SIR JOHN HALL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 2

SIR JOHN HALL.

ADDRESS TO HiS CONSTITUENTS.

on Thursday evenM:<~ \ vni-n tVi f' was mainly a 80vere ot ~ on thia (.-iovornmeut He eaid that tha J're- | mier'a speeches re the Le K i s lativ 0 Council, and theirendeavourfcoset class aeahiHr eh« were unworthy of his position, tu'd a cause lof distrust both in and out, of tho colony. iTheeurpluefor 189192 WM owii K °to "he Atkineonian tinance, and io tho property I tax being loft in operation last year. Ye credit won due to the lat o (Jove.-n.aent Of J !i-b session thero wa, little ev«rt*iac6. rhe tax on improvements he vondemnod a, mpoli. c and un iim , and aid that n tho Financial Statement it was oven proposed to make improvement, nay the graduated tax. Mr BaHenCfid argnment that lamo Impro«VSeond nflbrd it, he declared to !oo the morality of a highwayman One I amendment of tho electoral law hurt boon mcriticed by the Government [Delating on I tho residential qualification beincr the'onlv i one. lie argued strongly for representation of minorities, objectors to which were, he raid, nob Liberals, but Tories clinging to a monopoly of power. The progress of the woman a auflrage question had been satisfactory, and he w-a confident it would be law before tac present Parliament expired. Jim U-.ost important question before tho jMlony was tho attack on the Legislative touncil. It had nob resisted , tho will of the peo-.le only of the Premier, which on tho freehold question was not tho will of tho ! people. Tho duty of the second (ftnmber was to -.nve tho people an opportunity for considering and deciding Kuch quest j onß . Ho aid not consider Ministers had a rii'ht to ho consulted about the selection of Oovornore. The llovornor, to be imiwrbiel, should owe nothing to any political party in the colony. He would vote for the con- i timmnce of the right of freehold. Lease- i holders would themselves demand it