POLITICAL POINTS.

Evening Star, Issue 12874, 25 July 1906, Page 1

POLITICAL POINTS.

' [Special, to the Stab.] . . WELLINGTON, July 25., Politically the chief feature of the situation is the absence of Ministers. Mr M'Gowan carries the world on his shoulders, and seems all the better for it. His department is taking time by the forelock, for the Southern Exhibition. It is .getting out a circular offering certain tor the three best essays on Mining in New Zealand; its present conditions, future prospects, and the best means of fostering its ' development/ iho prizes are one gold medal plus 50 guineas, two silver medals, plus 25 guineas, and three bronze medals plus IQ guineas. The essays will have to be in by the Ist of December next. Three judges will be appointed between this and then, whose decision will be final, and the instruction to them will be to tavor the practical side in the matter of for the future develop,c?n.’ political circles, if there are few Mimsters, there is much talk of organisafmd, th at the old body with 1 which- Mr Culver was so long associated are not disappearing but changing. It ia felt that, a partnership in a Labor organisation is impossible to the Liberals rthl V ‘‘ C f IT'l f, or L ’ lbor - Liberal-Labor policy of the caricaThf L rl-L , th «refore 110 ln nger feasible, Ihe Liberals will keep the organisation <- 10 T f bor will Revoke on ately foar >dod in ChristMr h p and - U i. e will together. .Mr Gavin s health continues to disquiet 1S - to float around tnat a prominent official of the Dcpartmert has a good o^LT 8 P “ t * l