POLITICAL SITUATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 May 1912, Page 4

POLITICAL SITUATION.

A 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 very well-informed i on political matters: "The feeling is. v 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 1 into the lobby by 44 or 45 members. This is assuming that Mr Millar and a number of discontented Liberals wiH vote against the stop-gap Ministry But what then? 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 hap--hazard 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."