WAIPUKURAU.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1034, 26 March 1869, Page 2

WAIPUKURAU.

MONSTER MEETING OP INLAND SETTLERS. : . . BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Thursday, March 25. A public meeting, as advertised in the Herald, took place here this afternoon. The attendance was. large and influential, and the utmost unanimity prevailed. The chair was occupied by Mr. Stokes, and the speakers were Messrs. Canning, Carlyon, Ormond, T. P. Russell, A'Deane, Gollan, Nairn, and Philip Russell. The first resolution, moved by Mr. Canning and secondecroy Mr. Carlyon, was as follows : — This meeting has heard with alarm and i regret that ministers have withdrawn from ! Mr. M'Lean the General Government ! agency for the East Coast ; and, looking at the services Mr. M'Lean has rendered, to the influence he possesses over the East Coast and Taupo tribes ; and, further, to the confidence reposed in him by people of both races in this province and upon the East Coast — this meeting is of opinion that the withdrawal from Mr. M'Lean of the powers he has for so many years successfully exercised to the general benefit of the colony, is, at the present critical conjuncture, a great public calamity — is calculated to destroy confidence, and seriously to weaken the friendly relations with the East Coast, Hawke's Bay, and Taupo tribes, which Mr. M'Lean has laboured so successfully to develop© and maintain. . . The second resolution, moved by Mr. Ormond and seconded by Mr. J. P. Russell, was as follows: — That, in the opinion of this meeting, it i$ extremely desirable that an humble but urgent appeal should be made to His Excellency the Governor to forthwith convene the General Assembly for the despatch of public business, inasmuch as this meeting 1 considers that the present critical; position of the Colony — the serious additional burdens necessarily entailed by protracted warfare — together with the spread of the rebellion under the conduct of affairs by the present ministry, — are matters of serious import, requiring that the advice and assistance of the Legislature should be taken without further delay. And that a memorial embracing such opinion should be transmitted to His Excellency so soon as it may be corroborated by the signatures of the settlers of this province. The third resolution was moved by Mr. Gollan and seconded by Mr. Nairn, viz.— That all practical means should be adopted of communicating with other provinces, with the view of obtaining their co-opera-tion in this matter.