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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3070, 29 April 1881, Page 2

Me Sutton and Captain Russell addressed the electors at Wairoa last night, and were not only well received but secured for themselves votes of thanks and of confidence. As senior member, Mr Sutton spoke first, and for the most part travelled over the same ground that he took in his address at Napier. He again reiterated his devotion to the property tax, and, measuring the corn of others by his own bushel, thought the £500 exemption should be done- away with. There happen, however, to be 2031 holders of property in the Hawke's Bay district who by exemption do not pay the tax, and as this proportion is probably much about the same in all other districts, Mr Sutton's token of endearment to this form of burden is hardly .likely, to be endorsed by the electors. Mr Sutton supported the County system of local government as against a return to modified provincialism, and, to tickle the taste of Wairoa, he generally dissented from the views expressed by Mr Ormond at Waipawa. Mr Sutton is of course entitled to his own opinions, but it would, perhaps, have been wiser had he deferred any allusion to the possibility of the three Hawke's Bay members taking opposite sides in the House. We shall have something more to say about this on a future occasion. Captain Russell said nothing new, and once more announced himself as a staunch supporter of the present Ministry.