The Political Position

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 75, 11 December 1890, Page 2

The Political Position

Says the Times :— Ministers have nob yet met in Cabinet to consider what course they shall take, lt iB very probable, however, that Parliament will be *M called together next month, and that Ministers will at once resign office. The N.Z, Times reports an interview with Sir R. Stout in which in reply to a question as to hia personal intention* he said " My intention i» hot to re-enter political life. 1 might add this : It ha* been said that there are no men in tho Opposition to form a Government. I don't believe anything of that sort. I believe a very good Government can be* formed out of its members." The Napier News forcasts the comingMinistry as follows :— Premier and Col~ onial Treasurer, Ballance ; or Premier,. Ballance, and Colonial Treasurer, Kennedy Macdonald. Minister of Miues r Seddon or Guinness. Minister of Lands, W. C. Smith or John Mackenzie. Minister of Education, W. P. Reeves-. Colonial Secretary, George Fisher, Native M mister, Kelly. Attorney- General, George Hutchison or W. L. Rees. Without portfolio (to represent Labour interest) Pinkerton.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION*. "") Auckland, December 9. The Hon. E. Mitchelson goes South to-morrow to attend a Cabinet meeting' on Friday. He thinks Parliament should be called together as early as possibleHe doubts the abitity of the Opposition to form an acceptable Government, and thinks the eventual outcome to be dissolution. Wellington, This Day. The members of the Goverment will ali be here to-morrow, bnt it is hardly likely, that the result of their deliberations on the position will be known till the Governor's return on Saturday.