THE WELLINGTON ELECTION

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 162, 11 July 1899, Page 5

THE WELLINGTON ELECTION

ADDRESS BY MR HUTCHESQIT. "J

(By Telegraph—Press Aaso<!4atton.J);]

WELLINGTON, Monday; ! The bye-election '» campaign opened to-night, when: Mr £T_hnJ Hutcheson addressed a packed audience in the Opera House. His address wa_ Wholly hostile to the present! Government. Taken on the whole- '. he had a fair hearing, although ati times there were rowdy interruption, and two qr three men had to be: ejected. Mr Hutcheson said he was altogether opposed to the .system o£ party government, and was in favour; of principle-v not idolatotry',' :-' and. would, for the present, support; tha Left Wing if returned to the ,Ho__e, At the close of the. meeting the! foX lowing "resolution -was declared '. ear-< ried amidst cheers, "That this! meeting has confidence in Mr ___tch_so_i A as .a repxesenrtative of the people, and pledges itself to- do its titmost to secure his return to Parliament- • as a token of its beliefthat,;t_"j*,ougl_ his manly conduct and hisi'-refusal to sacrifice principle to party, he Immaterially promoted purity of admin-* ' ii-tration, combined with true liberal principles." No amendment was proposed. In reply to a question, Mr Hutcheson said he had been: true to the parties he 'had been elected to vsupport, namely,, the jjeopil- teul principles.: . - ' ,