FURTHER ELECTORAL ITEMS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1727, 2 September 1879, Page 2

FURTHER ELECTORAL ITEMS.

[By Teleguaph.! The following were crowded out of yesterday’s issue : NAPIER, August 31. At the nomination for Clive yesterday, Mr Smith, of Waipukurau, who proposed Mr Sheehan, reviewed Mr Ormond’s conduct since his entry into public life. Mr Ormond did not then reply, owing to pressure of time, but in his speech at Clive in the evening he replied to the charges, and made a bitter attack on Mr Smith about Mr Sheehan. He said that, if he were returned, he would never rest until he had seen laid on the table a full account of the expenditure of the Native Department, when, if half they heard were true, the Ministry would be hurled from office by an indignant House. His advocacy of Chinese labor he excused by saying that when the Brogdens proposed to introduce Chinese he was strongly opposed to it, but was afraid that the terms of the contract would allow them to do it without the consent of the Government. He, therefore, wrote to the different Superintendents of provinces, asking their opinion on the matter* in the hope that the coun;ry would loudly protest against the proposal. This hope was fulfilled. With reference to public works expenditure, he quoted articles in the “ Hawkes Bay Herald ” analysing the figures supplied in the Public Works Statement, and showing that the expenditure on railways in the North Island had exceeded the expenditure in the South, taking into account population, area of land settled, and paying character of the lines already constructed. He went into figures relating to Hawkes Bay, and while admitting the correctness of the “Herald’s ” calculations, provided Mr Macandrew’s figure* were correct, he stigmatised the Public Works Statement as false and misleading, as no such amounts as were then stated had been expended in the North Island. Mr Bussell, at a meeting at the Theatre Royal, referring to the Electoral Bill, said Mr Reynolds, Commissioner of Customs in 1875, introduced a Bill conferring manhood suffrage with a twelve months’ residential clause. That Bill was rejected by a majority of eight, and among those who voted against it were Sir G. Grey, Messrs Sheehan, Macandrew, Thomson, Ballance, Fitzherbert, and J. O. Brown. Among those who voted for it were Messrs Atkinson, Richardson, Geo. McLean, and Bowen. NELSON, August 30. Mr Pitt addressed the electors last night. He expressed himself as liberal, hut must follow some 'other leader than Sir G Grey, and could never support any Ministry of which either Sir G. Grey or Mr Macandrew was a member, on account of their administration of public works. He met with an enthusiastic reception, and a vote of thanks was carried amid great cheering. The chair was taken by the Rev. J. O. Andrew. NEW PLYMOUTH, August 30. Major Atkinson addressed the electors at New Plymouth on Thursday night, and obtained a unanimous vote of confidence. He denounced the Land Tax, and derided Sir GGrey’s assumption of being a heaven-born financier. He stated that the fault of Sir G. Grey’s Liberal policy not being carried out rested with himself; that the charge of the Opposition reducing the loan of four millions to two and a half was groundless. He blamed them for the Native difficulty, and said Sir G. Grey supposed himself a better diplomatist than Rewi, but he was deceived. Bewi was in accord with the King, and was working for the King party. Ho advocated an income and property tax, the re-occupaticn of thethe plains, making roads, resumption of immigration, and establishment of law on the West Coast. OTAKI, August 30. Mr Walter Johnston held a meeting of electors last night. Ho spoke strongly against the Grey Government. He admitted having opposed secular education in 1871, but thinks now it is the only system the Government can adopt, although not in favor it. A vote of thanks was passed. WELLINGTON, August 30. A deputation of the Liberal Association waited on Mr Greenfield, asking him to retire in favor of Mr Hutchison. He formally declined. Mr Carter retires from the Wairarapa contest. DUNEDIN, August 30. Sir George Grey addressed a meeting this evening in the Princess Theatre. The place was crowded to suffocation. The platform was occupied by a large number of Sir George’s admirers, and especially by Messrs O. S. Reeves and Thomas Bracken, the Grey candidates, and Mr B. Stout. The meeting was a very orderly one. Sir George’s speech contained little that has not already been said by him at Christchurch and Palmerston. Sir George Grey kept scrupulously clear of any allusion to the railway head-quarters questien, and was equally careful not to mention a word about the railway to the West Coast. On Saturday evening Mr Macandrew addressed the Port Chalmers electors at great length and received a vote of confidence.