AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 68, 20 November 1913, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS.. I

'By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] /; - [United Press Association.] -

J (Received 8 ; 65/;».m.) !* j Sydney, November 20. . ~'l'ha jelectioit campaign *is in full giving. ! Interest is .sxipplftnoented by a -long-driiwn press battle 'between Mr Griffith .and Mr Wade over Mr Wade's charges concerning Mr Griffith's administration of the Works Department. This is punctuated by numerous mutual challenges to thrash the matter out in the courts. Both men, however, are., apparently shy of going Che length ■of j a legal 'ketitr'i. " ' .-.'!<• ; . J (>■' INTHE SENATE. 1 ' (Received 8.55 a.m.) ' Melbourne, November 20i>'' The Senate practically went >i on strike' after transacting preliminary business. Tho Opposition, by 25 votes to 4, forced an adjournment till to-day, as a protest against' the Government adjourning the- Senate a fortnight ago and then proceeding to business itself when a' nd-confidence motion was hanging over the Government. The Leader of the Opposition, in moving the resolution, declared that as the Government was prepared to conduct business with a want-of-confi-deneo still pending, it was time the Seriate showed the people whether the true friends of Constitutional Government was the Opposition or the Govern ment. A representative characterised the motion as a deliberate attempt to frustrate busines,s and bring it to a standstill.

Ministerialist Senators subsequently claimed that the Opposition antics had made a double dissolution necessary. ft was generally agreed that a crisis is approaching, The Government's action in meeting the latest phase of political, deadlock is anticipated with keen interest.