WAKANUI ELECTORATE.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2489, 29 March 1882, Page 3

WAKANUI ELECTORATE.

ME SAUNDEES AT WAKANUI. » aJ2? Monday evening Mr Alfred Saunders ad--3 2S about ei S"ty electors in the Wakanui soiioolhouws. Mr James Brown occupied the chair, l me candidate recapitulated a number o£ theargu- , merits previously treated by him at Ashburton and Knaaia supplementing those by sketching briefly ino political course of past events in New Zealand, ™„ ? j° n J? !y deprecating class legislation. He ad- ' 7° catea the principle of the extension of polling hours until eight in the evening. Ho urged th-it • fair George Grey had failed, not as a public man, > but as an Executive officer. Sir George had failed : to carry his proposed scheme of Liberal measures, p ana had failed as a public financier, but ho was now in his proper place as an ablo critic on the proceedings of tho Government of the day. i let bir George was a danger to the State, , because the Liberal party were afraid that oy turning out the present Government, they should open the door of office to such incapable iiiinuciers as Sir George Grey, Mr Macandrew and Mr bnoehan. In reply to Mr Geo. St. Hill, of Ashburton, Mr Saunders said he agreed that it was u.ost desirable there should bo additional polling places appointed in Wakanui and other districts, instancing how ho had himself lost a previous election through the non-appointment of a polling place in a, district which would probably have otherwise recorded fifty votes in his favor. He said he thought it a national calamity that Mr Wallauco had not been elected. Mr Saunders Jk nouueed tho Crown and Native Lands Eating Bill , as calculated to aggrandise tho North Islam. ' am J particularly Tarauaki, at tho expense of the' k " es ■, ne colony. He considered the Gaming- k u< * Lotteries Act needed some amendment. He , won ' a n °t i'un counter to a candidate's religions or Oi ' e H irreligious opinions by insisting on a form of previous to his admission to the House, or by reftK in ? nim t,IG °l>tion of making an affirmation —Mr G. *V Ij oadley proposed, and Mr H. T. AVinter seconde/ 1 ' a Tote of thanks and confidence. Mr St. Hill Proposed, and Mr Welsh seconded, an amendment proposing a vote of thanks only. The amendment was .carried by twenty-three votes against fourteen. The meeting concluded | with a vote of thanks to the chairman.