N.S.W. Politics.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 269, 17 May 1895, Page 3

N.S.W. Politics.

(Per _*ress Association.) Sydney May 16. Sir H. Parkes, in moving his hostile motion, said he would not be a party to placing tbe agricultural classes on a basis open to competition with another colony such as Victoria, where farmers were protected. He was not, and never bad been, a Freetrader in that sense, aud wished the Protectionists to understand that he was willing to make a truce with them so long as thay made no effort to restore Protectionist doctrines. This Day. In the Legislative Assembly Mr Reid, in replying to the debate on Sir H. Parkes' hostile motion, said the latter's alliance with Sir G. Dibbs was an unholy one. Sir H. Parkes eat in the House on Monday in silence, until he saw there was a chance of disturbing the political situation, and piloting himself back to power. He was a traitor to Freetrade, and was drag ging Federation from its high national level into tne mire of party politics, and making it a bone of contention. Sir G. Dibbs said he was sanguine of Federation being carried. His speech was a general attack on the policy of the Government. The latest estimates of the strength of parties made by the Herald, gives the Government a majority ot between 20 and 30.