MR VINCENT PYKE, M.H.R., AT TAPANUI.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1215, 12 June 1885, Page 3

MR VINCENT PYKE, M.H.R., AT TAPANUI.

{Otago Daily Times, Jane 6). Mr Vincent Pyke addressed- a wed at tended meeting of his constituents at Tapanni on Thursday evening. Th - Mayor (Mr M’R nno--) occupied the chair. Mr Pyke commenced by apologising for hiving been nnible through illn-ss to ad-di-ese a me ting on the occasion of his last visit to T-i-ai-ui. H- wis not going to ask fnr quarter, bee use hey might treat him as the Highlanders treated the English offi cer at the ba’tie of P-estonpans. and say “She’ll no stop to quarter you. she’ll just cut you in two.” (Langhto ).

THE PAST S'SSION. ] The first tiling they wore likely to ask him was as'O the proceedings of last so-sioo, ■Seme of them had oronounced an kccathedra opinion >n the subject at the time, hut he ps pinned that, because they could not know what was real'y going on. They had seen in the papers lately s mie statements mule by Sir ieorge Grey and others a‘>out the extraordinary incidents that took plane anterior to the meeting of the House, an I the sne 'ker did not hesitate to say that anything more extraordinary had never occurred in a free country. When he went up after the last genera l election he f >und in existence—ho did not like to say a conspiracy—but a combination, formed to seize, the cins of government by men who had not be n members nf Parliament for many years. IE it was not a conspiracy it was an invasion o f the rights of the representatives of the people Men who had been out of House- some for live years, some tor eight years or morn —formed themselves into a party to “ jump” the Government benches before the House met, and carried the thing so far as to go about offering office to men -of reputation like Sir George - Grey before ! they were a Government at all. Naturally the instincts of members revolted at that, i It was impossible to do anything else than I resent such an attempt, and had they done 1 ss than they did in helping to put out the first Vorel Government they would have shown themselves u lit to be the representatives of the pernio.—( A Voice : Question.”) The speaker did not know what that meant; he thought he was going very straight to the q eslion. What hap pene 1 was that half the tago venreaeiitatives said the first Government should not retain office, and he was one of them. The two Otasd members who voted foi them-* selves, Messrs St mi, and Manandrew. could not of course he counted. (A Voice/ “It is not coed enough ”) If it were not good enough, let th m say so at next election. What did men down there know about •what, was going on in Parliament? Were members who wore on the spot and understood the situation to send down and asx their constituent to convene a caucus anil tell them what to do. Th speaker would not for one. He would never subordinate bis opinions to the action of a minority among his constituents. The first Vogel government were put out because they worn illegally and impronerly in office. Then •came the Thomson fiasco. Who »var supposed that Thomson could forma .Ministry? —(f.anghter). He was simp'y a useful tool He was used and ill umd—the speaker was hound to say that. Thm came Major Atkins m with his bhmloring at empt to form a Government, which consisted, after all his promises, of the most objectionable members of the Old Atkinson party. Of course that could not be stood,and then the present Ministry enters, I office, lega'ly and rightly, because they came in by th- will ■of the people s represents! ives. (A polan«e). TVr fore 'hey received the support of a majority He did not kn >w whether he had made it clear, hut anyone must under Stan 1 the difference between a pare 1 of outsiders seizing office and members of the House properly takin ■ possession of th ■ Government benches. In addition to the 11 Gam members who voted against the irr gular Stout- Vogel Ministry, there were seve ral men whom it was tde custom to call leiders of the Liberal party—such as Sir Geor e G'ev, Messrs Dargavide, Rees. Shepherd. Ormond. Moss, and last, hut not least, Mr Tde, the present Minister of Justice, voted against them; and he had Eince been r ceived into the fold with open Writs as having done no wrong. p constitution op the governmf. t

