MR O'REILLY AT ASHBURTON.
[FROM OWS COBBBSSOITDBHT.J ABHBURION, November 20.
On Saturday evening Mr F. P. O'Beilly, the fourth candidate for the Wakanui constituency, addressed a crowded meeting in Town Hall, and received a patient hearing. There was no chairman, owing, as Mr O'Beilly alleged, to the Mayor's absence from Aehburton, nor was any vote tendered at the oonelusion of the address. Mr O'Beilly promises a detailed expression of his politioal views at a future date. Mr O'Beilly having made reference to Mr Hughes, who gave evidence in the recent cage Ivess v O'Beilly, Mr Hughes stepped on the platform and deprecated Mr O'Reilly's candidature as a sham, adding that no man had a right to turn the privileges conferred by the Legislature on eleotors into ridicule. Mr Hughes was loudly cheered. In reply to Mr Thomas Williams, of Tinwald, Mr O'Reilly said it was a deliberate and malicious lie if any one accused him (O'Beilly) of receiving £50 to stand, and so split up Mr Ivess' votes.
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Press, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5056, 21 November 1881, Page 4
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