LIBERAL LEADERSHIP.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1470, 19 June 1912, Page 4

LIBERAL LEADERSHIP.

W ; 'WHV jilt; MILLAR WAS:KOTA'w; : ' :-^;:' : Vv,,.",. . CHOSEN./ ' '^i\^(By'"'Telegraph.—l'Mss• Associativa.)-; . ■ ■;*■■:; ■■■■■■•■. ■ Qunedin. .Tune. ■■" ■.*Tli'o""Hoii/G. W.' Russell addrcwwl ra? public meeting this evonins or. political questions. ...The attendance .numbered, abnnl ;)5U persons. ■' • ■ ' "V. /S'Hif ■ The. Slinkier dealt', with some 'of ...the. matters touched on b> 1 him in "is speech; nt-Porl- Chalmers on the previousMjich,! , .-., Ho called ai.U-ntioii to the fact.-thalj/.0ut,,. of all tho Liberal measures now oiivtnn, Staltilo Book, the Opposition was prepared: to repeal only the Second Ballol. Act, nn<k lie ne'-ievc-d that there were not five mom-; bers in' (ho House who would v«l.q. : ii>r tho'retention of that metisurc. Tliv-isct\ tliiit the OpiMsition would not repeal. >\\\p; othei' moasiircs tos is eomnlinifiit If; H»]->; lance, Scddon, Ward, and other Libovnl,; lciders Ho referred*'to the progress.of;; tho Dominion nuotintr (he 'revenup of the Postal Department-, thcMn-:': ercasp in deposits in the savings bunk, , andi tlio inrgvr parniiiEs oi" the riul« J iiys.s;-:Tn> spcaliing of the Arbitration. Act lit- wilt;, ■ iiiat lip'would like to sen a man of the:, typo of Sir. luomas, oC the Labour' 'liartmeiit at tho head of the Aibitrn-.-. tion Court. He believed thnt if, by any'i unholy eomliiimtion, the present Govern.; nu'iit'was dcfentncl and an appml made', to tho eovmtrjY people would not nliiee.' iiv. power Hie parly which they had at-! ready rejected seven times at (he n0i15,; , ;, , ; , ; Etferring te the W;adorsliip of the Gov-V eminent party lio said that, at the recents cßiicii.s, five members of the party had' declined Iβ follow e Govpriiii'cnt led by tho Hon. .1, A. Millar, so that, hail Mr. Miller been selected as lender and those wen had ndhoiwl to tho position whirh they took up, the Gnvernmnnt. would have Wn doomed from the. ouUei..-. ..; ■ •The Miniflcr was necor<k\i a 'ous vote of Hunks. ;.. s . . -~y