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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 143, 23 July 1914, Page 6

The Liberal Party in the New South Wales Legislature is making matters particularly warm for the Labour Government. A snap division in the Assembly in the early hours of the morning saw Mr Holinan on the verge of disaster, from which he was rescued by the casting vote of the Speaker—and Mi- Meagher, the ambitious, the truculent, occujnes that high oilice. During the same debate, Mr Holman was asked to meet the Opposition's demands for a searching enquiry into comments made by the Leader of the House himself regarding a member or members of the Totalisafcor Commission. The statement referred to, which was made some months ago, implied in particularly emphatic language that a member of the commission bad used (or abused; his position to influence votes. It is fortunate for Mr Holm an that he .has the political conscience strongly developed, otherwise the demand for the enquiry would prove an embarrassment to him and his colleagues. The statement objected to was made at a time when the relations between Mr Holinan and that arch-plotter, Mr Meagher, were strained almost to breaking point over the tactics of the masterful Mr Meagher, in conjunction with the Labour League during the temporay absence of. the Ficmier in another State; Moved to anger at the intriguing, the Premier oi: his return vented his displeasure by insinuating that a certain member of ti.(- Totalisator Commission had taken advantage of his position on that body to pull strings—Mr Holm'an's phrasing was much'stronger than that. The dark ai,d damaging hints may have been directed at more than Mr Meaglier, but they certainly touched that gentleman, who .immediately demanded that the Premier should make a definite charge. The pretender's demand was echoed by his many supporters, but Mr Holman, having loosed his dart, retired in the shell of silence, and refused to be uiawn again. Creatly to the sorrow of the Opposition there was no washing of -dirty Labour linen. In public Mr Holir.an and the Speaker are now quite reconciled, as the Premier has been constrained to humble himself. Hence the anxiety bf the Liberals to re-open the old wound, to revive the old antagonism