NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 131, 18 May 1912, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND POLITICS.

THE AIM OF HIS LIFE

SEPARATING THE SANE FROM THE SILLY.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Auckland, May 17

“Never in my experience,” remark ed Mr. Massey, the Reform leader, to a “Herald” representative , “has there been such a wave of feeling against the Goverment as there is at the present; never has there been such keen interest taken in the Reform party ; never so many good men offering themselves as candidates ; and never so much goodwill expressed towards the Reform party by all sections of the community as at the present, notwithstanding the fact that Ministers think it necessary to continue abusing and misrepresenting me personally. I think those tactics on the part of the Ministryare good signs, and I hope they will persevere.” “What will happen when the session opens ?” Mr. Massey was ask ed.

“The future >is on the lap of the gods,” he replied. “But I believe that every one of the present Ministers to bring me nearer the goal at which I have been aiming for years, and that is to get all the sane, sensible and really progressive men on one side of the House, and to place all the faddists, fanatics and oppor tunists on the other.” ANOTHER FORECAST. The Dunedin “Star” gives for what it is worth the following extract from the letter of a Wellington gentleman who is said to be usually wellinf orme<| on political matters: “The feeling is growing daily that the days of the Mackenzie Cabinet are numbered, and that when Mr. Massey- moves his want-of-confidence motion he will be followed into the lobby by 44 or 45 members. This is assuming that Mr. Millar and a number of discontented Liberals will vote against the stop-gap Ministry. But what then l That Mr. Millar and Mr Massey will be brought together . and that, with a view to preventing a dissolution, which otherwise seems to be the only solution of the present haphazard condition in which neither party can command a working majority, a fusion Ministry will be put in charge of the Treasury benches. If that happens, Otago will come into her own kingdom again.” ..