MR DEAKIN INTERVIEWED.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12770, 16 April 1910, Page 3

MR DEAKIN INTERVIEWED.

PUBLIC LIFE NOT WORTH LIV- . ING. GOVERNMENT'S RESIGNATION PROBABLE, Melbourne, April 15. Mr Deakin, Federal Premier, interviewed on the results of the election,' said that the rejection of old cherished comrados was hard to bear. Indeed, in such circumstances public life .ceased to lie worth 'living. From many personal points of view ho had .never been sanguine of the result of the election owing to the lack of patriotic inteicst and trustworthy ■ information upon- the '-great issues involved, The lesson tnught was that henceforward Liberals could not rely on obtaining a full poll upon mere extemporary pre■parntians just prior toa contest. The education .of the indifferent and the uuinformed would have to be undertaken in advance and systematically pursued. Probably a Cabinet meeting will be held early next week/when the situation will be reviewed in the light of fma] returns. The impressibnis that Mr Doakin will resign and advise that Mr Fisher bp sent for/ The Liberal o'utlopk in. Victoria ,lms considerably improved. Mr Deakin (Premier), and Sir John ' Quick (Post master-General) are considered to-be safe; and Messrs Harper, Carty Sal,moii and Irvine are likely to. hold their own.