The Transvaal is preparing for the coming elections, which will
take place at the close of the present year or the beginning of the next. On Tuesday the allotment of new electoral dis- tricts was published. Four country districts, including Barber- ton, get one Member each ; nine get two each ; Potchefstroom Town is given one, and the district three ; Pretoria Urban has six, and the district three ; while the Rand has thirty-four. The last district will be divided into five divisions, and the number of Members based on the number of voters. Mean- while, it is announced that a new National Party has been formed out of the old Responsible Government Association and the local Pretoria Party. The division of parties is now as follows : Het Volk, Progressive, Nationalist, and Labour. The last three are nominally British parties, but it is un- likely that they will amalgamate, and Het Volk will have a majority over any single one. In these circumstances the omens seem to point to that undesirable form of government, a Coalition.
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