SIR JOSEPH'S MOVEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10283, 11 July 1911, Page 4

SIR JOSEPH'S MOVEMENTS.

In reply to a somewhat feeble cscJaifman om the pant of some i-tinis-terial apologists, the Otago Daily Time® says, that its authority for the statement that Sir Joseph Ward will i succeed to. the High Camams-urmer-ship was derived from those 'vh> rto fess to enjoy the Ministerial denoe, and who,' moreover, would not have given .publicity to the i e;i frfc if they had not good reason for believing it to be entirely well-founded. Our contemporary adds:—"For o-;r own part, we should think it not unlikely'that, for the present, a eat on the Imperial Royal Commissi.hi which, representative of all parts of the Empire, is to be set up to consider' the question of Imperial trade relations, would be more acceptable to Sir Joseph Ward than the High Commiscionership would be. But, whatever the intentions of the Prii.ie Minister may be, the electors have already received the hint from a > tion of the Ministerialists of the Dominion, that if the Government should be so fortunate as to secur; a renewal of the confidence of the people at the general election it may, next Parliament, be under a different head from that it now poii'sses. The electors will have to consider whether they may reasonably be asked to draw a blank cheque in favour of some undisclosed Prime Minister."