THE PRIME MINISTER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10497, 7 December 1911, Page 5

THE PRIME MINISTER

MOVEMENTS IN THE SOUTH

(By Telegraph—Press A ssoc-iation.J-

.■ < The. Pireanfeeir. attempted, an engagement' to address, .the electors,, at Stewart JBitodv ; to-iriighty.' ; KuC Ihp tug- had to put back, as. had she continued she might not have* been, able to return- to the isiland. Sir Joseph Ward- addressed the intmates of the charitehte institutlioa at Lome. Farm ttiik, amd had a big meeting at Kenndngtt>n- tonight, whtare he. received a good .hearing, and was cheered. Hie- speech was' mos% r on familiar lincis.. In' contradicting the Reform Party's assertions- in a message from Wellington, p\ihl!ished in- certain- papers tbfe morning in- regard to the hoikl-. ing up of the mails, Sir Joseph Wardi chau-acted'ced this as a deliberate and infamous lie, and the work of one man. who wa&a't acting in) thle inltereets' of he's journal or of the people, in. answer to a question, Sir Joseph salid he wm going to have mv inquiry nvade .concerning the expeaidtfture of all public montey speint' in hfei e'lte-storaie, and if money was spent improperly it would have. to be refunded.. At the concilwsioni a vote of thanks and confidence was carried amid cheers, and the singing of "For He's a Jolly Good JeHow," and- two were handed to the Prime Minister.