SPEECH BY CAPT.RUSSELL. [BY TELEGRAPGH,— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1895, Page 4

SPEECH BY CAPT.RUSSELL. [BY TELEGRAPGH,— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Waipawa, 7th June Captain Russell, M.H.R., addressed hiconstituents here last night. He ridioule a statement by the Minister for Lands tha the 59,000 people by which the populatio) had inoreased were Bons of old settlers wbc had returned. Even if. it waa so, it waridioulons to anppoae that the debt per hearl of the population had been reduced by their advent, for the majority had no capital, and only competed with an already over-atooked labour market, having been attraoted by the Government statementa that surplus labour wonld be employed on the co-operative works. The demand from the Pomahaka and Cheviot settlers showed that the Government had paid too much for those estates. If tho settlers could not pay the rent the colony could not turn them off, and would have to bear the loss. Prosperity wonld only return to the oolony when oonfidence was restored, and from what he had seen in various parts of the colony he felt confident that a re-aotion against the Government had Bet in, and that at the next election Ministers would be defeated Captain Russell rooeived a unanimous vote of confidence.