AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9118, 10 April 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

MR DEAKIN DEFEATED. THE HOUSE ADJOURNED. Per Press Association. Received April 9, 10 9.28 a.tn. Melbourne, April 10. At a late hour last night Mr Dcakin suffered a reverse which caused him to adjourn the House till Wednesday in order that Government might consider the position. The crisis arose out of a motion moved by Mr Webster for the appointment of a Royal Commission to supersede the Cabinet Committee now about to commence an enquiry into Post Office disorganisation. The adjournment of the debate was moved and Ministerialists were defeated by 31 to 28, and Mr Deakin intimated that -he accepted it as a vote of censure on Government. What the result will be depends largely upon the labour party, but as the caucus was not solid on Mr Webster’s proposaljit is probablehnatters will be smoothed over.