LATE POLITICAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7820, 27 July 1896, Page 3

LATE POLITICAL.

j MR MONTGOMERY'S "LITTLE

AFFAIR."

WILL HE DEMAND A RULING

FROM THE SPEAKER?

(FEOM OUP, SPECIAL P-.EPQP.tER ) ! '-Jz't TELMGEAPH.] t WklmnotO . This day. 5 Busineea starts this wook with forty-eigh | questions!, fifty Siils in various stages, am I bixteen notioos of motion. t Tho imbroglio between A?r Montgomery ) ai:d tho Pr mier is casing aotaa mi/ore.it a to who'-'.t-!- iiu'U&fv ii m*u " m.o . scllkl at-d ungenerous" ia " uupa.riiaraontarj language." Opinions differ, but Mr Mont. go'thery says lie will bring the matter bsfon iho Hoiteo to-morrow. Ho has alread] written to the newspapers stating that hi would do so. Mr Montgomery has 5-ecn * pomewhut osn-.lid follower o.* 2.r Seddoi (bus ho has besr. a follower), aad his losi would daEaago tho Heddon party. He is on< of the very few on that sido of tho House who manifest aay degree of oulture, _ Hi is a rising young politician. The remaining question is whether . ha*wiil bring the Premier to book, o* will his oourage, like that o- aotae of his colleaguea, oozu through 'the tips of his fiugerH ? Ihe number of defections from the fleddoni&a rank and file is increasing— Messrs ;' arnshaw, J GL Smi)- ~ Collins. Or. W. Knssell, >'-irani.T^ om p,j ol _ (Mr a rS(Je*i)i j Orowthor, faun(3^" rSj JfasUo, .tSoStgomery, 'Sitiok. Th .;. aro one or two others kno .s to \r a a« tie road to ( political revolt. It h j'said, however, that few of tho above named i would vote strath*: against the Qovem- ! ment on <*, -s-Gonfidencc motion, but they urc on a rail, and very little would make them fall to the opposite side. A political cataolysm is possible, but rt Will not be brought about by tho Opposition, whioh it for tbe pi- .etit content with tbe political aapTct b'i affairs. There is absolutely no other news to-day. The Premier's lust committee fight has resulted in the status quo ante. Mr Montgomery's " little affair" with the Premier may oause some liveliness to-morrow afternoon. He seems terribly in earnests Whether ho will proceed to the point of demanding a ruling fie . the Speaker: is the only question. The collapsed debate on tbe Financial Statement *ill be resusciated to-morrow evening. Tho Premier was loth to give way in thiß matter.but his patty, in whom "tho bitter part of valour now resides," insistecl that tho party should not again be chargeable with '' burking the cry for information" as to the state of the country. The Commissioners start work to-day.