Want of Confidence
Ix tho House last night Mr Montgomery, the member for Akaroa, moved an amendment, " That the Government should be requested to reduce the current estimates by not less than £75,000." Sir Robert Stout said that this meant a refusal of supplies, to the Government, he therefore accepted it as having the effect of a noconfidence motion. We. are glad tkat this debate has come on early in the session, beoause the question of the strength of the Ministry will be definitely set at rest in a few days, and the business of the country allowed to go on. That Mr Montgomery's amendment will be rejected we are confident, not co much because the House desires to throw out the principle that economy is absolutely necessary in the present-circumstances of the colony, but because Mr Montgomery would be unable to form a Ministry which could seoure a working majority ih the House. .
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 152, 3 June 1886, Page 2
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154Want of Confidence Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 152, 3 June 1886, Page 2
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