THE CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT.
(Times and Sydney Sun Cables.) Received 6-1-0 p.m., April 26, LONDON, April 25. The "Times" correspondent at Pc-
kin says the new temporary Cabinet will take over the administration from the Palace, carrying on until a definite programme, involving the convention of Parliament and the appointment of a Constitutional Cabinet, has been arranged between the at.ti-Monarchists when control of the situatin by the new Cabinet is assured by Pekin. <
Kwangtung is quieter,
There is every, reason to believe the transition will be effected without the wholesale breakdown of the machinery of Government.
■ LONDON, April 25.- J The House of Lords w.is crowded at the secret session. Strangers, including the Press, were Kigorously excluded. Lord Rosebery was present for the first" time since the division on the Parliament Act, when he described his speech as his "swan song."
LONDON, April (25^ Mr Frederick Harrison, writing "in the Times, says there is no reascyn why there should not be a general election. He suggests a Short Act '-v.piifvmec the machinery and enabling all elections to be held on one day, and a-ll electioneering to be over within a-week. Failing .this," he recommends a- • referendum on the question wb.eth.ev there should be a change of Government. '-" ■, -
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXI, Issue 16604, 27 April 1916, Page 5
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