PARTY POLITICS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13675, 8 May 1912, Page 3

PARTY POLITICS.

THE RIVAL LEADERS. (Per United Press Association.! AUCKLAND, May 7. Referring to the Premier's speech at Baleiutha, Mr Massey said (hat what Mr Mackenzie did at Baleiutha was to give a quotation from an anonymous letter which, he says, appeared in the London Financial .Journal, and he did not even give the name of the journal referred to, I he Prime .Minister's reply was a ini.-e"-ahle ((nibble, and ho (Mr Massey) repeated his former reply, that any .statement that any member of the Opposition attempted to injure the credit of the country in any way was absolutely contrary to fact. The knowledge that a five million loan had been floated in London came to the House as a surprise, and outside the Cabinet not a single member of "Parliament had the slightest idea of the intention of the Government to (dace such a large loan upon the money market at the time. There was nothing else in Mr Mackenzie's speech, as reported in Auckland, except the mere point that Mr Mackenzie said he (Mr Massey' had said a Mackenzie could always lie bought. To this Air Massey replied, “It is a paltry thing in the extreme, and it is also untrue. As a matter of fact, I have sent a. telegram to Air Mackenzie as follows: ‘Will yon give me your authority for your statement that I said a Mackenzie could always be bought?' ’’ Mr Massey added Air Malcolm, mem her for Clntiui, would reply to Air Alackenzie at Baleiutha.