THE OPPOSITION.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12256, 1 October 1902, Page 2

THE OPPOSITION.

PRESENTATIONS TO MEMBERS. [press association.] Wellington, Tuesday. _ At a meeting of the Opposition this afternoon Mr Museoy, on behalf of tho party, made presentations to Messrs pirani and Hutcheson, who are retiring from active po'itics. Mr Pirani received a gold watoh and Mr Hutcheson a silver fish and dessert service. Mr Maisey said the Opposition desired to express their appreciation of the good work those two gentlemen had done while they had been members of the House. They had earned a colonial reputation as keen, able, and earnest politicians and honest and straightforward men, which those who had been associated with them knew they thoroughly deserved. Mr Pirani, in reply, said he had only done what he deemed to be hie duty, and he was very pleased to know that his actions had the approval of those with whom he was aisooiated and of those who had sent him there. No one felt more than he did the pang of leaving politics, bat he trusted in the near future ho would ba able to return again to that field. Ale Hutcheson said that if at any other time he oonld seek the suffrages of his fallow-citizens, when he was not in a position to know hope or fear, he believed his destiny would bring him back into politics. Sit William Russell expressed the hope that they were only temporarily parting with Messrs PDani and Hutcheson. Tho health of the retiring members was drunk iu bumpers. Sic William Russell handed to Mr James Allen a handsome silver flower vase as a present from the Opposition party to Miss Allen on tho eve of her marriage.