THE INDIGNATION MEETING.
TO THB EDITOR 07 THE PRESS. Sir, —I have just returned from the " indignation" meeting," profoundly disappointed. The speeches were poor and in bad .taste, that of Mr Mortimer Davie execrably bad. The Prohibitionists were to him " steeped to the lips " in lying. This, in a meeting whose majority was of that ilk, was provocative of indignation. ' The slander was received with laughter and a few cries of " Withdraw." When the resolution of confidence in Mr Gollius was put the voting was three to one against it, yet the Chairman (Mr Gapes) had the temerity to say, after a pause, " 1 declare the resolution carried." And to-morrow it will bo telegraphed all over New Zealand that : the resolution was carried. In such wise is history made. The resolution was carried by the sole authority of Mr Gapes' ipse dixit,- although rejected by at least three-fifths ot the meeting; speaking loosely,' I would say by three to one. So far as " indignation" was concerned the meeting was a big fiasco. —Yours, &c, IIIPAETIAIi.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9156, 13 July 1895, Page 10
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175THE INDIGNATION MEETING. Press, Volume LII, Issue 9156, 13 July 1895, Page 10
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