Our Member.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 174, 4 July 1884, Page 2

Our Member.

MR. LOCKE AT WAIROA. [from our own correspondent.] Wairoa, July 4. Mr. Locke arrived here yesterday, and addressed the electors in Mayo’s Hall the same night. Though short notice was given, nearly 100 electors were present. He thanked the Wairoa electors for assisting to place him as their representative in the House. As he anticipated, the Ministry had gone out, and there was no one in the Opposition able to form a Government, therefore he with others had to fight the battle over again. He recapitulated his formerly expressed opinion on the leading questions, adding that he opposed free immigration and further unnecessary borrowing. He favored purely secular education and approved of a few clauses in Mr. Bryce’s Land Bill, but objected to certain provisions, as not giving holders of existing leases any security. A vote of confidence and thanks, coupled with a vote of thanks for getting the £lOO for the widow of Mr. Downes, returning officer, lost at the Mahia, was carried unanimously. The meeting broke up with three cheers for Mr. Locke. Mr. Locke left by the s.s. Wairoa to-day for Napier, cn route for Gisborne. A number of people on the wharf gave three hearty cheers as the steamer moved off.