The Speaker of the Lower House.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 287, 10 June 1896, Page 3

The Speaker of the Lower House.

(Per^reas^Aßaociation.) Avcxljmv, Jnne 8. Bir Maurice O'Eourke, Speaker of House of Representative!, addressed a lame meeting of his Manukau constitu•Bleat On»hunga on Saturday night. He dealt, amorij? bthar matterß, with the attitude of lh» liegi»l»tive Council in nbakinc changes in certain of the money Bills recently brought in by the Government, and said he regarded several of the alteratibna toiisted upon by the Couocil ao ao 9um^htnpntii^atWfinviliegeß of the representatives of the people which would not have been tolerated by the British '. House of Commons. The Government ebould have resisted these encroachments more atrehuojisly than they had done. Ifertiapa Mintaten wort aetioft 0» the principle of giving [Councillors rope enough in order to see whether 'hey would not proceed to dig their own graves. It would b« for him to make a statement at the end of the session as to whether he would agiin be a candidate (or Onehunga. A vote of thanks and confidence , was unanimously carried. Mr F. Lawry., M.H.R., van elector of Manukau, moved a re■otation requesting Sir G. M. O'Rorke to be nominated as a candidate for One hunga at: the next general election, and ib« meeting pledging itself to use every effort to secure the election. The motion was seconded by Mrs Tates, and carried.