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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 182, 8 July 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

Honor got double the number of troops here to spend the winter months he could have wholly agreed with him. His Honor had also said that he, (Mr. C.) had said “keep the immigrants out,” but he had never said so. His Honor had also said, that he (Mr. C.) had stigmatized Miss Rye : but he had done no such thing; he could not, he dared not do so. He complained of the unfair treatment ho was receiving from the Government, who continually twisted his words to a different meaning. He knew nothing of Miss Rye ; what ho had said was about her system, concerning which ho had quoted certain statements from the papers of the day ; papers printed where Miss Rye bad been. He (Mr. C.) had not spoken against the Taupo-road, and that his Honor well enough knew, but against other roads, which he (Mr. C.) had specified. And he altogether denied the charge made by his Honor, that “he could not view progress with any approbation” ! Strange, to hear such a thing now, after so many long, and weary years working in various ways for that object—for a real, material, lasting kind of progress, not a flash, evanescent, and seeming one. The member for Porangahau had repeatedly spoken of the “ immense dangers,” but had never named one. He (Mr. C.) believed them to be mere ghosts, apparitions, bugbears, of their own conjuring. Some folks believed in such things, and were afraid to walk in the dark ; he neither believed in them, nor was afraid to walk in the dark. The member for Porangahau had stated as a reason why the Loan had not been referred to in the address, that the Government intended to bring down a Bill for the appropriation of the Loan, and therefore the Loan was not in the Address ! He (Mr. C.) thought that that was the very reason why it should have been there. As to the taunt of the member for Porangahau, of his (Mr. C.’s) quoting from a “ scurrilous newspaper,” he should remember, that the extracts read were not merely from one paper, and that some of them were portions of speeches just publicly made by hon. members of the Provincial Council of a neighboring Province now in Session. His severe remarks, together with those of his Honor as to Ins (Mr. C’s.) having never done anything in the matter of the Wellington JDebt, astonished him,, and would not bear examination, were not worthy of a serious refutation. He had always aided him to the utmost. When the member for Porangahau spoke of how much he did, or tried to do, while at the Session of the General Assembly, held at Wellington in 1862, and of how very little he (Mr. C.) did on that occasion, surely he forgot that he (Mr. O.) was only at Wellington for about 3 weeks of that long session of 3 months! and very nearly got censured for so quickly returning] without leave. He (Mr. C.) had also been charged by that member with merely seeking “ political capital.” Row there was not a political man in the ■whole colony who had ever done less than he had,' towards securing political capital, or acting in any way selfishly throughout his whole political career —his enemies were obliged to allow him this. In conclusion, he would again state as his deliberate opinion, that had his Honor, with his knowledge of the Province, and of the natives, chosen better advisers, Provincial matters would have been in a much better state than they now arc. The Council then adjourned.