MASTERTON ELECTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2659, 28 July 1887, Page 2

MASTERTON ELECTION.

IR,1 R , it ' ogS( a(ldreBSB( l the electors of of thi! Mastcituij district at the Kinuouui Hall last evening (Wednesday), MiWf). Mackay occupied the chair, there T?i.n« about a hundred persons prosent. . ° The Bpeakor in his opening remarks, expressed great pleasure at the manner in which Ins candidature.foul been received and the support accorded to him, ]] o did not intend to devote any portion of his address to disparage tho other candidates, as hi; did not think it fair to speak against them, unks it .was to put rirhfc any misstatements thai might have been made. Tho address was a lepetitiou in the main of tho one delivered in the rheiitrc Royal last weuk, Ho reiterated his previous statement that tho Governmentwaa turned out-of Office on the land question and not ou the Tariff proposals, and contended that Sir Hoboryj btoub and Mr Ballauce had <<iven colony the most liberal Und laws they yet had. He said that as soon as the policy of protection was adopted in Keff Zealand, manufacturers, and workmen would flock to the country from all parts of the world, in tho. same way as a new gold field would be rushed, and the credit of the Colony would be so onhancej that the capitalists would say "you can have as many millions as you like, fflfcg 9 Know you will soon he in a posi(jw>p.iy it back." Retrenchment he consitSred •would bo tmuTCussiity witha protective policy, as there would bo employment for all. He would hft'vo a progressive Land Tax, With a minimum of two hundred acres, and

make it so that the land would bo kept iii.limited areas. He would make M\v catjonna free as the air, and, would lika to seo the future Governor of the Colony of Colonial creation, so that the country should not be governed by foreign plenipotentiaries with their mad ideas of fr.rtifyiiif/ the coasts with bid worn out armaments. In conclusion, ho drow a hopeful picturo of the future of the -Colony,-with -its uplondid asticol.

[ tural, pastoral, and mineral resources, which only required population to,«j , develop Uv«ra. He had, up to tho last?* ! moment,.tried to persuade Mr MeCardlo to stand for tho fllnstcrton' Pisliicf, and thon ho (tho hnd beei) pressed iuto the contest, and iutondod to carry it through with clean hands. The address was. frequently applauded. In answer to Mr Carman, he said he had no four that England-would retaliate by putting a duty od New-Zealand wool, if a proteel ive duty was adopted. If any European country thought it wouldjSA mure advantageous to them they wosjjr put on a duty, but the reason England did not do so was because sho wanted the raw material for her manufactures, ■ and sho would not retaliate, while the other ports of the world wero open to ' New Zealand produce. (Applause),) Mr Eenall made a short explanatory speech in favor of Protection, but as ho intended to take advantage of Mr Beetham's meetiug, ho said he would defer his arguments till thou, In answer to Mr Renal], the candidate, aaid he would never support- anything in tho shape of retrenchment in the presonfc Education system, atjiunsfc tho interests of the children of New Zealand. (Cheers). ' A vote .of thanks to the speaker-was proposed by Mr D. Carman, and seconded f W"\ .'■ Mutrie ' and a vofce °f thanks V to the cliair concluded tho meeting. *