COMMONWEALTH CABLES.
QUEENSLAND LABOR PARTY. IJiiiTitD Phess Association. Brisbane, Mav 21. The latest returns show ;< slightly improved Liberal position, and indicate 111 seats lor Labor and 2'J for the Liberals, bliougli a number are si ill capable of alteration. Apparent ly tho only .Ministers who will -survive are Messrs Tolmie (Lands) and Colonel Kankine (Itailways). Tho chances of Mi,, others appear beyond hope, and recognising the position as hopeless. Mi- Denbam (the Premier) sent in Hie resignation of the .Ministry. The Governor, on Mr Penhain's advice, sent for Mr Myan. leader of the Laborites, io form a Cabinet.
Prominent polil icians incline to 1 lie belief that tin' disastrous debacle of tlie Liberals is chiefly <U\c to two factors, the liigh cost of living and hos-
tility to the compulsory clauses of the Hleetioils Act. A Socialist candidate, while the elections were in progress, had a paralytic seizure, and died in a few hours.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, 26 May 1915, Page 3
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154COMMONWEALTH CABLES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, 26 May 1915, Page 3
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