Now, where, it might well he asked, was the Liberal party upon the Government benches? So much had be“n said about this Liberal p-'rty that, he was anxious to explain the whole position of public iff iirs at the present time. Where was the Liberal party »n the formation of the first S'outVogel Government ? There was Sir Julius Vogel, a gentleman who had always formerly been a coll ague of Major Atkinsm, and whom the speaker could certainly put down as a Conservative; there was Mr Stout, an opponent of Major Atkinson, and a Liberal; there was Mr Riehardson, a Conservative; and Mr Macandrew, his opponent; Captain Morris, the whip of the Atkinson party fo- years ; and dr Baliance and Colonel Whitmore, bo’h members of the Greyite following. It was a party witn a “ ball-mce,'' bnt without a policy. They coni I so little a ree that they ms le th > Coverno 1 ' sty in his address, “ My Advises are of opinion that it is undes-rahlo that questions of abstract policy should at pr-’sent he dealt with further than oienmstances render it imperative'y neeessaiy.” And they ook eare all the sessi n that circumstances should not render it necessary, because they knew well that Ministers conld not agrte open any questions of polity

whatever. The speaker would lit© to know to which party he was supoosed to belong in a hybrid Ministry like this—which.party he was to support.—A Voids ; “ i our Own,” The gentleman who made that ob« serration—no doubt intended to -e witty—had hit the mark. He w u-d support his own Government, ani vote for those things he believed to be right and proper without reference to party at all. The present Go vernment was a happy famil-, and he lo -ked a non it as a Government for the time. Ac present it mu >t he held in office, as the e was, so far as he said, no pr-sput of a better one daring the term of the present Parliament, And he said at once that if a direct vote was moved to put them out of office he should oppose it, not because they were the best vlinistry possibly, but because they w re the best that could be got at the time.—(applause)—and moreover they were in such a position that they must do what wai right, or go out of office. But if the Government brought d-wn any measure which he (the speaker) thought injurious, and tried to thru tit down his throat, he should vote against it, even though Minisera said, “If yon do we shall go out.” In that cas», then he should say “Go out.” But he would not be a party to putting them out upon a vote of want of confidence. H i was bound to say that the Government had done good work during the past session, and ha-1 kept saith more fatly than any Ministry whioh had preceded them. They ha'l not shown such partiality for the North Island at the expense of the Sou hj, and that alone was a very important thing, because during the post five years the Atkinson Govern ment had robbed the South of over two and a’nalf millions that should have been spent here.—( tpp'ause).

THE STATE O t PARTIES. As to the question of parties, it was quite time people cleai ed their minds of the cant that had l-een ta ked upon the su jeet. Mr Stout had given a good definition when he sai l that the essence of party government lay in the existence of the “ins” and the “ on's ” That embraced alt that was meant by party government in New Z-a land. A party to he a party should have a platform—distinct and positive principles , and there was no such thing he- o. He rather agreed with what Sir Julius Vogel said at Christchurch; “We hear a great deal about party struggles and a'-out this side and that, but it must have struck you, when you have seen men acting together as collea .ties who a - ear or two before wer,- unable to say sufficiently hard things against each other, that our party system is somewhat of a farce; that the-e is no very great dividing line between the opinions of public men, and they understand that their common ol ject is lo promote tbe welfare of the Col my. They m>y have different ideas as to the wav in which it is to he done, but the fact of their having a common o j ict, and of their being so few ways in which to effect it, robs so-called party distinc-ion of much of their re di y’’ There wag a great deal f truth in this. The speaker had always hel-1 with the old maxim, that measures should be preferred to men; ihat was whei e the wh-le thing rested, lie shoul I never be a good party man; loya-ty to principles was the m ixim be bad always kept before hj m, and he could not go out of his way to vote for a wrong thin just because it was pr -pose I by men of whom he approved. He had no resoect for men, hut only for their actions Let th m see what parly really le-i to. There we-t 91 members of the House, and 50 of them were a majo-i y. They again put into power as Ministers seven membe s ; four of these constituted a majority, wh-ch really reduced It to the fact of the whol - gov-rn iug power being given to four men. That was what c one of government by nmjo ities, and if it were not for independent men we should have an absolute autocracy —four men governing the Colony as they liked. Such a state of things would bring about almost a revolution. Nihilism would he as rampant heie as in Russia, and therefore when oeople got an independent representa.ive they should hail and welcome him.

