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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3336, 1 September 1879, Page 2

NAPIER.

Last night. , At the nomination for Clivo yesterday Mees.'s Ormond and Sheelinn were proposed. The show of hands resulted in thirty for Ormond, and twenty-seven for Sheehan. The nomination of Mr Sheehau was a great surprise to m»ny, as tho first intimation that he would be brought forward appeared in that morning's Herald. Mr Smith, of Waipukurttu, who proposed Mr Sheehan, reviewed Mr Ormond's conduct since his entry into public life. Mr Ormond did not then reply, owing to the pressure of time, but in his speech at Clive in the evening, ho replied tp the charges, and made an extraordinary bitter attack on Smith* About Mr Sheehan he was quiet, but said that if he was returned, he would never rest until he had seen laid on the table a full account of the expenditure of the Native Department, when if halt he had heard were true, the Ministry would! be hurled from office by an indignant House. His advocacy of Chinese labor he excused .by saying that when Mr Brogden proposed to introduce Chines* he was strongly opposed to it, but was afraid that the terms of contract would allow them to do it without the consent of Government. He therefore wrote to differ- ! ent Superintendents of the provinces asking their opinion on the hope that the country would loudly, protest; against the proposal. This hope was fulfilled. With reference to the Fublie Works' expenditure he quoted articles in the Hawke's Bay Herald analysing the figures supplied in Public Works' Statement, showing that the expenditure on Railways in the North Island had exceeded the expenditure in the South, taking into account the populations, area of land settled, and pay* ing character of the lines already constructed. He went into the figures relating to Hawke's Bay, and while admitting the correctness of the Herald's calculations, provided Mr Macandrew's figures were correct, he stigmatised the Public Works Statement as false and misleading, as no such amounts as were there stated had been expended in the North Island.

Mr Russell, at a meeting in the Theatre Boyal, referring to the Electoral Bill, said Mr Reynolds, then Commissioner of Customs, in 1875, introduced a bill conferring manhood suffrage with a twelve months residential clause. That bill was rejected by a majority of 8. Among those who voted against it were Sir Geo. Grey, Mr Sheehan, Mr Macandrew, Mr Thomson, Mr Ballance, and Sir W. Fitzherbert. Among those who roted for it were Major Atkinson, Mr Richardson, Mr G. McLean, and Mr Bowen.

Mr Ormond, at dire, referred to the same measure, bul said he had roted against it because it conferred manhood suffrage, pure and simple, without any residential qualification.

Mr Rees, at a meeting of the Liberal Association in the Theatre Royal, referred to the same subject, saying Sir G. Grey and the other members of the Ministry roted against it because it was not sufficiently Liberal. ,

Mr Ormond, at his meeting, received a vote of confidence by a small minority, no amendment being moved. The majority did not vote.