THE PENINSULA ELECTION

Press, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5407, 25 January 1883, Page 2

THE PENINSULA ELECTION

fpBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.] DUNEDIN, January 24. At the official declaration of the Peninsula poll to-day, Bishop Moran, after saying that he had, in coming out, been enabled to protest in an emphatic and solemn way against the injustice done to the Catholics in the matter of education, went on to say that he also had another object in view. It was subsidiary, but for all that it was an object. His experience had taught him that one of the most active and deadly enemies to the claims of the Catholics for justice had been the party one of the candidates represented, and it struck him tbat it might be in his power, by a little adroit management, to contribute very largely to their defeat, and he waa very happy to say that in this he had been successful. [Applause.] That party had been ignominionsly put to flight. He did not know that he bad anything more to say about the election except this: the Peninsula electors might suppose they had inflicted a grievous deft—t on him. If such were the case, they were nnder a mistake. He never hoped to be at the head of the poll, nor to occupy a high place in it. He intended, as a candidate, to do simply what he had told them already, aud he had succeeded in doing that. The result of the poll made no difference whatever in him, and no difference in his attitude towards the question. He would persevere in his agitation, and | the only difference they would find wonld be that he would be more vigorous and more energetic than ever. [Applause.] The injustice done to Catholics was so gross and the tyranny so great that he wouldpersevere and raise his voice in season and out of season; in the Press and out of the Press; on the public platform, and in every manner possible against this gross and grievous injustice, and wonld publish to the whole world that the citizenß of New Zealand refused to give those coming from the old country that amount of justice and | equality which they enjoyed in their old homes. [Loud applause.'] Iv conclusion, I his Lordship said:— " Gentlemen, —I have just one more sentence, and it will be only one. I say it because 1" think I ought to say it; because there are certain things I ought to rebuke, and that sentence is this —that in the knowledge of business and the affairs of the world: in them—nagement of its affairs and the choice of select language and elegant epithets, and in eloquence, the representative you have elected stands facie priaeeps, head and shoulders above all other men, and I have no doubt whatever, gentlemen, that in theHouse he will represent you truly and to your heart's content." Mr Larnach also spoke. Mr Donnelly was hot present.