The Direct Veto Question.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 9, 11 July 1893, Page 2

The Direct Veto Question.

-♦ . A largely attended meeting of thos 6 interested in the above question wa 8 beld in Short's Ball yesterday even* ing. The Roy. G. Clement presided In opening the proceedings, the Chairman stated that tho object of the meeting was to pass resolutions in favour of the Direct Veto Bill, and to receive Mr Shearer's report, the delegate wbo attended the Convention just concluded in Wellington. The delegate referred to tbe remarks made at the public meeting by the chairman, Mr H. D. Bell, Mayor of Wellington, nnd also read an extract from a Wellington paper as follows: —Tbe Mayor stated that it had been alleged that during a previous campaign in Wellington, tbe Rev Mr Isitt bad made use of offensive language in reference to the late Proniier. He wished to say that speaking as one wbo had no connection with the Prohibition party, and as chairman of tbe meeting at wbicb the language was alleged to have been used, he was able to declare tbat be heard no word concormng the late Mr Ballance that any reasonable person could have thought was personally offensive. (Applause.) He desired to say this because a counter move was being made against tbe Prohibition Association, by representing Mr Isitt as a man who had mado a cowardly attack on the late Promier. The first resolution was submitted by Mr Shearer and was to the following effect "That this meeting emphatically endorses the Direct Veto Bill, as now before the House, aiid [ earnestly appeals to tlie Legislature to use every means to secure the passage of tho Bill through the House during the present session of Parliament." The resolution was seconded by Mr Johnson and carried unanimously. Mr J. C. Thompson then proposed, and Mr J. Gould seconded, That this meeting strongly urges the present Government to do justice to the women of New Zealand by giving them the franchise. ~4-(simeid. Tbe customary vote of thanks to tbe chairman closed the proceedings.