PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

Evening Star, Issue 16662, 19 February 1918, Page 7

PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

The R-qv. Howard Elliott held a largelyattended meeting in the Theatre Royal, Napior, last night. A strong force of police was present, and the meeting, admission to which was by ticket,;_was a one. A branch of tho Protestant Political Association was formed. A big crowd waited outside the theatre, but Mr Elliott left unnoticed by a side entrance. Tho only disturbance was that a chemicai "bomb" was broken in tho crowd outside. The Public Questions Committee of the Wellington Presbytery yesterday passed a resolution expressing profound svmpathy with the Rev. T. Miller and the "Rev. A. Stockwil] in tho indignity and bodily injury to which they have been subjected at the hands of a brutal mob, alarm and indignation at the manifest intention of certain bigots to if they can, by insensate violence not only freedom of speech, but even attendance at public meeting? held to claim for Protestants their full political rights, satisfaction that- the Minister of Justice has promised to do his utmost to discover and bring to punishment the perpetrators of the Feilding outrage, and a determination to uphold in ali legitimnte ways the right of Protestant people to assemble in public meetings fo'. tho vindication of their political liberties and the exposure of the wiles by which those liberties are endangered.