AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 133, 28 July 1911, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

NEW SOUTH WALES CRISIS. GOVERNMENT RESIGN. Sydney, July 2. It is reported that Messrs. JJrinor and Levien, two Independents, have j decided to vote against Mr Holmans adjournment motion to-night. This jeopardises the Government's position. The Government has resigned. STATEMENT BY MR HOLMAN. Sydney, July ,27. , The Council passed Supply at 5.30 to-night. Shortly afterwards Mr. Holman entered the Assembly and announced: “In view ot the positiou-'that has arisen in the House, 1 and' my col r leagues determined to tender- theLife tit.-Governor certain advice, which His Excellency could not see his way to accept. I have therefore placed t|ia resignation of the Ministry, in iris hands.” >. .• ■. . Mr. Holman added that the Lieut.Governor had asked him to communicate at once with Mr. McGowan, but* he had not yet had an opportunity of doing so. He would cable him tonight. He moved that the House adjourn and await Mr. McGowen’s reply-.

Mr. Wade objected to the adjournment on the ground that the only person constitutionally to resign was Mr McGowen, and said that the proceedings were premature. The House should also pass the Supply Bill in its final stages. RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. Sydney, July 27. Mr. Wade held that Mr. McGowen had a right to say whether ire would resign or not. Tne House ought to await his opinion. Alter a desultory debate Mr, Holman stated that tiie Lieutenant-Gov-ernor. had made it quite clear that lie accepted the resignations on certain conditions, which lie did not think he ought to make public, but which were nothing to do either with Mr. McGrdweh or the constitutional position. The , House would meet on Tuesday, but he and his colleagues would have no business to place before it. A two months’ Supply Bill was passed and the Hdhse r adjdhrned'till Tuesday. , Mr., .McGowen left England a few days ago' en route to Canada. A cable from him is expected to-morrow. It is believed the outcome will be that Mr.: Wade Will be sent for to form a Government. TO-DAY’S,MESSAGES. (Received 28, 10 a.m.) Sydney, July 28. The- outgoing Ministry continue the administration of the departments until the new Cabinet is formed. Late last night the Speaker, Mr. Cann, resigned his position. This puts the situation ih a tangle which it is hard to unravel, except by dissolution. Tbe House will meet on Tuesday without a Speaker, with forty-four members ou each side—Liberals and Independents against the Labourites. The nonLabour Party will accept the Speakership. Mr. Holman states that tbe resignation of the Government was not contemplated until Messrs; Horne and Dunn caused the loss of a working majority on which they had relied since taking office. They saw they could not carry the adjournment motion, and advised the Lieutenant-Governor to prorogue the House until the byelection. He would not accept this, and the onlv course left was to resign.

Mr. Griffiths, interviewed, attacked the Lieutenant-Governor, asserting partiality and State disfranchisement of the people by not acting on the advice of the Government, which on the last division in the House showed a majority of five.