A Significant Hint.
When the Premier visited Reefton he was entertained nt a banquet and made a speech. Mr Menteath, the member for the district, also spoke on the occasion, and asserted that the Premier had made an attack upon him. He (Mr Menteath) had certainly not come prepared to meet anything like a direct attack on himself. He hinted, however, at the possibility of a dissolution at no distant date, and said the people would do well to be on their guard. He was compelled to believe that the Premier’s address was designed to undermine his (MrMenteath’s) influence with his constituents, and this he resented as being inappropriate to such an occasion. The Premier disclaimed any such intention, and treated lightly the suggestion as to the possibility of a dissolution. The present Ministry, he said, were not going to be got rid of so easily.” It is rather significant to find the Premier thus threatened with a dissolution. For all the confidence expressed by Mr Stout in the stability of the Ministry, a dissolution is an event quite on the cards for next session.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1674, 16 February 1885, Page 2
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185A Significant Hint. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1674, 16 February 1885, Page 2
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