THE DISSOLUTION INCIDENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 20 September 1907, Page 3

THE DISSOLUTION INCIDENT.

I SIR JOSEPH WARD'S VIEWS. I Considerable applause greeted the, Minister of Customs shortly before two o'clock on Thursday morning when <,he Speaker put the question for the third reading of the Tariff Bill, and tho Minister, contrary to expectations, did not call for a division, and the concluding stage of the measure was carried on the voices. Members on bjoth sides of the House took the opportunity rf congratulating Mr Millar upon the excellent work he. \m\ done, not only in regard to the preparation of the tariff, but also itpoln the manner in which he had piloted it through the House. The closing scenes saw the dissolution incident brought 'up agiin, the Leader

of the Opposition evidently trying to draw the Premier on the point'ami he succeeded in getting a Ministerial announcement on tho question. ' There had, said Mr Massey. been talk t of a dissolution as the result of certain voting on this tariff, and members had been coerced. It was, however one ' thing to ask for a dissolution and' an other pitting it before all the possihililies of the House had been exhausted To this Sir Joseph Ward repli;,] thllt the granting of a dissolution was entirely prerogative of the representative of the King, But whoever was the hed of the Government had his rights and he (Sir Joseph Ward) was prepared to oxerc.se horn i„ Bncll x „.„£ > , " £ ■oved to he right, and no one e0,,11 Jl hnn. If ta believed it to be ? J ance with the maintenance of the t" ditions of the high office he leh ,o" >«dy could stop him from reli q ''„ " his position or prevent >,;,„ ' i" is »"g -n«w leader, brought info he ™ r a l>y the hand of death ~ w V liable right to S'tt He had nether asked nor had he, refused, but he knew what his rlwmc. He was not thinkin™ 'f,t pcrconai gaiety, but o. the of the high traditions of his office He was not going to be trodden upon l,v My members of the House, whethe'r they were supporters or from the Onposition benches. J