MR BRYCE AT OHAUPO.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2751, 1 March 1890, Page 2

MR BRYCE AT OHAUPO.

There was a good attendance on Thursday evening in the Public Hall to hear Mr Bryce's address. Mr E. Lake presided. The address was similar in the main to that given at the various centres, although on this, the last occasion, _Mr Bryce opened uew ground. In referring to the land laws he said that that question had been the subject of a recent address in Auckland by Sir George Grey. He (Mr Bryce) was not going at large into the question of the land at the present time. It was a long matter and he hoped soon to do so in another place. He hoped that Sir George Grey had seen the error of his way and in his address was really apologising for his past action in these matters. It was under the land laws regulations of 1853, Sir George Grey's regulations, that the land grabbing and gndironing had taken place— and during his time of administration afterwards.—ln Mr Bryce said that there was one subject he had not referred to before, but he had been asked if he would be willing to represent them in the new Parliament. Ho could only say that fye had no claim upon the Electorate, but he felt after all their kindness and the full extension of confidence accorded him that the Electorate had a very great claim upon him and one which he should have the greatest pleasure in acknowledging. In fact, if the electors wished him to stand at the next election he was entirely at their service. The next session would, he thought, be of little importance, but the next Parliament would be fraught with the most important consequences to the colony. At the close of the address in-response to Mr H. Roche, Mr Bryce said he was not in favour of electing members to the Upper House. He thought it would not work, but lead to the deadlocks that it had produced in Victoria, neither was he in favour of an elected Governor. It would lead to a severance with the Mother Country. On the motion of Mr S. Steele, seconded by Mr A. Murray, a vote of thanks and confidence was carried. Mr Bryce proposed a vote to the chairman, which was carried by acclamation.