AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10738, 1 September 1913, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright. Received September 1, 1 p.m. Sydney, Setember 1. Mr Cook, in an interview, said: “We shall go to the country when ready and not a moment before. We should like, if possible, to make some changes in the electoral law, and shall give Mr Fisher an opportunity of turning down these proposals or nassing theca as he chooses. Mr Chinn, who was employed as engineer on the trans-Continental railway, has been discharged. His friends in the Senate have rushed to liis rescue. They set the business of the country aside while they appointed a partisan committee of inquiry. The ohairman has prejudiced the case by declaring that before the inquiry opens that no more scandalous piece of persecution has ever taken place. Mr Cook added that the position cannot in the very nature of things be a lasting one.