Word: transvaal
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...countries whose currencies are not on a gold basis, and not at par with dollars, a premium is consequently placed upon gold production. This is largely the reason for the record gold production of the African Transvaal field. In July last, the Rand produced 829,437 ounces of gold, the highest output for a single month on record...
Gold already in England is, by British law, prohibited from being exported. Thus it is only the new Transvaal gold that ultimately comes to Manhattan. On the other hand, the U. S. is regularly taking so much of the Rand gold output, is gradually adding to her already enormous supply of the yellow metal and, as long as the gold standard is adhered to here, must continue...
...coalition of the Nationalists and Laborites, who will now have a majority of more than 20 in the new Parliament, occasioned little surprise. The personal defeat of the Premier at Pretoria West was also not unexpected. He is, however, to stand for reelection at Standerton in the Transvaal, that seat having been offered by a Colonel G. M. Claassen who is to resign...
...followers go in supporting him was not known. It is certain, however, that secession will not be put forward by a Hertzog Government, because the terms of the Nationalist- Labor compact expressly forbid any attempt to test the question of a secession of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal from the Commonwealth...
Went the Earl of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary and Governor General of South Africa with his wife, Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria's youngest son, the Duke of Albany, to the Transvaal for some hunting...