THE COMING SESSION. He now came to the possible future about the haziest subj ct he c mid alk upon, because no onn know whether Mr Stout’s or Sir Julius Vogel’s “ tads ’’ were to bo looked foHe had already said that the Ministry wem certain to retain office during the session—that was, unless they wished' to go out; and he himself was in dined to think that the did want to be defeated, and to choote their own battlefield in order to appeal to the country. In that case he hoped there would be some hing to appeal about He had never yet seen an appeal to the country upon a matter that was worth an appeal; it had always been at to whether tiir George Grey or Major Atkinson was the fitter to hold office. JNo principles had been involved in any case, and the people, he thought properly, had always resented this waste of time and money by returning opponents to the than existing Government. He did not think the present Government would be guilty of this. He believed tiiey would make some great question a test, and he had a good idea what that question would be. There were two points of principle they might select. The first was

LOCAL GOVERNMENT. He did not think that would be the chosen ground, out it might be The Go "eminent ha I made certain pledges in the excitement of the past session which they found themselves ult rly unable to carry out. Sir Julius Vogel had said in the House i " We really and genuinely do mean the levival of a scheme of effectual local government —not in the old bm a new form—a perfect, e.ffi dent, and executive form.” Sir Ju ins Vogel, spe .king subsequently, ha I made the largest numlier of blunders upon the su-j ct possible to con ceive. clearly showing ihat neither he nor MrStoul was in the least fitted to deal with it. As a big boon, Sir Julius V gel pro posed to .authorise -he levying of tolls upon the roads, a thing which had been abolisbe 1 ny the dictum of common sense, an I which could be revived now wi hout any permission from the Government. 'The speaker sincerely hoped it never would be, as it was o e of the most barbaric ways of raising revenue ever devised. As to the details of the local government scheme we were left very much m tlie dark We weie talked to about assure I trance, but not told what it would he Reap oting this, one point struck the speaker—viz , that if there was any por ion of the revenue which should lie alloc .tel to local finance i was the property tax. The lax was raised on pionerty in a certain neighbourhood, an I a moiety of the money at least should be spent on roads and bridges, to enable the payers of the tax to travel in their district. This, however, was not lik-ly to lie the Government policy Rethought they were more likely to propose the abolition of the property tax akojelher and the incre ise of ciis oms mies. It so, they would find in him one of their most detenni ied o -pone ills. Property shoo'd be taxed, and ha was of opinion tbit customs Ou tea should be swept entirely awry. Ho was a F ee-t'-ader to the backbone—(Applause), With regard to local government, them was a great deal of confusion. When Mr rttont ' was at the head of an associate n formed In ’ Dunedin wiih the view of promoting ocal 1 government; hj» suggested that bach eduen-

