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LONDON DATES TO MARCH 13. RE-ELECTION OF MITCHELL. CORN MARKET SHAKY. MESSRS. J. C. IMTHURN & CO.,S FAILURE [Per Press Agency.]

London, March 13. John Mitchell waa re-elected with an overwhelming majority for Tipperaiy. \ Arrived—' IJalcione/ from New Zealand. At the wool Siles pri^fes contine firm. y i he corn market ia shnky. " *

Paris, March 13. Buffet has declared the policy of the new Ministry ts bo conservative without viiidictivone&s.

London. Marcji 13. An intorview takes placo between tlieSuverei^.is of Aubtriaand Italy in Arnil.

March 16. The firm of JohixC, ImTimrn and Co. (.'), merchants, East ludu Avenue, Lwuleiiluill street, Have suspended jmymont, Tljo lowobl iixol lialiilities are set down ai two miilioas sterlin"

, " ' (JPtrm tlie Y. Bfc yaws. /• GraKjimstowfy Friday. Sir George Grey, K.C.ft/«ved fiere at 3.45, per the * Hauraß/ whicb^ief^uoklafid >?harfc at lda.m. v;.'*v <;.'* «. He waft acoo%panied by P. Difcnan, JSsq., I^.C. ; J. Sbeehan, Eac^Brov^Argfcretary ? Mr & M. Reed\T)r W. ||$ a^elTflihw? gentlemen. ( ec«mecte<i < with the Auckland and Thames' district. The weather was favorable during the passage down. At Grahamstown wharf Sir George was received by William Eowe, Esq*, Messrs Carpenter, M.P.C., Bagnall, M.P.C., and' a considerable number of the mining and business people of fhe Thames, who went on board to welcome Sir George Grey upon his first public visit^to the Thames mining, district. .A t the toll bar a large concourse of persons had assembled, but there was no demonstration. The town had been placarded from an^ early hour with announcements that Sir George Grey would address the electors, so that his visit was expected. AJI necessary preparations had been made for the public meeting. Sir George Grey accompanied by the gentlemen from\ Auckland, and those who met him at the Thames, proceeded to the Pacific Hotel, where he '"iwlk. remain during his stay in the district. It beiiifc within working hours, the aspect of Hie town was atTfirst somewhat dull, but as the evening advanced the miners, workmen, and business people, assembled in considerable numbers in the various thoroughfares. Amongsb those in attendance at the Grahamstown wharf, were the chairmen and members of the several highway boards, and education committees. At a quarter past seven o'clock the Theatre Royal was crowded to excess, punctually at the moment announced. At the commencement of the proceedings, 7.30, Sir George Grey entered the theatre, and was received with cheers. It was at first proposed that Mr Rowe should take the chair, but there were loud cries for the " Mayor." The question -flfts settled by being put and carried that the Mayer should preside. (Cheers.) The Mayor, in opening the proceedings, said he had great pleasure in introducing so distinguished a personage as> Sir George Grey. He regretted 1 thafc any difference of opinion should have arisen as to the presidency of the meeting; but the question of the evening was not who took the chair, but the hearing of the address of Sir George Grey. (Cheers) He had known Sir George Grey as a statesman for 27 years. Sir George Grey was distinguished in many ways, as an upright man and an able politician. (Cheers.) Sir George Grey, in coming forward, was received with loud.ajid prolonged cheering. He said he appeared ti&fore them that evening, not as a party ta a contest; not to attack enemies ; but to gain all as friSntls., (Cheers.) A vacancy in the office of Superintendent had occurred, owing to a most lamentable circumstance. He was there in consequence of the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late John Williamson, Esq., a man, who, for 30 years had been foremost in advocating and working out the good of the people. (Cheers.) He could not pretend to do moie or better than, Mr Williamson had clone. He could not say he had any pledge to make. He was not brought forward by contention or division, but he could saythathe was thereto endeavour to do good as far as it was in his power to do it. He could not say whether the powei-s of the Governor would be delegated to him or not. He could not