FEDERAL POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2422, 13 August 1914, Page 4

FEDERAL POLITICS.

IMPORTANCE OF PARTI-

BT ELEOTBIO TELEGBAPB CCPYBIGBX. PES PRESS ABSOOIATION.

\r + +1, Melbourne, August 7. ■Not the slightest interest is evinced in the Federal elections, and Victoria would be happier if they were postponed.

The Government is in the hands of three men—the Prime Minister, Minister tor Defence, and the AttorneyGeneral—who are working in adjoining rooms, and spend most of each day m conference. They have not even summoned their colleagues. The lreasurer is in West Australia, and Mr Wynn remains in Adelaide This is everywhere regarded a s unfortunate.

Ail , Cook has decided against resuscitation of the old Parliament by an Imperial Act. An easy wav of resuscitation would be the withdrawal or all opposition to sitting members; but this would take as long as the ordinary election. Mr Cook is set upon having the elections. He feels that his party's position in the country has been greatly strengthened by the war, but he cannot surely overlook the fact that Australia is' in no mood or condition to face a serious political election.