D1.8.39: [Untitled]

D1.8.39: [Untitled]

Newspaper Clippings

Bleek agrees with altering the representation system to address the Easterners' valid concerns that remain far from parliament's mind. Alongside the former, he criticises them for delaying the Annexation Bill's passing. This delay does not detract from the otherwise commendable performance of the House concerning public affairs, particularly its fairness with the Postmaster-General's case. Concerning the Railway Committee's report, he has reservations about certain ambiguity and the guarantee system, arguing that a public-funded railway should be government-built. If Mr Bourne is to be directly involved in its construction, a separate General Inspector of Railways must perform oversight. Railways can circulate the human and non-human resources needed to consolidate (populate) the frontier districts as agricultural centres via immigration.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

24 August 1865

Two cut-out columns of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).

Representation system (requires alteration), Annexation Bill, Postmaster-General, Railway Committee Report, Government Engineer (Frederick Bourne), railway (to be built on a system of small contracts), General Inspector of Railways, Teutonic race (colonies of the)

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek. Published in Het Volksblad on Thursday, August 24th, 1865.

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