AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10736, 29 August 1913, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

United Press Association. —By Elec trio Telegraph Copyright. Melbourne, August 28.

Mr Cook, addressing the InterState Conference of Liberals, said the Government was in office but not in power. It was impossible that Parliament shonld be of long duration but the Government did not intend to allow the Opposition to force it to go to the country before it was prepared to go. Referring to the action of the Labour majority in the Senate taking business out of the hands of the Government in connection with the appointment of a Select Committee, he declared he did not intend to stand that soft of thing long' ' The censure debate is going strong, and there are indications that it will not finish before tomorrow. if then.

Sydney, August 28

Mr Gann anticipates the new taxation will produce three-quarters of a million revenue. The proposals, however, are contingent upon the present Government surviving the elections. They will not he enforced during the life of the present Parliament.

In the Assembly, the Hon. Holman cleared the way for the introduction of the City Railway Bill.