fional district should bo. a divsionfor the purpose 'of focal government, That would mean, for instance, that Otago and Smithland would be- one district. The spe ker had no objection to the districts being edunational districts ; but he would begin at the other end and. make the educational districts smaller, and than let them become local government districts. Educational matters should be managed in the district itself, and the present constitution of the Education Board was an injustice to the members and to the public. But this did not enter into the plans a* the Government. It was a remarkable thing that when a man was merely a member of the House bis opinions were in a certain direction, but unfortunately as soon as he became a Minister they took a different direc tion altogether. He (the speaker) did not see any difficulty in giving local government bodies control of the police, the gaols, the charitable institutions, etc, without at all destroying the present local autonomy. So many counties might be taken, made one district, and given considerably larger powers. This might be do e, but it was a pity to see men he re spected, such as Mr Macaodiow and Mr Montgomery, attempting to bring back Provincialism—a thing they never could do. It was useless to talk about that, but we might have local bo des with very large powers to take over from Parliament the duty of dealing with a host of trumpery affairs, the consideration -f which would disgrace a parish ve try in England—(Ap plnusa). In order to show what an absurd thing the present system of local government was, he might quote some remarks from a speech ma e by himself in the Honse—“There are in this Colony the fnlliwing local bodies: Borough councils, 70, county councils 08, road 1 wards 296, town district boards 44 hoar s 15. harbour boards 25, lan I boards 10 -50. E location boards 12, school committees 789 -810 Licens ng committees 384 j hospital” and chari able institutions, 51. Total number of local liodies, 1772. Taking nine mem tiers as the average nn her in the borough council-, c unty councils, road boards, and town district boar is, the total iu those hoa-ds voul 1 be 4293 ; and giving eight members to the whole of the bo tie- 1 have '-numerated, would bring tlie tota up to 14,376, of whom no fewer than 1920 are meinoers of licensing committees. And these <ln no 1 exhaust ihe list, but I think the figures I have given i lu.trate the absurdity of the system. Fancy all these bo ties with their chairmen, ihi ir seer-taries, tneir clerks, their en.i necre, their returning ■ fficers, and the rest of 'he offi -ial paraphernalia. I hink the House will be astonished at the outcome of th' So figures, especially those- in regard to the licensing Committees, for hev show that, whilst the e were in v ew Zealand, according to the census or 188,, only 1591 publicans, here were 384 Licensing Com m'ttees, each with five members, or in all 1920 memliers. That is to say that, there are 329 more persons engaged in dealing ant. law to the publicans than there a-e publicans. Would it not. asked the sp-aaer, be better that all these separate functions should ' e brought toget e —that three or four counties should be wel led together with a destroying local autonomy at all, and given larger powers. Mr Scohie Mackenzie, than whom he did not know a more estimable memner. or one more eserving the eonfi .ence of the general pnb lie mile a big mistake in dealing with this subject. He seemed to forge in his remarks that the larger the f nc'ions . iven to local bodies the more dkely was it that men of larger abdi y Would bn hmn ht for ward to undertake them. Give a man a parish road to make a d he cared nothing a'-out it, but give him a railway to make and he would rise to the occasion. He was j sure that if tin- powers were .enlaced, men , of greater ability would undertake the woik and they were badly wanted. Th re was such a thing as putting an elephant to draw a wheelbarrow—(laughter)—but it was a very stupid proceeding. Mr Mackenzie by his speech, seeme I surprised that elephants dil not come forward to draw the wheelbarrows of the County Councils. Why there was nothing to tempt men of abi ity to remain such bodies. It was nossihle that he G-v-rnin nt would make a battle-gro ni of this local -internment - usiness, but if t‘ev id th y wool i come to grief. The proposal he should make to the government was tliatthev should ring forward the bill, ask the House to read it a second time, and give a pi -due that they would carry it n - further until the people ha-1 expressed an opinion upon it. A mistake was made in passi g the Aboiiion Act in 1876, without comm.ring the people He had seen this eve- since, and although the outcome had no been so la-oen-able as some people would have them believe, yet any other such change—local government, for instance, shoul 1 be before die public for at least 12 mouths. For this reas ,n any local government measure should receive his support as far as the second reading, but if i were pushed lo a third reading he should vote against it.

PROTECTION. The Government mig t possibly choose as tln-ir Kittle-ground Protection, and there the peo le would find him (the speaker) stern and uncompromising, The only thing he saw in Protection was the fostering of few people at the expense of many In his experience Protection had never been open ly avowed. It used to be “ taxation for revenue pm poses,” and now they called it “ encouraging local industries.” There were really only three in ustries in this noun;rv— the p slor d the agricultural, and the mining.— (A Voice: *' ml the political”) That gentl man who spoke had pro baMy not I'em very successful in that indnstryl'o mself. A number of men hj d conic to his Colony, and they sail, “Nov hat we are here, yon must put taxes up >n the whole people to enable us to make a living.” Ho said to such as these th u th • country did not want them—and he won'd support a measure for char ering a ship to tuen hack again. Of all the fo lies a young con i try could ho guilty of, eno uraging imlus tries foreign to itself that imposed tax s upon its really naiivo industries was the worst. Ho i tended directly ho reached Wclling on to do the very 01 posite to what he was told the Gnveinm nt meant to do. He was told they intended raising the duties on tea and sugar, and he should move that the duty on these, and also on coffee, choco ate, etc , should be abo ished. so that the wot king man -h mid have a free breakfast-table. —(Applause). He ha taken some trouble to asco tain how we stood in the past, and no found oy the census of 1881 that there we-e upwards of 54, 000 people engaged in the agricultural ami pastoral in lustries, 14.000 in miffing and 64,000 in other industrial pursuits, exclusive of manufactures Those en .-aged in manufactures were about 18,000 only, and by every tax placed upon impmts for their benefit the community was so much out of pocket. T ey had to pay to encourage ] manufactures which could not maintain j themselves. The distance of this place from Other centres should alone be quite enough protection He found also that we had absolutely within 101)0 as many domestic servants as persons engaged ill manufactures, and this was a most important industry which should be paid greater attention to. RECIPROCITY. AiTiftbor "lad” we had been hearing about

