NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE South South African elections were held on Thursday. There was much excitement throughout all the provinces, but no disorder. The chief fact, so far as the results are known, is the defeat of General Botha by Sir Percy Fitz- patrick in the Eastern Division of Pretoria. Sir Percy Fitz- *patrick obtained 1,231 votes against General Botha's 1,136. "A correspondent of the Times says that probably the final figures will be :—Nationalists, 64; Unionists, 40; Natal Independents, 12; Labour, 4; Independent, 1. At George- town Sir George Farrar defeated Mr. Hull, the Treasurer of the Union. At Krugersdorp Mr. Abe Bailey was defeated. General Botha will of course soon find another constituency. Speaking after his defeat, he said that he did not wish his failure to accentuate race feeling. "I will go to the utmost limit," he said, "to stamp out racialism."
