POLITICAL CRISIS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7865, 29 July 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL CRISIS

IN NEW SOUTH WALES AN AWKWARD POSITION. RESIGN ATI ON OF TilF, SPEAKER. Sx Telegraph—Proas Association—Copyright. SYDNEY. July 23. The outgoing Ministry will continue tho administration of tho departments until a now Cabinet is formed. Late yesternight tho Speaker of tiro Assembly (Mr Cann) resigned bis position. This parts tlio situation in a tangle hard to unravel except by dissolution. '('ho House will moot on ITiceday without a Sp«ikor. Tboro are forty-fotrr members on each side—Uborails and Independents against Labourites. Tho non-Labour party will accept tho Speakership. Mr Holman, tho Acting-Premier, ftates Gnat tho resignation of tho Government was not contemplated until tho resignation of Messrs Horne and Ounn caused tho loss of tho working majority on which they had rdied pneo taking office. Ho saw ho could not carry tho adjournment motion, and advised tho Lieutenant-Governor (Hon. W. P. Cullen) to prorogue tho House until the by-elections. This advice was not accepted, and tho only ■course left was to resign. Mr A. H. Griffith, Minister for Works, in an interview, attacked tiro Lion ton a n-fc-C! ovemor, assorting that. ho chowed partiality. Ho stated that his Excellency had disfranchised tlic people by not acting on the advice of tho Government, which on tho hist division of tho House mas drown to have i majority of five. CAUCUS OF LABOUR PARTY. (Received July 29, 0.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 28. There s woro no important developments in tho political situation today. The cable message from Mr McGowcn fa 6t£E awaited. The Labour party’s caucus, at, a lengthy mooting, discussed the situation. It ia understood that tho caucus derided in view of the ly-ekxstions that Bn addition should be made to the Conversion Act Repeal Bill, providing for safeguarding all the ecostmg rights t>f conversion. It is reported that Mr NeHaon, Secrotary for Hands, opposed this decision.