lately was reciprocity. Victoria, after for many years encouraging what she was pleased to call native, hut what were really exotic manufactures hid come to the conclusion that she would like to enlarge her mark-1. She had induced Tasmania to fail in with her scheme (although he did not believe the Tasmanian Parliament would agree to the arrangement), and some of our commercial lunatics in Dunedin were now crying to induce a* to do the |s,ime. What Victoria wanted was to force off her locally manufactured goods—to arrange so that we should be compelled by force of prices to receive Victorian goods. It meant our con tinuin > to tax English and American goods, an just letting in these of Victoria only free, He did not know if this wild scheme had snppo ters in the present Government; he did not think so ; but if it were attempted they would flu-1 in him a (most determined opponent. He would have no reciprocity of that one sided kind so long as he could raise a voice against it As to Protection, if people accepte-i it, they would find it the hardest yoke they ever put upon their necks.

TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY. He did not see why dwellers in the country should be subordinated, to those in town. This was an evil- that had been growing rapidly.' The towns for years had forced their nostrums down the throat of the country. Kvery measure that came before the Honse had regard not to the benefit of the people, but to the interest of the dwellers in towns. Fortunately they had now got a country party dete> mined to resist the tyranny of the dwellers in town. (Applause.)

A FREE BREAKFAST TABLE. He had sai 1 that he would propose a- free breakfast table. This was first proposed by Mr Ballance, who so far fell in with that view as to sug.-ost that a halfpenny should be taken off. sugar an twopence off tea. Tne speaker had told him this wafoolish, beoa ise it did not make itself felt. It it had been all taken off, the people would have felt the benefit; but he ventured to s y that those who gained most by this partial measure (which showed the half heartednes- of the man) were those wh - bought large quantises. He meant to go for the whole duty off sugar first, and he also wanted it off tea. He should be met no doubt with t.he argument that it was desi- able to encourage the growth of beetroot. Did his hearers ever taste beetroot «ugai ? He had been so nnlnckv. It had m ide his tea washy, spoiled his punch, soil ed hs t mpe-, and ma le him generally unhappy—(A Voice ; I don’t agree with you). Beetroot sugar did not agree witn the speaker anvhow. And why, he should like to know, were the whole population to pay in order to enable a few farmers in the North Island togow beetroot? If an industry did noi pay wi- hj ut special taxation, then abolish it. At Home they grew beetroot largely, and made it into white spirit, from which other spiri-s were manufactured, and that would be the end of beetroot culture here.

.sir julius vogel’s influence. It is a most extraordinary thing that Mr Ballanco, who in 1878 proposed the removal of these lulies. should now be the men to c -me forward and propose their .reintroduo , tion. The speaker could not always account for these changes in men’s minds ; ut he did know this, that Sir Julius Vogel possess i a mesmeric influence, and he could see its effect upon the m ml of Mr Stout and Mr Bdlance ai'd all the others who came m contact with aim. They seemed to lo e th dr self-possession, and he was sura that if Mr . Ba!lance were _ removed from Sir Juli s Vogel’s influence for 24 hours only he would see his folly. The spo.ker never got within that sphere, he could asu' e them, and as long as they returned him he should retain his own mind, and submit to no dtfler judgment than that of his constituents. As an illustration of what he had been remarking, they knew how strongly Mr Stout, with pen and ton one, hat) always supported the nations alisation of the land. No sooner, however had he got into office than he told the Auckland people that the question was “ outside the sphere of practical politics ” This was the "iff rence between “in ’ and “ out.” Mr Ballaue, who in 1878 talked a'out a free breakfast table, now proposed a duty, How could he at the t me say that there ex.ste i such a thing as a Liberal parly. The sneaker, for one, had for ye -ra striven to brill; about some cohesion of tbe indefinite particles of what should be the Liberal party, but he had always found it impossi de. The tint thing they said if asked what their plank was “ T - put out the Government.” That seemed the first, lust, and only idank in the platform of the Liberal party in New Zo land —(Laughter) It wa° no use talking about a Liberal party while that was the state of affairs. Another matter to be touched upon was THE LAND LAWS. He asked those present whether they could, in their weakest anil most stupid moments, prepare anytiring more absurd than ou present land legislation? They could not olame tho land bo mis and their offic -rs—it was the construction of the laws, which were incongruous and stupid enough to drive every man out of New Zealand. He, above all, resented tho eondirion of residence upon deferred-payment land, which was oropped altogether in the conditions of p- rpetual leasing. The speaker had seen one of tho best farmers m the South Island turned off his land, which was all under enl ivation, because hj« lived on the other side of the road Was that the way to encourage cultivation? Ha did not want to praise bi-oseif, but as the father of tho system he wishel to go hack to the regulations drafted by him in 18ti3. and called the Agricultural Leases Regulations. A man under them was allowed to take up a piece of land on condition that he should cult.i vale, fence, etc., certain por ions within certain periods No man should he allowed any p vrt of the public estate except for use, but residence wa- of no use.

