NATIONAL CABINET PROPOSALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3998, 3 August 1915, Page 4

NATIONAL CABINET PROPOSALS.

YESTERDAY’S CONEERENCK. N« ANNOUNCEMENT possible. yet. expectancyln'the lobbjes. Telegraph—Special Correspondent Lv JJ-L WELLINGTON, Aug. 2 'ITio conference arranged by the Oovtoo,- in roe arrl to tin, Xauo.n.l Cabinet proposal was held tills altdzioon. At the conclusion it was -state ,‘i fcv Air Massey and Sir Joseph Ward', in reply to questions, that there was no announcement to bo made in regard to what had taken place K peculation a.s to what had happened was very rife during the evening one report being that no National Cabinet was likclv, but no official information was available. , The Prime Minister, when soon oy your representative late this evening, repeated Ids previous statement teat there was no announcement to ji> rmtoc regarding the proceedings at. the, conference. , ... When pressed again, ho saio : i can o.’dv sav that the conference brokeup at about 6 o’clock and that me negotiations, so far as they have gone, iviU have to be submitted to the rank and file of the two parties. Beyond this Mr Massey would not ‘Will an adjournment of the House b„ necessarv f” ho was asked. “An adjournment for a short. jv-ruM will certainly be necessary ir a National Cabinet is formed, • was <<-•- j,!-.- 11 hut 1 do not say that, it win >*> m&ssary to have an adjournment. [t is understood that meeting- 0,. too two parties will be hold to re-.-ue and discuss the report or what done at to-day’s conference ano. uriu] these meetings take place, no definsttannouncement, of course will he possible. The feeling in the lobbies i« <>t;e of expectation that a National Cabinet will be formed