THE RIVAL LEADERS.
The open hostility between the Premier and Sir R. Stout has been the most significant feature of the present session up to this point, and the breach seems to widen every day. Upon every question upon which these two leaders have aa yet spoken they have crossed swords, and some very 6mart passages of arms have taken place between them. Sir Robert adversely criticised the Premier's action in connection with the Tuapeka and Waitemata election writs last week, and to-day he disagreed with some display of Bbarpness with Mr Seddon's method of introducing his Hawkers and Ptdlars Bill. The rupture was even more pronounced during the discussion of the appointment of the Sergeant-al-Arm?, so that when the critical question of the amendment ot the liquor law comes before the House some interesting developments may be expected. There is anme significance in the number of nominally Government supporters who ignored tbe urgent appeal on bebalf of Sir Maurice O'Rorke and voted for Major Steward, for it shows tbat some of the party are liable to break away even at a critical juncture.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 19
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184THE RIVAL LEADERS. Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 19
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