THE RELATIVE STRENGTH OF PARTIES

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 53, 7 June 1884, Page 2

THE RELATIVE STRENGTH OF PARTIES

Subjoined is an estimate of the streLgth of the Ministerial and Opposition patties, excluding the Speaker, at the opening of the session. It is based partly on the antecedents of members, ami partly on the declarations which certain of them have made, or are reported to have made, as to the position they will probably take when Parliament assembles. Concerning some on both sides, considerable allowance must, of course, be made } but the lists as arranged will, we apprehend, be found eventually to approximate as nearly a,& possible to the actual adjustment of the opposing forces.

Ministerial—47. Allwright Newman Atkinson Mason Beetham Mackenzie Brown, J. E. Mcllwraith Bryce Mitchelson Buchanan, W. Munro Connolly Peacock Dick Petrie Dodson Postlethwaite Driver Kolleston Fergus Shaw Fitzgerald Shephard Fulton Stevens Green, J. Sutter Green, M. W, Sntton Ham! in Swanson Hobbs Tawhai Hurst Thomson, H« Hursthouse Trimble Johnston, C. Watt Johnston, W. W. Whitaker Kelly Whyte Larnach Wilson, J* S, Levestuin

Opposition—44. Barron McKeuzie Bathgdte McMillan Bracken Montgomery Browu, .J. C, Morris Buchanan, J. Moss Cadman O'Gallaghan Daniel Pearson Dargaville Pilliet De Liitour Pyke Duncan Richardson Feldwick Peddon Fish Sheehan George Shrimskie Grey Smith Harris Steward Holmes TaLiroa Hutchinson IMiomson, J. W Ivess Tole Joyce Tomoana Wakefield Turnhull Macandrew White, \V« Macdonald, J. Wyna-Williaims