POLITICAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1672, 31 March 1886, Page 4

POLITICAL NEWS.

M^foiß • ATKINSON . : AT • JAXJCKt ' *.- -C-:." ,:}■ land. •;■•';•• '■■•>: A^OBDlAli AND ENTHUSIASTIC _ j l ' Deception:; ■ f (UNlTtii) PRBSS ASSttjrATIQIT.) • i\-A..<4 Auckland, Thursday. ■ IffaWr Atkinson ad'diressed the cjfizbns of^ucftlWnd; to^rifgh't 1 at • jfctte ' Bpyal, There was acfowde'flattebdarie'e. 6ff-"Maj"or Atkinson inafcine ; bi»". ttppeararß>e: ; ort ; the platf orai, -hfe was' warmly »b-^ cowed wi tK cheers. w.bJch%jßre rene w/cd ,■. . onMiis commencing Im addrtsii .In tke' ccSVf.BB ; o^ J hiß -^eeiih lie criticised .the pife^o&e ! d"borr6Wing. policy '■'^ 6f;*,tlve 80-' Vernment}' arid ••condeinh^ strongly a gr^norrowing schejaeJaFl.ikely^ole^d. ,t4feryafriiriancial I : two''*nilli»bß a' yearT T aa^plr6|f6"Be3^p[<r J fe'e' expen-ded^ -at ! th« eWcI; of 'the 2 f oat t^J^k f, eV^tii will) exlra' ''taxatjon, there • Sy o^ild ' ' i&iv ■■defictt «of £120,Q00 a year. The: 'ii&w departnre.af tl'ns'grawd Bclieme ! >Vaß' otdy tn cover tip and; Mncfiqn, \ tho "fix-.'. ' ' pftidit«re of tfirue and a half thilHonsorii the East Coast THib railwi^ .Wa^ald^havi^o i>e niade some ila.y^bo.t;, ■-•- only m due time. .AiioWahd afn'd ; -We}i : ; lington had to wait| 16 years before • thii*e : wa« any atteoiDt made to connactf thferh^and it would .take'foiir-Ayeara; tO::rio'it/' ! -6reymbuthjGhrißtcfharch,,iirid Hfckitika'Avould waitior connection till it coujd^be^reas^flabl^ 'djohe^ajid^ith^; . ;' •STTmposifigTlie'tiufdecs upon the people. IIVWaB iibtf air that the colony should be triken by the throat because '» member ttthorMinistry • tepTwrented "ft ""Canter-' bgi^iconßtit»i,en,oy. *nd- be told; that the : East and West Coaet. rail way must' bo .constructed, lie would resist to the ut- : terrnost the .proposal to make 5 per cent i tho nominal 1 contribution per head to the Castoms re vehuejan^would resist atty inincrease of t»xation except tqmeet necessary works and the colony's engagements. . At.the same time it was unWise to put. o^. the", borrowing ' absolutely.: They! efionld, ai buaineg's mcii, take, ptock . and ■ bpfi'pwja' lunited a.nipunt,.and;jfb, qn.to coippleto their existing railways to aipay-. . ing point. They should complete the ' Nortb ; I«land : Trtiiik railway,; .exjenti^ another Section ftf the Nqrthern; raijwa^ pasl, HelehßVsllr, ' complete .the Gtago Centrkl to . a'-'payin^. point,".' arid some. oViifr 'lines. "He apprQ»e(l.rif Sir George ! G^fy'B land settlrin'ent aclWino .being tfjpdv tf-ntatrvifjy f,in^certain • ;dißtrictS; favourably situated, m. order to test.i.the;. sincerity of people to set tie upon the Isyrd. • if;th?;pnblip/\yoTk».: were.rushfd tijrO!)gh.q»ickly, there. miMtjbe a stuideri epdjng. What that, i>ica?it ; m. the colonythey cauld alli»n''ifirtJflH: Heicoiidomned Mr Balla-nce*B:'native piilicy,-and v saw •ay host ofdifficnltifis m th« future tnrough it.;»;i The Maoris should [-have, nniple iatdH 'reserved' 'for them|' and the. rest ■lipriid be bought'.bythe Crowfi, ari<l;the' ; deht ! fun'd<?d, : 8o tliat;the cWild'

enjoy the interest, bot he : would riev«r VeXparty to creating a class of Maori ]iih'd'6rdß' in ;th~e Nfrth ."Island. ..fiieco'n-^ clridfid by •expr^sirrS'- liig 'grnlittfde' faf/ c l ( sjJlil^ a i!LNatl v« M.i riister, v f^r 1 r BPtTftig" rujht the "colon ißtS^jfs "her- hadr himself, m th«'eye« of the ?rnpirp iy»J. of. the world, 'agnioßt the slanders' which, ~h ji(i, , beeh ; eireu I »t,e<J ,iu r . the., so-ca jleii '' History of thn Cb'lnnr.' 1 Alajor Atkinson concluded his address amidst cheers. A? lar^e number v;of question* w^re then pnt and answered. A cordial vote of, thinks wits accorded toMajo/ -AtKnmnfiirhh address. A hortti|fl fl ara.fltidTnent^was rejeptc,d amidst. itlsseß, sonr^ two or three hands only Ning held up