POLITICAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2064, 23 June 1896, Page 3

POLITICAL.

The N.Z. Times soye that it is practically eeltled that ex Judge W. "B. Edwards, of ie to "receive the vacant Judge., ship. Minirters state" that the appointment is not settled yet. but will probably be announced before Tuesday.

There was a very large crowd at DuneJglin railway station .on Saturday: night on the. arrival of the Hod. J. Q. War 4 from the North. Cheers were raised as the

train steamed in, and an addieeß of wel-

come and;,eympathy was presented by the Otigo of Knight? of Labour;

Mr Ward repHed from the carriage, thankJing them* Hβ also dealt with the banking legislation .contending thet if it had cot been passed in 1894, ninely-nine out of every hundred merchants would have been ruined. Ytt tbeee were the people «*who bad now turned upon him As Mr -and Mrs Ward drove away in a cab

amidst cheering, there irae a uarrow •escape fioin an owing to ehunt-

ing going, (vn at Rattby ii<ee». The f tbfepex-TreaßUTer's jad - mirern «b-> get the - "hoteea dutef the dab .which they draffered to the Grand Hotel, where Mr spoke briefly -to tVio orowd. : : ThrVe choers for Mr and Mrs, Ward eloppd the proceedings.