say that he would be in a position to offer any pledge, or any result of his own labour. The men whom he was addressing were an industrial afmy, conquering the wilderness. They came for the relieving of the suffering country at horne — they came to found a new nation. He would say that those w^Ohcame to this colony in the early days had founded under circumstances of enormous difficulty- ( Cheers*) They had to leave behind t^hefr^ll the comforts of life. They had passed a life of tjafcour in New Zealand, and left behind them a generation r«ady to carry on the work. (Cheers.) He had passed over this district 25 years ago ; so long ago that he had forgotten the date. He had then to carry his own, food. He had to sleep in the open air, tor there was no roof to cover him. He remembered Mr Williamson coining to him in 1867, and describing the lamentable state of Anckland, which was then in a depressed state, and might be worse. He came to this district a second time, recognising the foresight of Mr Williamson, and used his influence with the natives to get this place open as a goldfieldHe was now amongst the men who were getting the wealth ont of the grouud. He recognised the vast amount of work that had been done on this goldfield. He recognised in the men before him, the men who were carrying out the destiny of the country. He would occupy them but a few minutes in detailing what measures he considered would be desirable to a mining population. In the first place, there ought to be the means afforded to the mining population of settling on the lands in the immediate vicinity of their claims. (Cheers). He had shown them how the Thames was acquired, and would now consider their present condition, and the best means of giving new life to it. The first thing he would recommend was to open out to the miners a means of settling in the vicinity of their claims, leaving their wives and families on small farms, and being in a position to take advantage of new discoveries in the locality. He also looked upon the question in another form. There were two modes of procuring inhabitants for such a country as JSTew Zealand. One method was to obtain large sums of money and introduce the scum of foreign ports, who came and expelled more de- ' sirable and deserving inhabitants ; to introduce people accustomed. iiijoweptjbabits and coarser circumstances to v^fe^Zealan^ The effect of these classes would be to injure ]tjne colony, and rob the people taxed for Ijheir introduction, although it , ! might benefit shjjfcwners. \p. South Australia, when people were rtouired, th'^ squatters brought them out at their ow expense, which was right, and they never had tfe, audacity to ask him to tax the whole population tE^enrich tj^nselves. Again, it was unfair to tax them^bourers of tjiis colony to bring out incapable people, arid ' the money would be better expended in assisting to establish good settlers upon farms. (Cheers). The next question would be to follow out his design of twenty-five years ago — open up the country to the miners and others (cheers), and let the produce of the Waikato come into the ports. Why construct railways in particular localities ! What was it to him that the property of certain persons was benefitted by the vicinity of railways? Let those who gained by the railways pay for them. Let them make an equitable expenditure of the money devoted for the purpose, and not give such a small sum as £20,000 to Thames, and put an export duty on their gold to pay the interest on railroads in ether parts of the country. (Cheers.) ' The next subject was to let them have fair representation for the Thames. (Hear.) Why havo one member for 1 2,000 people, and in other places three members for one or two thousand people 1 The law saw that the representation should be in proportion to tho population. (Cheers. j He drew that clause himbf lf. (Laughter and cheers.) They must not imagine from what he had said that if he went to the Assembly he would nvike a move in the matter, because there were men there who had been fighting the question for years, and he would assist them. With regard to the views he had expressed, he bad read in the South-

