The Political Situation
Ministers, it is understood, do 1 not agree that constitutional practice demands that they should resign without calling Parliament together. It ia intended to sum uion Parliament about tbe^Jh.oT.lSthoi,. January. Yesterday afternoon the J Cabinet de Voted about an hoar and a half to discussion and consideration of the position, and the course -Ministers should take. The members of the Government present were the Premier, Sir Frederick Whitaker, Mr Stevens, Mr Mitchelson, MiFergus, Mr Richardson and Captain Russell. The official statement of the result is that nothing is yet decided, that the Cabinet will meet again to-day, and that until Monday there will be no actual decisiou as to the policy of the Government. The Governor will return to Wellington to-night, and will be waited upon by his Ministers on Monday. The Ministerial party, in any case, are very confident. They claim to be in a minority of only two or three, and consider it quite possible that they will be in a majority when things settle a little bit and the doubtfuls are allocated either on one side or the other. As to the Speakership, nothing can be decided or arranged just yet. M r Rolleston is the favourite, so far, but it is quite possible that the Opposition will put up Major Steward.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 76, 13 December 1890, Page 2
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218The Political Situation Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 76, 13 December 1890, Page 2
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