THE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2031, 14 July 1885, Page 2

THE LIBERAL ASSOCIATION.

io mi i minis. Sin, T attended the meeting comencd .'t the Hamilton Hall ■•» Satni.li> ihhiim,, winch was ost> nsibl} i ailed fm the p\upo-i of st.v ting a Liheial Association in llann' tun, .md 1 was much uiteiestod in tlie pi<« ecednigs. T listened ca-iofully t<> the iddie*sls in ide by the gentlemen who took. th< tiouMe to come up fiom Auckland to a-^i-t the ino\enient, and .it the close of the speeches wished to join the pioposed ib-n nation. You m.iy judge of inystirpn-e when I saw the sell-constituted "uh.iiiman, pin teni " of the Hamilton Lihei.d Association, I)r Beale, mdely snatch away the sheet of note papei nil which the signa ture of .Mr \\ illi.un Wood was wntten, and teal it oil, at the same tune lefttsing to let sexeial gentlemen sign wlio wislied to join. Tins is tine liilieialisin with a \engenncc. On being leuonstiated with by Mr 15. 1). L. Duff us, (one of the Auckland usitois), the self-constituted ''chairman, pro tein, said it would " ne\ei do to let the enemy into the camp."' Mi I )u(f us' reply was to the effect that if the affair was not good enough to stand a few of the enemy it was not woith miming, and he aKo said that if the enemy Lot too -hong it would be \ei\ easy foi the ntheis to secede and lenethe enemy to them-i ht -. now, Su, it must be appaicnt to all think nig men that, the self constituted " chan man pio tern," is not at all anxious to form a Liberal Association in Hamilton, but to stait a, society foi puicly electu>neeimg pin , poses and nothing eKe, and thoiefoie he intends to keep out the, enemy -the enemy being .iryone who may be at all opposed to tic self-eonstituti d"" chan mmpw tern," in politic Now, I take it^-that Libeial Associations <uo intended^to educate the members as fai far as jiossihlc in Political Reform, and to induce them to study and take an inteiest in theimpoitant questions effecting the good of mankind in geueial and the management of the public piopeity (i.e. the land) in paiticulai. It a man is to bo objected to because he \oted against the self-constituted " chaiiman pi o tern's," side at th" list elect'o i goodness help t'.e Hamilton Libeial AsMiciatinii. I tuistthat the incmbeis will tike the matter into their own hands and not leave things to a in m who sunpl> desiies to make political toolsof thos>' w noni he piefcsses to lead in the paths of hue Libeialism, and >o be able at election times to pose as one possessing considoiable influence, ■when, as a in ittei of fact, he is actuated by pincly pdbonal motnes \\l)ilst pietending to be influenced by pmc I'atuotisin. IjinriiM, Hamilton, 13 .luly, 1.^").

At the inquest 011 the body of Alice Biiiiiaby, who committed suicide l>y taking " lough on 1,1 th," a vcidiet v.is letnniuil that deceased coinmittcd suicide w bile in a state of tempoiaiy insanity. The juiy added a lidcr to the effect that they were of opinion that deceased had been deceived by Igoe, whose conduct t)warJ& her had caused the state of mind which led to the msli act. I^oe is the restaurant keeper on w hose premises the deed was committed. TitEKR ate 138,065 Masonic lodges in the world with a niembeiship of 1U()O,.">48. Mr John Kno\ will hold his usual >ale at the Hamilton Auction Mait on Satmday next. Mr Jas. ODea, architect, imites tenders foi the erection of a villa ie-«idence foi Mi F. W. Browning, Avoca Estate, Tauwh*r«,