as m^jM^f r ftrS%i«W^ tbey might <#11 him Kip Afc§pWinfct§j but tESy^stould find that antithW.noiionß indgfbt be the present generation, *%uld |aai& upon there being carried out. He tilled thlb fe stMjk i 0 their five members antiquated as thei idea adequate representation was. 'Se cime to*Knothet Question. He objected to a considerable amohnt of the taxation they paid, and no time should be lost in endeavouring to reI duce it. In what way was a mining settlement i more troublesome to the Government than any i other » " ReTaXM to 1 see. It *as a very orderly population, and their living together forced them to be civil to one another, and in spite of themselves a mildness and propriety of demeanour grew upon a mining population such as they seldom saw in other communities. (Qheers.) Why were they to be specially taxed? Why not devise a system which woSild exempt them from the gold export duty? A squatter paid no special duty on his wool- Let then have recourse to an- equitable system of taxation. That could be obtained by fair representation, and not till that was procured would they get justice in the matter of taxation, a3 it was human nature for one section to put taxation upon the shoulder? of other sections. As long as the great stockholders had possession of the Upper House, and virtually of the Lower House, if they thought those gentlemen would take up their burdens and put them upon their own shoulders they were much mistaken. (Cheers.) The question of the Thames foreshore Avas an important one. His impression was that the whole of: the foreshore and its advantages ought to be in the hands of the Thames people. If elected, he would endeavour to have such a settlement of the question made as would secure to the Thames people all the revenue arising from the Thames foreshore. He said thisf, n«t to gain theV votes, but because he had adopted similar views iikoSfosfc places. With regard to education, he hac^mllj&gcpressed himself on this question in hia address, miile in favor of a proJjKpjjystem of edi*ufl|^>-in a new country, he beKeveil \ntod just method of taxation. Sir George refe*Te<rSthV income tax in England of 3d in the pound ori the* je^rV income, \gs having fallen unjustly upon a certain SJaW^Clergyinen for instance, could hardly retain ™&k positions. In Auckland the education tax fell nntfcirly upon the poorer classes, and lightly upon the rich. The absentees as he pointed out in his address, were allowed to escape too easily. The Colonial taxation as well was not equitable, and those who were best able to pay were not touched at aIL An Elector: How would you propose- to raise the revenue. Sir George Grey : That was a large question. 3 here were hundreds of ways in which the thing could be done. It they put a duty on gold they could put a ditty on anything else. Wool would' be a good thing to tax. This placed him in an embarrassing position^ for if he went to the House ol Representatives-, the squatters would scowl at him. ( Laughter anavbßerß,) i A Voice : WBaf-Mnd of fccfocation would you give 1 , j Sir George Sfcye^xWhile i{ is of importance that all children shoul^be educated, so as not to it main savages, no set of meVhad a right to interfere with religious education. TfCheers) Therefore, let the State concern itself only with secular education. (Cheers .) Mr Otto asked whether in the event of the dissolution of provincialism, Sir George Grey would advocate the giving the revenue from auctioneers' licenses and publicans' licenses within the town, to the borough authorities. Sir Geovge Grey : The question was one more fit fbr a parliamentary representative than a candidate for the Superintendency, but answering the question generally he would give the largest - privilege to boroughs and towns. It was a question of detail which it was rather difficult to answer. It was said that the municipality lost funds by becoming a municipality, which fymds, it had before. If elected, Superintendent he would do everything in his power to put the municipality in the position it had held— the same, as to all kinds of public works in this district — harbor works, Ac, water supply, <fee. As to the Pumping Association, he would endeavor to cany out all the arrangements that had been entered into with them. He was greatly surprised at the progress which had been made at the Thames. He would do all he could for so important a districts whatever might be his position, whether they elected him Superintendent or not. He wou!4 do all in his' power make prospecting" tracks across^he hills. He was 'anxious, to make one smud Jtput upon him as little blafck as possible. He was callSl a " terrible , He must now remind flltem of the first part of his address He did not wanVto see a country where such work had been done by men like fyqse he saw pre^Qnt. He did not want to see such men, merely because a money-bag was shaken - before them, run after it like a thistle. ( Laughter and cheers.) There were things as great and greater than money. Th,e. man who left his children a good farm, need not h\ afraid of poverty coming upon those children. There was. such a tiling as liberty ; that was worth more than money, were things that money of itself could not give. ,In hia , earliest youth he had given much consideration- to the great mass of suffering in England. It had deeply affected hid., so much so that ne proposed in his early youth to explore remote countries with a view to populate and reclaim them. It was this consideration that led him into the line of life in which they had known him. When the occasion arrived that he could influence the future of such a country as this he framed a Constitution, based upon jbhe privileges of the English people wherever they were found. He proposed thafc its Governor should be nominated by the Queen, aud that there should be an elected Upper House. But was the Governor of the Colony nominated by the Queen \ No. He was nominate^ by the Secretary of State. The nomination in such a case was usually given for party purposes. There had been exercised- in this colony a great 'stretch of power. ' It .was competent^ to make four life Peers here. But what was the use of calling a man " honorable " if he l|fc th,e title when he went to Tasmania. He had n^osee- j tion to giv\ titles to those who had worked and earneCtfiem, \hen they revived an order of St Michael and SC George, which was formerly dispensed to the Maltese, and the one to whom it was offered, said, " When did ever I become a brigand V Let them give honors which will endure, and o-ive nobility to the wearer of them. Whereever they were seen the people of this country were as dear to the Queen as any other people. If the Queen were the fountain of honor, let honor be derived from her: It was puerile to say that anybody could *et the entry into society without the Secretary of State in England. It might be that a person "oin» lio>\to borrow money would be received witlTa clrt*\ amount ef attention. (Cheers and laughter.)' He objected to the mode in which the Governor, was appointed. He objected to a nominated UppcrVfrouse. He objected to the creation* of an lllfgitinVte aristocracy. He objected to the liberties of the" people being filched ajway piecemeal by encroachments of the kind which had become f.imilicir. He wanted them to leave lhe Constitution^ as it was. He asked for no alteration. He asked^ for the liberty of' the people being preserved as it was given to> tjjieta. . Let the man wfco • served any

