AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 25, 30 September 1913, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

GRIFFITH WADE DISPUTE.

(.By Eleotrio 'Telegraph—Copy right j LUnited Press Association.] (Received 8.45 aim.)

Sydney, September 29. Mr Wade declines Mr Holman’s challenge to re-state the charges against Mr Griffith outside the House. He says he has given the Government a sufficient opening in making the charges on the floor of the House. “If Mr Holman’s conscience is clear,” he continues, “let him place my speeches in the hands of a royal commission and I will produce evidence to upport every assertion. BURNT IN EFFIGY. A raesasge from Dorrigo to the Sydney Daily Telegraph on Monday, 2Lst inst, says:—lndignation which is felt at Mr C. G. Wade’s attempt to block the Norton Griffith agreement, under which a Dorrigo to Glenreagh railway was to be constructed, manifested itself .on Saturday night in the burning of an effigy of, the Opposition leader. A procession, headed by the town band, marched up' the mairi ; street with a dummy in a cart drawn by residents to market square/ where the stake wdei prepared. The image had on,*’-it -“Tried and fdun'd ’ wanting.” Abopit people g&tlief&d' and fhll into line to jthe strains : pf* *he t‘T)ead March,” and watched the effigy go up in smoke. Liberal residents resent the action of these people.