POLITICAL.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3690, 6 May 1884, Page 3

POLITICAL.

Auckland, This day. Sir G. M. O'Rorke has received the resignation of Mr Allan M'Donald, M H.R. for the East Coast. It had been posted in Auckland, but there was nothing to show in whose hands the resignation had been since Mr M'Donald had left. GiSBortNE, This day. It is proposed to ask Sir Julius Vogel to contest the vacant seat for the East Coast. Mr Recs will be a candidate for the seat. Maeton, This day. MrC. J. Wilson, M.H.R., addressed- his constituents at Sanson on Saturday night, and received a vote of thanks and confidence. Wellington, This day. Sir George Grey passed through here yesterday on his Southern tour. He will be accompanied by Mr Mitchell, of the Hansard staff. CiiRiSTCHUECii, This clay. Mr Montgomery, M.H.R., addressed a large meeting in Christchurch last night. Ho challenged a number of Major Atkinson's facts and figures, and maintained that Taranaki and Wellington had obtained a most unfair share of public expenditure to the detriment of the South. He repeated most of tho points of his Akaroa speech, saying there was nothing in it to retract or explain. He advocated one Local Government for each Island, with a Federal Government of restricted powers. He believed no good could be done in the present House, and wished it simply to pass Supply for a month, and then be dissolved. A resolution that Mr Montgomery was worthy of the respect and confidence of the electors of the colony was carried almost unanimously. An amendment declining to express confidence in him as a leader until they heard Sir George Grey was negatived by a largo majority.