NEW FEDERAL PRIME MINISTER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2603, 27 October 1915, Page 6

NEW FEDERAL PRIME MINISTER

MR&W..M. HUGHES

3nSFISHER ACCEPTS piH COMMISSIONEHSHIP Bj Telegrftpli—Prcßa A£Soclatton—Courrljjiil (Hoc. Ootober 27, 0.5 a.m.) -Melbourne, Ootober 26. 'After, to-day's Cabinetmeeting it was .announced that Mr. Fisher, had accepted the High Commissioriership, and had resigned hie, seat for Wide Bay and the Prime Ministry. The.Labour Canous has elected Mr. iW. M. Hughes' (Federal Attorney-Gen-«ral) to be Leader of the Party, and is ■considering the .reconstruction of the Cabinet. ' I [Mr. Wm. Hughes, the new FederalPrime. Minister, has V been, Attorney-, • General •of ■ ■ the Commonwealth from .'■November, 1903, to June 1909, and Bince i'April, 1910, and' has been twico Acting- ■ .Prime Minister for long periods. The 'miost brilliant member or the Federal. : Cabinet, arid has always exerted a pow,(erful. influencein ihe councils of his iparty. A Welshman, horn in 1864; some (time a school'teacher, and en-, igaged in various occupations in Ams•jtralia until his election to New- South (Wales Parliament in 1804. He organised the Sydney Waterside Workers, and Jater the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia, and became their, ruling influence. Had a great deal to do ,\vitli the settlement of the coal strike of ; 1910.' Called to the N.S.W. Bar in 1903. •Has represented West' Sydney in the' of Representatives since Federa.'tidn. Minister for External Affairs in j the'first Federal Labour Government, 51904, Cliairman of the Royal Commission on Navigation, 1905 r and delegate ,to the Imperial' Navigation Conference, (1907.] _____