Political News.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 153, 10 June 1884, Page 2

Political News.

Mr. Gannon will address the electors at Patutahi to-night, and at Ormond on Friday, the 13th instant. Mr. S. Locke also addresses the electors at Patutahi to-morrow night. In his open-air speech yesterday, Mr. Bees said he had more brains than Mr. Gannon and all his followers put together. A contemporary from which we clip the following evidently does not think so, and says :—Mr. W. L. Rees’ meeting at Makarakalast week was a most amusing affair. Throughout his address, he was subjected to all sorts of interruptions till the row culminatad in a fight in the body of the hall, and this being more interesting than Mr. Pecs' speech, the meeting was adjourned, presumably to see fair play between the combatants. Says the Daily Telegraph The electors of the East Coast are treating the three candidates for their represention in a most impartial manner, and it is impossible to foretell the result of the election. At Ormond the other day Mr. Rees received a unanimous vote of confidence, and a day or two afterwards a similar expression of opinion was accorded to Mr. Locke.

[Per Press Association.] Wellington, June 10. There is but little change in the Premier’s health. It has now been decided that Mr. M. W. Green will second the Address in Reply in the House of Representatives. It is not yet settled who will propose and second the Address in the Legislative Council. Dunedin, June 10.

Mr. J. C. Brown, M.H.R. for Tuapeka, addressed his constituents at Lawrence on Saturday night, and received a unanimous vote of confidence. He propounded a scheme to rid the Colony of Centralism, suggesting a formation of three states, one, with a capital at Dunedin or Christchurch, the other (including a portion of the Middle Island) with a capital at Wellington, and third with a capital at Auckland.