WHEN THEY SEE-!

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3452, 17 February 1912, Page 7

WHEN THEY SEE-!

WILL THE PREMIER WIN? EX-M.P.’S BELIEF. (Special to Times..) NAPIER, Feb. 16. In conversation with an ex-member of Parliament to-day your correspondent was informed that he believed, and ho had excellent reasons for saying so, that Sir Joseph Ward would win on a no-confidenco vote, owing to the fact that certain Independent members would vote with Sir Josejih Ward after they knew what he had t-o offer them. After leading the Governor's Speech it should not be difficult for even the political tyro to nominate the two who would go 'with the Government.

A HAPPY CATHERINC. SPEAKER AND THE PRESS. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 16. “The fourth estate” received official recognition in a very pleasant form this afternoon,- when the Speaker of the House (Sir Arthur Guinness) invited members of the Press Gallery and the Hansard staff to meet him m the card room. " . , .- In proposing the health of the chairman <Mr Ch E. Wheeler) and vicechairman (Mr Stanley Muir) of the gallery and the chief of the Hansard staff(Mr Silas Spragge) the Speakerreferred to the unique and histor/eal character of the present session, which.; differentiates from every other since the grant of constitutional Government in 1852. If the proceedings became at times acrimonious, he believed that the fair and accurate reports in the press would assist in preventing any such scenes as had sometimes disgraced the Parliaments of other countries. The health of the Speaker was proposed bv ilr W. H. Triggs (editor of the Christchurch “Press”) and was spoken to by Messrs Mark Cohen (editor of the Dunedin “Star”’) and Mr .J. ‘Oakley Browne (Press Gailery).