AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13474, 20 May 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

.FEDERAL PREMIER AS A PROPHET. United Press Association-- By Electric . Telegraph.-A?<^rigty;f : - V, (Received May 20, 10.23 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 20. Mr McGawen discredits the cabled, repoM Mr^Deakhr's pro? phecy as to reverses to be sustained by the. Labour Party in New South Wales and Queensland. He says: — '/There is, a coldbloodedness about "the' thing foreign ,to all we know of Mr Deakin politically and pejtsonallj&T >- • .*«;- . j MELBOURN^ May SO. Mr Deakin 's prediction" was received with astonishment in Labour ranks. JVfr Prendergast declared «6hat it suggested to his mind that Mr Deakihhad found himself in th§ position of Baron Munehausen, who, when losing the conndence of the people of Africa, resorted to the expedient W importing shiploads of fudge.' Mr Deakin was apparently following the Baron's example.