MR WARD'S RFSIGNATION CERTAIN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXX, Issue 138, 12 June 1896, Page 2

MR WARD'S RFSIGNATION CERTAIN.

PBESSURE BY MINISTERIAL MEMBERS. MRSEDDON PROBABLY ABANDONS HIS COLLEAGUE. A VACANCY~FOR O AMARU. THE COLONIAL~BANK AFFAIR. (From our Special Correspondent.) Wellington. This Day. That the Treasurer has decided to relinquish office as soon as the judgment in the J. 6. Ward Farmers' Association ease (which is to bo given in Dunedin to-morrow) 1b delivered may, I think, be taken for granted. A meeting of Governmont supporttera is to be convened for Monday, &t which the Premier will probably announco his colleague's intentions. This step will be takon to prevent the desertion of some half-a-dozen members' of the Ministerial party, who had intimated to Mr Seddon that they could not continue to support an Administration in which Mr Ward held office. The member for Oamaiu (Mr Thomas Duncan), will also, it is anticipated, resign his seat in the House and ask a renewal of the confidence of his constituents. The driving of the Troasurer from offloe, however, will not satisfy a numbir of the shareholders of the Colonial Bank, who are determined to probe the manngeroont of that institution to the bottom. With that end in view they are consulting Mr Jolliooe as to legal notion against the Oolonial Bank Directory in connection with the disclosures recently made. Then there are the appointments to the Bank of New Zealand made during tho recess which aro exercising the minds of members of the Houao, and which aro eortain to be bitterly attacked by the Opposition.