sir George Grey and the Colonial Office Respecting the Confederation of South Africa.; Chapter 2 Resolution of the Cape House of Assembly Concerning Responsible Government and a Federative Union, 9 June, 1871.; Chapter 3 The Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sir H. Barkly in Reply to a Petition for Separation1The question of Federative Union in the Colony was completely overshadowed by the agitation in the Eastern Province for Separation. Forwarded from Cape Colony, 14 February, 1873.; Chapter 4 Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner Concerning a Proposal for a Conference of Delegates from the Colonies and States of South Africa, 4 May, 1875.; Chapter 5 Minute of the Government of Cape Colony and Resolution of Legislative Council on the Conference Proposed by the Earl of Carnarvon, 7 June, 1875.; Chapter 6 Replies of the Governments of Certain of the South African Colonies and States to the Invitation of the Earl of Carnarvon to a Conference.; Chapter 7 Mr. James Anthony Froude to the Earl of Carnarvon Furnishing a Report of the Late Events at the Cape of Good Hope,1It is impossible to convey an adequate impression of this extraordinary document by merely a few brief extracts, and space does not admit of more. Those who can get access to the Blue Book, which has long been out of print, will find the document an admirable revelation of the attitude of a Victorian intellectual towards the Colonies and “Colonials.” This should be contrasted with the wisdom and understanding of the trained official, Sir Henry Barkly. London, 10 January, 1876.; Chapter 8 The Earl of Carnarvon to Governor Sir Henry Barkly Approving of the Holding of a Special Session of Parliament to Consider the Proposal of a Conference on Confederation, 22 October, 1875.; Chapter 9 Proceedings of the Cape House of Assembly on the Proposal for a Conference, 23 November, 1875.; Chapter 10 The Earl of Carnarvon to Governor Sir Henry Barkly, 24 January, 1876.; Chapter 11 Replies of Certain of the Governments of the South African Colonies and States to the Invitation of the Earl of Carnarvon to a Conference in England.; Chapter 12 Extracts from Speech of the Earl of Carnarvon to the Conference Concerning South African Affairs,1The Conference met at the Colonial Office with the Earl of Carnarvon as President and Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley in the Vice-Chair. The Orange Free State was represented by President Brand, Natal by Sir Theophilus Shepstone, Messrs. Akerman and Robinson also being present, and Griqua-Land West was represented in the absence of any special delegate by Mr. J. A. Froude, as personally acquainted with the Province and its requirements. Mr. J. C. Molteno formally declined to attend the Conference as a course opposed to the spirit and intention of his instructions. 3 August, 1876.; Chapter 13 Address of the South African Confederation Deputation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 26 October, 1876.; Chapter 14 Extracts from Speech of Earl of Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in the House of Lords on the Second Reading of the South African Confederation Bill, 23 April, 1877.; Chapter 15 Right Hon. Earl of Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sir Bartle Frere, High Commissioner in South Africa, Conveying the South Africa Act, 16 August, 1877.; Chapter 16 South Africa Act (40 and 41 Vict., Cap. 47), 13 August, 1877.; Chapter 17 Resolution Adopted by the Legislative Council of Natal Concerning the Proposed Conference of Delegates of the Colonies and States of South Africa, 3 September, 1878.; Chapter 18 Right Hon. Sir M. Hicks-Beach, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sir Bartle Frere, High Commissioner in South Africa, Concerning the Introduction into the Cape Legislature of a Measure for Confederation, 12 June, 1879.; Chapter 19 Minute of the Ministers of Cape Colony Concerning the Introduction of a Measure for Confederation, 10 July, 1879.; Chapter 20 Extracts from Speech of Mr. J. Gordon Sprigg, Colonial Secretary of Cape Colony, in the Cape House of Assembly, 22 June, 1880.; Chapter 21 Right Hon. Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies to Sir Hercules Robinson, High Commissioner for South Africa, 30 December, 1880.; Chapter 22 Proposed Programme for the Projected Afrikander Bond,, 1881].; Chapter 23 Extracts from Speech of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, M.L.A., in Cape House of Assembly on the Basutoland Disannexation Bill, 18 July, 1883.; Chapter 24 Extracts from Speech of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, M.L.A., in Cape House of Assembly in Debate Concerning the Control of Basutoland and Stellaland, 16 August, 1883.; Chapter 25 Order in Council Providing for the Government of Basutoland.; Chapter 26 Programme of the Principles of the Afrikander National Part y, 1884.; Chapter 27 Resolutions of a Native Meeting Concerning South African Policy, 22 April, 1885.; Chapter 28 Extracts from Speech of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, M.L.A., in Cape House of Assembly on Customs and Railway Union, 20 May, 1886.; Chapter 29 (a) Memorandum of the Rev. John Mackenzie Concerning the Separation of the Offices of High Commissioner and Governor of Cape Colony.; Chapter 30 Extracts from Report of a Select Committee of the Legislative Council of Natal concerning the Political Constitution of the Colony, 28 October, 1888.; Chapter 31 Extracts from Speech of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony, Concerning the Union of South Africa, Kimberley, 6 September, 1890.; Chapter 32 Extracts from Speech of Mr. Cecil Rhodes at the Annual Congress of the Afrikander Bond, Kimberley, 80 March, 1891.; Chapter 33 Order in Council Providing for the Government of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 9 May, 1891.; Chapter 34 Extracts from Speech of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, Premier of Cape Colony, in Cape House of Assembly in Moving the Second Reading of the Glen Grey Act, 30 July, 1894.; Chapter 35 The