POLITICAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 221, 16 March 1912, Page 5

POLITICAL.

THE NEW CABINET. SIR JOSEPH WARD WILL NOT-Jlf ACCEPT PORTFOLIO, ;'J| By Telegraph—Press Ajeooiution. Wellington, Last Night.' : '&2 A Dunedin suggestion that the leaderi-jS ship of the Liberal-Labor party had beea"'jf allocated to Hon. J. A, Millar was menVjv, tioned to the Prime Minister on his rival in Wellington from the nor,th night. Sir Joseph Ward said: position is exactly as I indicated to House, I have,not changed the opinionJJ I arrived at and which I publicly The euggestion-that I made an equivocal. reference as to the colleagues to be" lected new leader has no fication. - I have held one. opinion along, namely, that the new should,select his own colleagues, and I have never at any time suggested that the new leader should be haniperied in-; his selection by submitting his pro-.-v. spective Cabinet to a caucus I have been communicated with since myarrival here regarding the suggestion-' 1 !'; hat I was likely t» hold 1 a, portfolio in-/ & the new Ministry, but I should like to give it an -emphatic contradiction) as t'friM intention of doing anything of "r| MR. PAYNE AT GREY LYNN.

AN UPROARIOUS MEETING. Auckland, Last Night. A stormy meeting of about 700 met, Mir. Payne, M.P. for Grey Lynn, to-' j i night. The proceedings Masted nearly four hours, during which Mr. Payne, in spite of much hostile demonstration, de- ' livered his speech. After question* had' S been answered, the meeting closed in up- ■' roar, no .motion being carried. '*4