NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10298, 29 July 1911, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

(Received July 28. 8.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 28. The outgoing Ministry will continue the administration of the Public Service Departments until the new Cabinet is formed. Late last night the Speaker . Mr McCann, resigned-his position. This J puts the situation in a. tangle whinli will prove hard to unravel except by o dissolution; The House will meeting on Tuesday : without a Speaker. There are fortyfour members on each side,, the Liberal® and Independents being ranged against'the Labourites. The non-Labour Party will accept, the Speakership. Mr Holman states that the resignation of the Government was not contemplated until Messrs Home and Dunn caused the loss of the working majority on which they relied since taking office. He was sorry the House . did not carry the adjournment motion, and he advised the LieutenantGovernor to prorogue the House until after the bye-elections. His advice wj.s riot accepted, and the only course left open to him was to resign.;, ; ■ • , Mr Griffiths, in the course of an in- i terview, attacked the LieutenantGovernor, asserting that he had dis- . played partiality. He stated that the Governor had disfranchised the peo-; pie by nbt acting on the advice of the i .Government.? which, on the last divis-'J ion of the House, showed it had o I majority of five.