MINISTERIAL CRISES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 643, 21 October 1909, Page 7

MINISTERIAL CRISES.

, VICTOMA. (By Teltcraj>li-Ere«s 1 Asßoclation-CojyrljtiM Melbourne, October 20. Tho 'Murray (State)' Ministry is fated with tlio position that it can'only carry its land tat proposals as they stand) with tho /ißSistfinco o£ tho Labour party, atid against its own followers. , ■ .. A crisis theroforo appears to bo imminont. . . [The Bent Government was difoatM mainly through tho agency of tho Country J>&rty, fcUd Mr. Murray ,\whb had moved tho tm-cotrndenco motion, formed a: 1 Cabinet. 'ThO now Govern- ; niont immediately proceeded to fujnuuato & progressive land tax that is far, more caloulatod , , to appeal to tho Labour Opposition than tolhO Country party, Mid thus tho present-.curious ; . position lias arisen. Ono of: tho inftih argument* advanbed by. the progressive I4nd-tast6f4 ; is tho exodus of settlers from Victoria clUo, It is. Said, to earth-hunger.]. NEW TASMANI AN. LABOUR CABINET^, 'I i Hobart, October 20. 1 i Mr. J. Earlo, Leader Of the. L&bo»r. party*. who was commissioned to form a Ministry in succession to that of Sir Elliott .Lolris,■ has' : announced that tho now Government will Co&< | ■ sist of tho following:— r v Mr. Earle—l'reinier, Attorney-General, and 1 1 Education. \-y :' J Mr. Ogden—Treasurer.' ' : ' • ' .y. : ;.v,■Vv! ! Mr. ionsen—Chief Secretary. ......... : Mr. Long—Lands. . ! : A THREE-CORNERED. POSITION. ■ Sir 15. N, LGwisV .consisting of anti-Socialist .elements, was dofcatod oil a . ■ no-ct>nJlidenco »4otioii , 'mbi[«l';'.W i A' distttislrtd" momber of its.own folWing, . 'rho 1 voting was 18 to, 10, tho majority consisting 01 , ' tho tweiv.e Labour members and v and five other : Ministerialists.. : Mr. Ewing declared thst.'lf tho Governor (Major-General Sir Harry Matron) feont for him:, ; ho would form a Ministry and would SUbinit 1 a policy that the House'and the country would: ' support. But Mr. Ewing, l through his Wreck' .' ing policy, has greftly annoyed tnoso who had . ■ hoped that tho attti-Socialist fusioh would hold. 1 together. It was,' therefore, a matter of littlo. surpriso that tho defeated premier, Sir E. N.' Lowis, Oharged'Mr.iKwiflg vrith sacri- ' iicing tho interests of the party and country to personal ambition, recommended the Governor to Send for tho Labour Leader, Sir. Earlo. It is still not clear lio\f Mr. Earlo can govern with a following of twelve, and tho ult(- ■ watt result may bo a dissolution,-although tho. general elections—which, by tho Way, wcrO held to be a triumph for- Brercrentl.il/voting— worfl held but recently. There would 6eem to be little likelihood Of a Labour-Efting. fcoalition; for Mr; • Earlo, whilr supporting'the' ho- ,wv Confidence motion, at tho .samo timo reviled Its mover for "his devious eolirso in politics," 1 ' ;