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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 453, 23 August 1879, Page 3

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(Per Press Agency) 1 WELLINGTON. August 22. Good Templars, various Temperance Societies, and Protestant Alliance Friendly Societies, are interviewing the different, candidates as to their views on the Local Option and Education Pills, Izard got a vote of confidence at Ohariu Valley. A deputation of the City Council waited on MiU-amlrew to-day, with reference to obtaining work on the railway lor the unemployed. Macaudrcw sain tenders for first section would he advertised for immediately. The Mayor pointed out that t mk-io would require to bo advertised six weeks, and it would take the contractor Si.viral weeks to get the plant on the .ground ; he, therefore, suggested that work he Marled on line two or three miles from Pipilea Point, where men might be put on at day labor. Blackett said Government bad not finally decided on the line. Intimately, however, Maeam'trew promised the Mayor that within a week or ten days two or three hundred men would be set to work. GISBORNE. August 22. The eight natives arrested last week for rot »n forcible entry on lands leased by lai v yun Head’s estate, were comuiitted to Umw their trial at next silling Supreme Court. Mr Pees defended prisoners, and it came out in Court that Pees had advised the natives to take the action they did, ’to assert their rights to the land. Had natives not been prevented, they would have taken possession of several runs. Strong feeling prevails here against Repudiation parly, for exciting the minds of natives. DUNEDIN. August 22. The Dunedin Times denounces Stout for disengenuousness at the Garrison Hall meeting, and published a telegram from Whitaker, contradicting Stout’s assertion ■ re Thames Pail way. IMMENSE ATTRACTION ! ! 1 Tiiis Evening (Thursday), August 7th. POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT of the POPULAR PERFORMERS "Who are nightly attracting crowds to the Parliamentary Buildings. Programme : Overture—“ La Dissolution”—Company Quadrille —“ Los Rats”—Messrs Barff, Wakefield, OJJivor, and Hobbs Song (in character) —“ The Mountebank”—Sir G. Grey Lament—“ Farewell, farewell, my Gallant Grey”—Mi Rees Sony—“ Silent I Sit”—bon Mr Fisher Reading (encored) —“ The Great Lone Bill” —Sir G. Grey Chorus —“ Let the Bill Pass”—Com ■ puny Song—Rewi’s Message”—Mr Rolleston Chorus —“ Tell ns the old, old Story”— Supporters of Sir G. Grey Stump Oration—“ One man’s as good as another, and a groat deal better” —Sir G Grey Song—“ Pour out the P B. ” —Mr. Mantiers Recitation —“ The cold water cure”— Sir W Fox Scotch Patriotic Song —“ There’ll ne’er be peace till Jamie gangs bame”— Hon. Jas. Macaudrcw Shakesperean Reading— Scene from Hemy IV—Prince Hal strikes the Chief Justice and is committed for contempt—Mr. Barton (If encored the lion, gentlemen will substitute his celebrated Irish sketch, “ Donnybrook Fair,” as given with immence applause on the reporters’ table at the Arcade.) Old Pakeha Ballad—“ The Nut Brown Maids ” —Hon. J. Sheehan ■Song (loudly demanded) “ Resignation ” —Ministers Song—“ Go, then ! ‘ tis vain to hover —Sir Win. Fox Musical Recitation (with obligato accompaniment on his own trumpet) —“ Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man !”—Sir G. Grey Chorus —“ Home to our Mountains” —Company Highland fling (at Sir G. G.), very spirited—Hon. G. McLean To conclude with the Chorus—- “ When Shall Wo All Meet Again By Loading Members of the Company. [During the interval, one or two Hon. Members will amuse the spectators by some wonderful feats of Kite-flying.] First Fiddle ... Sir W. Fox, Fiddle ... Sir G. Grey. Corner Mon... Messrs Wakefield and Rees Mr Johnson ... Hon, G. M. O’Rorke. Now Scenes ! New Sentiments ! ! New Promises J ! ! And No Performances ! ! ! ! If sufficient encouragement offers, the popular farce of “ Patriotism” (adapted from the French of “L’ Autocrat” will be presented to the public for just what it is worth, lollowed by the screaming ■extravaganza of “ A Free Breakfast Table.” God Save the Queen*. [Wellington Posh]

The Grey cry is without exception the we- . nst ;I; a any p.rly could po* ■; ■ >ly > tin - piintry Witii jiisi now. T: y tic. .it li, ve done something i lerali-.o), ’ they might have done son: Jung witii Protection, they might hav.; . ?ie something with Education — they might have done something with communism ; but to go to the electors with nothing in the world hut Grey to offer them, is really too preposterous. Grey means land tax, Grey means low wages, Grey means depression, Grey means bankruptcy, Grey means unemployed, Grey means panics, Grey means Native war, Grey means jobbery and corruption, Grey means tyranny and personal Government, Grey means dismissal ol' old and faithful officers, Gioy means sinecures to parasites, Grey means elective Governors, Grey means mob meetings, Grey means aqanrrel witii the mother country, —Grey, in short, means everything that people arc either suffering from or living in dread of. Yet this unfortunate Ministry have nothing to say to the electors in face of an adverse majority of fourteen votes, and of that damning memorandum by the Governor, but only Grey, Grey, Grey! No wonder the Government party are depressed and sorrowful. No wonder they are begging and praying Sir George Grey to be a rational creature for once in his life, and to perform Hari Ivari, or go to Kawau, or do anything else ho likes except dissolve. At the first blush of the thing, they cheered and made a great noise and allowed a good deal of their Dutch courage to tiz over, because, no doubt, they though the Opposition would be cowed or broken up by the threat of dissolution. Now, though, they see that it is, moreover, exactly what the Opposition want, and exactly what they themselves do not want. This quiets them. It brings a beautiful calm over their lately too-jnbilant souls. It tranquilises them with the reflection that half of them will never be exposed again to the vicissitudes of political life. It draws them away from scenes of strife and excitement, to visions of domestic retirement and modest obscurity. Even to their leaders and to those of them who still have a name in the country, and a future before them, it holds out only the gloomiest prospects. It signifies a defeat in the country as crushing as, and much more lasting than that sustained in the House. It signifies, also, universal reprobation and contempt for that miserable shrinking from duty, which led them to plunge the country into a whirlpool of political disturbance at a moment when quiet was essential to the public welfare. Ami all to gratify the whim of one faithless, bad, perverse old man !