MOTION OF CONFIDENCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1511, 6 August 1912, Page 6

MOTION OF CONFIDENCE.

MOVED BY DR. NEWMAN. AND CARRIED WITH ENTHUSIASM. ])r. A. K. Newman, member. for Wellington East,.-reminded the audience that when last lie had faced an audience ,m the Town Hail—at the Reform Rally on the eve of the elections—he had . prophesied that it would be "a very narrow thing," whether they would turn the Government out or not. There were jeers then at his sanguineness. But in February the fight was close—39 points each— ami the referee ordered another round in July. In the recess, the Reform party gathered their forces, together, and their Leader got homo a terrible punch one Friday night- He moved the following resolution:— "That this meeting has confidence . in the Reform party, and that it is glad to have confidence in the Honourable the Prime Minister and the Government ho has established." It was very interesting, ho went on to say, to hear Ministers promise so much. It' reminded liim of the old saying, "Courtship is bliss; marriage is sometimes, a blister." It was all very well to have joy meetings, but there was a serious side to the business, and that was the necessity to govern the country wisely and well. (Applause.) They had a good Ministry. "1 hope they do right," ho said, "because I want them to build a post office at Hataitai." (Laughter.) Ho also wanted a goo<ls-shed at To Aro. Tho right thing was going to bo put before the Government, and he hoped Wellington would have the good timo it deserved after being long neglected. The Ministry were yet young ami innocent; what they would bo when they grew older ho did not know. (Applause.) ' Backing a -Ministry was nearly as bad as backing a horse, but ho believed the Ministry would try honestly and well to do their duty. (Applause.) Tho chairman asked tho audienco to' carry the resolution by acclamation, which they did with great enthusiasm. Tho Prime Minister, acknowledging tho resolution,. thanked the people 'assemWed for their hearty congratulations, and for coming in their thousands to give tho party such a magnificent meeting. The party was a Reform party, but it was a democratic party also. They believed in democratic principles, and they were prepared to stand or fall by those principles. (Applause.) He called for ' a vote of thanks to the chairman.. Mr. Morison, he said, had been a good friend of the porty outside of Parliament, but he (Mr. Massey) hoped that iu the not far-distant future be would bo a friend of the party inside of Parliament. (Applause.)

Tlie death is recorded of Mr. .Tames' Whinray, of Gisborne, who for a quarter of a century past has been a prominent member of various local l»oilie«. It was largely-, through Mr. Whinray's persistent advocacy that the heavily-timbered Molu district was opened up for settlement by tho extension of the railway to the district. In Central Africa there is a tribe that only bestows the privilego of citizenship and marriage upon a mail when ho has climbed down a precipitous cliff. Over 1000 ships of various kinds and sizes sail up and down tho English Channel every 21 hours, aiid there aro seldom fewer than 200 near Land's End.