THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1866.

West Coast Times, Issue 251, 12 July 1866, Page 2

THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1866.

Mr MooßHousisleft Greymouth yesterday by the Airedale for Wellington. His first duty in the General Assembly will be to declare his election of Westland as the^ district for which he will sit. His next, to bring under the attention of the Assembly the various important matters connected with the interests of Westland that were recently pressed upon him by the several deputations. It will be remembered that Mr Rees promised to furnish him with the draft of a short bill to amend the municipal elective franchise, and a general statement of the requirements of the district calling for legislative action ; and that Mr Bright promised to supply him with a memorandum of tho electoral disqualifications under which the district labors. We trust these matters will not be lost sight of. Both memoranda should be immediately prepared, and a meeting of the' Reception Committee convened to endorse thenv that they may be transmitted to his Honor, as the expression of the general sentiment of the body chosen by the meeting of citizens >to be their mouthpiece. On Mr Prosser, the standing chairman of the committee, devolves the duty of convening it ; and we suggest to him that the opportunity of sending by the next steamer to Wellington ought not to be missed. There is great danger of the late political excitement being followed by a reaction, and it would be of infinite disadvantage to the district to give Mr Moorhouse any cause to think that the people so lately pressing their grievances upon him, were not i-i earnest — or that they had now ceased tobeso. He has promised to be faithful to us if we are faithful to ourselves. But he is just the kind of man to think us \mworthy of much effort on -our behalf, if we give him any reason to believe that we are satisfied with having had the opportunity of indulging iv a certain amount of tall talk. The Committee's complimentary labors are over. But they undertook to do something more, and it is necessary that they should do it promptly.