FEDERAL POLITICS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 119, 5 February 1923, Page 7

FEDERAL POLITICS

4 MR. HUGHES’S RESIGNATION Sydney, February 3. The newspapers, in loading articlss eulogising the past services, of Mr. Hughes to Australia, and in paying tribute to his successful face of adversity, agree that ho did the right thing in tendering his resi on£>Mr. Bruce has three days in which to form a Ministry. It is uncertain whether a. Nationalist or a composite Cabinet will be formed.—Press Assn. (Rec. February 4, 5.0 p.m.) New York, February 3. The ‘‘New York Herald,” commenting on Air. Hughes’s resignation, declares :-“The fate that attended Mr Lloyd George has overtaken all. Hughes.’ People have grown weary of his forceful, aggressive personality, and are disposed to question his almpst dictatorial proceedings,, to which a lona term of office with but slender majorities and the prestige in Europe during the war, inclined IPnl »—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

LABOUR LEADER COMPLAINS.

(Rec February 5. 0.55 a.m.) v Sydney, February 4. Senator Gardiner, Deputy Leader ot the Federal Labour Party, m an in-, terview strongly condemned tho ac tion of the Governor-General in entrusting Mr. Bruce, "horn he desente ed as '“a. representative of the oiscred ted remnant of the Isa^ onah I s Partv,” to form a Government. 1 doina so, and in not sending for the l eader of the Opposition, he had departed from the custom ot a century. —Press Assn.