Glen Grey Act, 31 August, 1894.; Chapter 36 Act Providing for the Annexation of British Bechuanaland to Cape Colony, 1895.; Chapter 37 Extract from Proceedings of Cape assembly concerning the Amendment of Articles of Customs Convention, 3 May, 1897.; Chapter 38 Extracts from Speech of Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes Concerning the Policy of the Progressive Part y, Cape Town, 12 March, 1898.; Chapter 39 Order in Council Providing for the Government of Southern Rhodesia, 20 October, 1898.; Chapter 40 Extracts from Speech of the Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes concerning the Work of Imperial Expansion and South African Union, Cape Town, 18 July, 1899.; Chapter 41 Order in Council Providing for the Government of Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia, 28 November, 1899.; Chapter 42 Commission Appointing Sir Alfred Milner to be High Commissioner for South Africa, 6 October, 1900.; Chapter 43 Modus Vivendi Arranged between the High Commissioner for South Africa and the Governor-General of Mozambique, 18 December, 1901.; Chapter 44 Instruments Providing for the Government of the Orange River Colony.; Chapter 45 The Treaty of Peace Concluded at Vereeniging, 31 May, 1902.; Chapter 46 Letters Patent, etc., Providing for the Government of the Transvaal, 23 September, 1902.; Chapter 47 Proceedings of the South African Customs Union Conference at Bloemfontein, March, 1903.; Chapter 48 Order in Council for the Establishment of an Inter-Colonial Council in South Africa.; Chapter 49 Order in Council Providing for the Government of Swaziland, 25 June, 1903.; Chapter 50 Extracts from Speech of Right Hon. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, M.P., concerning the Policy of the Liberal Part y, Dundee, 18 November, 1904.; Chapter 51 Letter to the Rand Daily Mail Announcing the Formation of the Transvaal Progressive Association, 22 November, 1904.; Chapter 52 Letter to the Johannesburg Star announcing the Formation of the Transvaal Responsible Government Association, 25 November, 1904.; Chapter 53 Proceedings of Deputation of the Transvaal Progressive Association to Viscount Milner, 10 January, 1905.; Chapter 54 Extracts from Speech of Mr. E. P. Solomon, President, at the Inaugural Dinner of the Transvaal Responsible Government Association, Johannesburg, 14 January 1905.; Chapter 55 Extracts from Speech of Mr. J. W. Leonard at a Meeting of the Transvaal Progressive Association, Johannesburg, 19 January, 1905.; Chapter 56 Extracts from Report of the Inaugural Meeting of the Boer Organisation of the People (Het Volk), 28 January, 1905.; Chapter 57 Extracts from Reports of Meetings held for the Establishment of Branches of Het Volk, February, 1905.; Chapter 58 Commission appointing the Bight Hon. the Earl of Selborne to be High Commissioner for South Africa, 15 March, 1905.; Chapter 59 Eight Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies to Sir Arthur Lawley, Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal Transmitting Letters Patent, 31 March, 1905.; Chapter 60 Extract from Letters Patent1These Letters Patent and the accessory Order in Council of 27 March, 1905, were revoked before they came into operation. providing for the Constitution of an Elected Legislative Assembly in the Transvaal, 31 March, 1905.; Chapter 61 Extract from the King’s Speech in Parliament, 19 February, 1906.; Chapter 62 Customs Union Convention agreed to at the Conference held at Pietermaritzburg, March, 1906.; Chapter 63 Ruling in Transvaal Legislative Council Concerning Amendment of Customs Convention, 28 June, 1906.; Chapter 64 The Eight Hon. Earl of Elgin, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the Earl of Selborne, Governor of the Transvaal, informing him of the approaching Grant Of Responsible Government, 31 July, 1906.; Chapter 65 The Earl of Elgin to the Earl of Selborne, Governor of the Transvaal, Informing him of the Despatch of Letters Patent,; Chapter 66 The Earl of Elgin to the Earl of Selborne, Governor of the Orange River Colony, Informing him of the Approaching Grant of Responsible Government, 17 December, 1906.; Chapter 67 Papers Relating to the Proposed Federation of the South African Colonies. Transmitted by the Earl of Selborne, High Commissioner for South Africa, To the Earl of Elgin, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 7 January, 1907.; Chapter 68 The Earl of Elgin, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the Earl of Selborne, Governor of the Orange River Colony, Informing him of the Despatch of Letters Patent, 7 June, 1907.; Chapter 69 Instruments Providing for the Establishment of Responsible Government in the; Chapter 70 The High Commissioner to the Secretary of State conveying a Statement of the Transvaal Government, 2 July, 1907.; Chapter 71 Resolutions adopted by an Inter-Colonial Conference convened for the Discussion of the Tariff and Railway Rates, Pretoria, 5 May, 1908.; Chapter 72 Extracts from Speech of Governor Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson in Opening the Cape Parliament, 19 June, 1908.; Chapter 73 Extracts from Speech of Mr. J. X. Merriman, Premier of Cape Colony, In the House of Assembly on the Proposal for a National Convention, 22 June, 1908.; Chapter 74 Extracts from Debates in the Legislative Assembly of Natal on the Proposal for a National Convention, June-July, 1908.; Chapter 75 Extracts from Minutes of Proceedings of the South African National Convention Held at Durban, Cape Town and Bloemfontein, 12 October, 1908–11 May, 1909.; Chapter 76 Informal Suggestions by the High Commissioner on the question of the Native Franchise Circulated to Members of the South African National Convention, December, 1908].; Chapter 77 Extracts from Speech of Mr. J. X. Merriman, Premier of Cape Colony, In the House of Assembly, In Introducing the Draft South Africa Act, 31 March, 1909.; Chapter 78 Extracts from Debate in the House of Commons on the Second Reading of the South Africa Bill, 16 August, 1909.;
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Arthur Percival Newton
