Last week we wrote about the constitutional crisis in New
South Wales. In the Times of Wednesday we- read _that events there have taken an unexpected. turn.; At the instance of Mr. Lang, the Labour Pxemier, the Governor, Sir Dudley de Chair, had consented to a' swamping nomination of members to the Legislative; Council. Mr. Lang was intent upon abolishing the. Council which he calls a reactionary body, though in fact it has always interpreted its revising duties tem- perately. This nomination to the Council of twenty-five, new members was the largest ever made in the history, of New South Wales. Mr. Lang assumed that his' nominees would vote for political suicide. But he was; mistaken. In vain he threatened that if the members' of the Council were obstinate he would deprive them of the rights to prefix " Honourable " before their names and to travel free on the Sydney tramways. By a majority of six the Council threw out the motion to restore the Abolition Bill to the business paper.
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