PASTORAL LANDS. A gross wron.; lial also been done by the manner in which pastoral lands bivl been nealt with. What he wanted was a classi fioati.m of the lands. Let them give a tenant of pastoral la d exactly the same privileges as were given to a tenant of agricultural land under the perpetual leasing system. (live him a lease for 14 years, with valuation for all improvements at the end of the term if ha did not purchase. We should have doude the number of sheep on the land, because it would pay men to mahe improvements. At present the pastoral tenant had no security whatever ho might b- kicked out to-morrow; and was it to ne expected that be was going to improve the land and extermina e rabbits ? No ; his business was simply to get as much out of the lan ■ as he could. If the speakers suggestion were followed they w uld soon see a difference in the standing of the pastoral tenant, He did not know if sue)'a measure was to be brought in next session ; our. be knew the P einier was much in favour of it, and if Ii > did not brine it in the speaker would. (Applause). Then, as regarded agricultural land, it was surveyed and put j up for a certain purpose. He would advocate letting the man survey it for h'mself, and then come and ask for it under the system that suited him best. intentions tor the session. As to his intentions, per se he would support the present Government, hut ho must not be mis understood. He meant that he

would vote agninst a direct mojion of want of confidence,, but lie would stand no nonsense. He would have no- ’’fade” and ''Oil'll Sea bubbles or‘Protective fallacies thrust down his throa*. If the Government were content with carrying on the business of the country, they would not, be disturbed j no man in the House would move against them. It was felt that the late Government had been to long in power.' They wanted no more Aitkinson at present. His constituents need not bo surpise 1 if tb«v found him voting to keep the Government in office, or voting against certain measures even though the G .vemment said they should resign in consequence. There had been too much bouncing in tin past, and it woulc have no effect upon him for the future. EHE RAILWAY ROUTE. Referring to the two routes via Crookston and Moa Plat, proposed for the extension of the Tap mui-Swift Creek railway. Mr Pyke said that if his constituents were divided into two sections upon the subject he was not going to be judge between ; but he would caution them if they did not take what they could get they might get nothing at all. L t the engineer take the line where he liked, and for heaven’s sake let them abstain from fighting among themselves.

CONCLUSION, In conclusion, the speaker repeated that it was doubtful whether the Government did or did not want to force a dissolution uring the session. In his opinion they did, but he did not think they would gain much over it. It was for his constituents either to trust th u ir representative or to turn him out, and if his conduct did not please them let them turn him out at the next election. He had made mistakes but he had striven honestly, and he expected them to deal decently with him on an emergency.—(Loud applause). He was in their hands now, ready to stand any amount of “heckling.”

QUESTIONS. In answer to questions put by Captain Mackenzie ami others, Mr Fyke sai l that he would have the boundaries of local government districts fixed by the people them selves, and no arranged in Wellington. As to the money expended upon defence, the Government, in his opinion, had done quite right, although he himself was not inclined to trust so much to shore guns, and woul have preferred a few swift cruisers. He thouiht the expenditure was justified in view of a possible Russian war which he, for his parr, was very sorry did not come off.—(Applause). Ho felt strongly thd great mis'akes had been made in immigra tion. Wo had scoured the cutters and .introduced unde bre > and underfed men and women to lower tbc status of our community, and now we said we should have no one out at all. Wo wanted good men wire would not hang about the towns for work, ami the Government had done nothing more reprehensible than their conduct in stopping nominaled innnigration. After a number of other questions had been answered upon various snbj cts, MrW. Sinclair moved, and Captain Mae k nzie seconded--“That this meeting thanks Mr Fyke for his address, and has every confidence in him as the representative for the • listriot.”

This was carried unadmouMy ; and Mr Fyke having acknowledged the vote the proceedings terminated.