MR LEVESTAM AT THE PORT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 132, 4 June 1881, Page 2

MR LEVESTAM AT THE PORT.

Mr Letestam: addreesad a fairly attended meeting at the Fort Hall last night (Mr Eowell in the chair). The substance of hit address was the same as givea at tha Provincial Hall. He said that people teemed to misunderstand what he had laid about protection. He explained that there was a wide difference between protective »n<3 prohibitiTe duties. He considered that oar ad valorem duties were protective, because they added over 16 per centum on the price of the goods imported under them. People here could manufacture the same olais of artiolt at the same price, but take away the now existing protective duty, and our artizani would have to be idle. He explained further that what he understood by protection in the jam manufacture, was not to increase the duty upon the imported article, but to allow the colonial jam manufacturer to have his sugar duty frit. Mr Levestam explained alio that the system of giving land free could bo oarried out by setting aside blooks of land in districts, Bay, fifty miles from any oentre of population, and not to give a Grown grant uniil the land had been occupied, say, five yaars. A number of questions were then aaked by Mr Robert Burn, who evidently had a great desire to fix Mr Lo vest am. The latter, however, replied without the slightest hesitation to every question to the entire satifaotion of the meeting, and to the oonfusion of the questioner. After a question about the Licensing Bill had been answered, Mr J. Harley moved that a hearty vote of thanks be accorded to Mr Levestam for his able address and that bo is a fit and proper person to represent this constituency in Parliament. The resolution being carried, the meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. — Communicated,