A VISIT TO GOVERNMENT HOUSE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3569, 8 July 1912, Page 5

A VISIT TO GOVERNMENT HOUSE

HIS EXCELLENCY AGREES TO CHANGE HIS ADVISERS. RIVAL LEADERS INTERVIEWED. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.J WELLINGTON, July 7. Sir Arthur Guinness, Speaker of the House of Representatives, accompanied by a number of members of the House, waited upon the Governor yesterday and conveyed to his Excellency the formal.text of the Address-in-Re-ply, with' the following addition : “Ws feal it, however, to be otfr duty to submit to Your Excellency that it is essential that Your Excellency’s Government should possess the confidence of the House and cf the country, and respectfully to represent io Your Excellency that such confidence is not reposed in the Government as at present constituted.”

His Excellency added to his reply the following paragraph :

“With rafsrenca to the paragraph in your reply to my Speech intimating to ms that tha Housa has no confidence in my advisers as at present constituted, I tissira to assura you. that 3 shall taka the necessary steps to appoint advisers who will possess tha confidenca of Parliament.” 1

Mr. T. Mackenzie tendered his resignation to the Governor at 5-30 p.m. yesterday, and recommended that Mr. Massey be sent for. - When the House meets on Tuesday afternoon Mr Mackenzie will make an announcement to that effect. The House will probably adjourn to Thursday, when Mr, Massey will announce the personnel of his Cabinet. 'There will then bo an adjournment ■ of a couple of weeks to enable tha new Ministry to arrange its affairs for the session. Mr. Mackenzie declined to make any miblic statement when approached yesterday morning. He said lig was glad that the fight was over. He felt more irea from care than lie had done for the last five years. He had nothing to reproach himself with—the fight had been fought on clean and wholesome lines, and the result could only be awaitedHis resignation would he handed in to His Excellency the Governor in due course. Mr Massey, interviewed, stated that •he could not sav anything at present, except that lie had received sheaves of telegrams. He had seen the footnote to His Excellency’s answer to the Address-! n-RepJy. lie expected that lie would he called n]ion on Monday or Tuesday, and that when the Hduse met he would ask for an adjournment for a day or two, and would then meet the House and submit his iilans. The Legislative Council will meet on Tuesday, as the appointment of a Chairman of Committees is* fixed for that day. It is considered almost certain that Hon- IV. C. E- Carneross will be appointed. " 1 'The Council will then adjourn from? dav to day so long as the House of Representatives sits to transact the business of the new Ministry.

a brief interval. When his Cabinet is formed be will meet Parliament, and in all probability will ask for a three weeks’ adjournment te get ready for- the work of the session. It is clear, however, that owing to the interregnum and the consequent delay net a very great deal of legislation can he attempted this sessionThe policy of the party will no doubt be fully developed in the Financial Statement.