NEW SOUTH WALES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10217, 11 December 1893, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES.

THE POLITICAL CRISIS. [Special to Pssss Association.! SYDNEY, Dec.' 9. Mr Barton thinks that it would be wiser if Sir G. E. Dibbs accepted the resignations of Mr 0 3 Connor and himself and then tendered the resignation of tha Ministry to the Governor who must be assumed to know exactly the course which should be adopted in the interests of the country. Having resigned he knew nothing of the intentions of the Government until the announcement was made in the House While the effect was dramatic it was, he considered, an error of judgment, and it would have been better if the Speaker had been informed of the prorogation. Mr Reid characterised the action as a melancholy farce. The unbroken practice has always been to post the proclamation proroguing Parliament on the outer door of tho Assembly. Sir H. Parkes said that the action was the moat intensely stupid thing he could have dreamed of men doing, and to a large extent was an act of political suicide. Some of the supporters of the Ministry approve of the course adopted, while others consider that the Ministry should reconstruct, and that the important measures before tho House should be completed. The Labour party is considerably annoyed that so much useful legislation has been abandoned, but failed to see how afcy other vote could have been taken. The Herald, states that the Ministry, in advising tha prorogation, refused to recognise the authority of and the opinion expressed by the House, and that it is hard to find in constitutional history a parallel for the present proceedings. The Daily Telegraph states that the effect ia to completely nullify responsible government, and to give sis weeks 3 uncontrolled power to a Ministry under pain of censure.