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POLITICAL.
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COMPLETION OF THE NEW MINISTRY.
MESSRS FYSH AND PIESSE EXCHANGE
SEATS.
(rY TELEGRAPH)
(Pr?Oa OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
HOBART, Fa?DAY.
The stumbling block which beset the
path of the Braddon-Fysh combination has
been removed, and nothing now remains
but for them to march in and set their
house in order. The member for Glenorchy
(Mr J. Hamilton) proved to be anything
but a complaisant party to the arrange
ment drafted, whereby he was to put
country before everything, and make the
effort to fill the vacancy in Mr Fysh's
electorate, handing over to that gentleman
his own warm corner of Glenorchy. Some
how he did not quite see it in the light
under which others chose to regard it.
However ready he might have been in the
past to coquette with all and sundry, and
at a moment's notice fill the bill of the
political rodent, he could not be made to
see why he should give up a certainty for
the biggest of big uncertainties; nay, it
might be said improbabilities, for it was
very frail hopes he could have of getting
in for Buckingham. " Honourable" would
be a nice prefix, htl with it-assuming its
being obtained-was only two years of occu
pancy of the seat, and then-well matters in
futuro could not be said to be charming.
He could not see it, or if he could he would
not, and the coming Treasurer had to look
elsewhere. There were no fewer than five
spontaneous offers made him, so says that
gentleman, but fortune especially favoured
in one of these, that of Mr Piesse, who lives
in the Buckingham electorate, whilst,
strange to say, Mr Fysh too has been an
elector of North Hobart for thirty years
past, so what objection could the respective
electorates take to the contemplated
change ? The leaders of opinion in
each electorate were hastily consulted,
and when the party met this afternoon it
was announced that all had been arranged,
and that the new Cabinet would assume
control of the colony's affairs the next dnv.
Public excitement regarding the p·..,-..
having been gratified by definitude has
now sunk to a normal condition.
Sir Edward Braddon this afternoon had
an audience with his Excellency the
Governor, and placed before him the
personnel of the new Ministry, which was
approved of, and at noon to-morrow those
gentlemen will be sworn in. The new
Cabinet is determined that they will bring
down their proposals with the least pos
sible delay. I'heir re-election will absorb
21 days, and Mr Fysh this afternoon, speak.
ing in the Legislative Couccil, expressed
the hope that the financial proposals of the
new Administration would be submitted to
the country within five weeks. It is stated
that their plan of action is in an advanced
condition, which may be anticipated to
arise from the fact that besides being old
hands at the work they have not been long
out of harness, and have kept tally of
what has passed ad interim. At any rate
the coming Treasurer advised a pressman
this afternoon that if it was not for the
elections he could come down with his
financial statement on Tuesday. The resig
nation of Mr Moore will make vacant the
Presidency of the Council, and it was
generally looked upon as certain that the
retiring Chief Secretary (the hen. Adye
Douglas) would by right of seniority and
public service step up into Mr Maoore's
office, but in this there has been a little
reckoning without the host. Mr Douglas
is unwilling to thus take leave of the arena,
and unless he should make a sudden change
of front someone else will have to fill the
vacancy. One reason that he advances,
apart from his personal objection to come
out of the turmoil of battle, is that the hon.
W. Dodery by his apprenticeship in the
Chairmanship of Committees has esta
blished a pre-emptive right to preferment.
With Mr Dodery thus promoted the
Council will have to look around for a new
Chairman of Committees, and if Mr
Watchorn will take this it is thought pro
bable he will be placed in the position.
There is no announced opposition to any
member of the Ministry yet except Mr A.
I. Clark, but there is a possibility of Mr
Burrowes-who ran Mr Hamilton within
14 votes at the last election-opposing Mr
Piesse for Buckingham. Immediately after
Ministers are sworn in writs for the new
elections willbe issued, and arrangements
have been made whereby the necessary
accompanying resignations of seats in
volved in the arrangements made will be
tabled conjointly.
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