MATTERS POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 13, 13 May 1912, Page 6

MATTERS POLITICAL.

THE PREMIER'S VIEWS. ll'er Press Association i Wellington, May 13. The Hon. T. Mackenzie, speaking lo a "Post" reporter, said that lie had just returned from an extensive tour of the South. The country is right. If a general election took place tomorrow be had not the slightest doubt tiiat the Liberal Party would come back with a good working majority. Replying to Mr Millar's prediction that the Government would be defeated on a no-confidence motion he said: "We are in the hands of the House. All I know is that the Liberal Party, at a conference, pledged themselves to support t'e.e men selected by the parly, if they fulfil that pkdgc we will carry on, but the Houso and the country need have no anxiety as far as I am personally concerned; i; the House says it does not want us we will accept the decision without argument; but we will use no means whatever to secure a majority. I know the constitutional position. An

appeal to the country cannot be made until the House has exhausted every other means, but there may be one or two ups and dovvns before that takes place."