N.S. WALES POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15824, 24 July 1913, Page 7

N.S. WALES POLITICS

ME WILLIS'S, ALLEGATIONS. SIR WILLIAM CULLEiN DEFENDED. HEATED SPEECH BY MB WADE. PrtH Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, Joly*23. In the Assembly Mr Wade traversed the statements contained in the document tabled by Mr Willis. He said : " This cowardly man before retiring from the Speakership endeavoured to throw discredit upon a roan who is as high above him as the sun is above the eartfi. Mr Willis's statement is deeply biassed, and based on a falsehood, and also involves a breach of confidence," Mr Wade defended the action of Sir W. Cullen and himself in connection with the events following the choice of Mr Willis as Speaker, and gave a direct denial to the version oontained in the document ae to what transpired at the meetings between Sir W. Onllen, Mr Holman, Mr M'Gowen, and himself.

Mr Holman followed. The Premier said he had not seen any of the statements which appeared in the document, and was not in a position to eay whether all of them were .inaccurate-, but they certainly did not represent any conversations made by liim to a third pereon. Regarding Sir W. Cullen he never saw nor heard anything on the part of the Lieutenantgovernor which was not characterised by the sincereet regard for the rights of the people, and by a .desire to preserve the constitutional rights of Parliament,