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fluency of speech served him well and 

 carried him far. He is to-day the most 

 polished and eloquent speaker in the 

 New South Wales Parliament, and he 

 comes to the Premiership with a 

 ripened experience of men and affairs 

 which time has enabled him to gather. 

 For brilliancy and cleverness in debate 

 Mr. Holman is the bright particular 

 star in the Labour firmament. But he 

 belongs to a more advanced school 

 than Mr, McGowen, and may be ex- 

 pected to make the pace of his party 

 much warmer than his old chief would 

 have considered expedient. How far 

 he will succeed as Parliamentary 

 leader and Premier of a Labour Cabi- 

 net is as yet only a question of specu- 

 lation. He has not come to the Pre- 

 miership in the fulness of political op- 

 portunity. His part}- holds office by 

 the smallest Of majorities, and the fact 

 that the majority depends on Mr. Willis 

 and Mr. Beeby makes it as uncertain 

 as it is small. Presumably Mr. Hol- 

 man will be satisfied if he can keep 

 things happily balanced until the 

 autumn, when Parliament will expire 

 by the natural effluxion of time. It is 

 on the coming general elections that 

 Mr. Holman will need to concentrate 

 his energy and ability, for if the recent 

 State polling in the Federal elections 

 be any guide, his part}' will have to 

 fight for their lives. 



Visit of British Ms. P. 



Twenty members of the British 

 Houses of Parliament have accepted 

 the invitation of the Australian Branch 

 of the Empire Parliamentary Associa- 

 tion, and will visit Australasia, arriv- 

 ing in Wellington at the end of August. 

 As the trip, which includes an unofficial 

 visit to Canada, will occupy four 

 months, man}- of the most notable 

 M's.P. will be unable to spare the time 

 to come, but amongst the twenty there 

 will certainly be some of high standing 



at home. It is very significant that 

 Lord Emmott, Under-Secretary for the 

 Colonies, is coming, for never before 

 has a Colonial Secretary visited Aus- 

 tralia. Mr. Winston Churchill, whilst 

 Under-Secretary, made a trip to East 

 Africa, and Mr. Chamberlain visited 

 South Africa after the war, returning 

 therefrom to adumbrate his Tariff Re- 

 form programme which has consigned 

 his part}' to the cold shades of Opposi- 

 tion ever since. It ought to be compul- 

 sory for every Colonial Under-Secre- 

 tary to visit the Over-Seas Dominions 

 of the Empire, or for such previous visit 

 to make a man eligible for the post. 

 Other members of the visiting party 

 are: — Lord Sheffield (Liberal), better 

 known as Lord Stanley of Adderley, a 

 great authority on education ; Lord 

 Castlemaine, an Irish peer and a 

 Unionist; Mr. C. B. Stuart-Wortley, a 

 Unionist K.C., was at one time Under- 

 Secretary for Home Affairs, is a direc- 

 tor of the Great Central Railway, and 

 an Ecclesiastical Commissioner ; Mr. 

 Will Crooks, one of the most popular 

 and shrewd of Labour M's.P., a work- 

 house boy, who has reached a great 

 position by his own unaided efforts ; 

 Sir Joseph Walton, a great traveller, 

 Liberal M.P. for the Barnsley division 

 of Yorkshire, in which county he owns 

 extensive mines ; he is an authority on 

 China; Mr. Arthur Sherwell, a Liberal 

 M.P., but first of all a great temper- 

 ance reformer and social worker, who 

 has done more for the same control of 

 the liquor traffic than anyone in Par- 

 liament since Sir Wilfrid Lawson ; Mr. 

 Hamar Greenwood, a Canadian by 

 birth, a former Parliamentary Secre- 

 tary to Winston Churchill ; one of the 

 counsel for Canada at the Hague Arbi- 

 tration on the Newfoundland Fisheries. 

 A splendid conversationalist and after- 

 dinner speaker. Many of the visitors 

 are accompanied by their wives 