ware at the mercy^J&H -«r M ™"* being: «nd knetf r§&^P^m e*^ a few money-leaders, ifthef^ent home to raise money. (Che&s.) Hq qj&*tf£ to the pre^nt ( raod« of »ppointtofcthe G<*tftnoisjfco the nominative system- for the Upi&r Hoiife, afuTto the iu^ence wilawfufly exercisfd over tWe House of Keptwfentafcve*. That one safeguard for the Utter being carried out wa& the existence of Provincial Gbreriykmts. The tew did not allow the General Government to abolish' Provincial Councils. They might alter tLp boundaries of the districts but could not touchOe Superintendent or Provincial Council. The Constitution Act said if you make legislative bodies, you cannot take away their legislative powers from them without their consent. If they did tjhat who would trust them 1 ' The instftutions wottld not he safe. If the country decided to abolish the provinces and i all the Provincial Governments, let a law to that | effect b» Constitutionally framed, and he would t obey it. {Sir George Grey regained his seat amid^'ioud and prolonged applause. "^ Mr Ci Speight moved : Thiat this meeting thanks $fc£reorge Grey for bis address and expresses its co*nfi«|nce in his' fitness* *nd ability to discharge the diUie\ of Superintendent of this province. MrSßagnal, Member of the Provincial Council, •brieny^be^onde<i' the- ■ motion, which, waa carried with atclaiQUtion. The Chairman, in conveying to Sat George the 1 resolution^ expressed aho the- thanks of the Thames , people for his, having first addressed a meeting at tha< 'I'hflTTllPS TtiS'e hearty cheers were given for Sir George, and a yote of fchanka to the chairman, concluded the proceedings*

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Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 445, 25 March 1875, Page 2

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LATEST CABLEGRAMS LONDON DATES TO MARCH 13. RE-ELECTION OF MITCHELL. CORN MARKET SHAKY. MESSRS. J. C. IMTHURN & CO.,S FAILURE [Per Press Agency.] Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 445, 25 March 1875, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS LONDON DATES TO MARCH 13. RE-ELECTION OF MITCHELL. CORN MARKET SHAKY. MESSRS. J. C. IMTHURN & CO.,S FAILURE [Per Press Agency.] Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 445, 25 March 1875, Page 2

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