MR SAMUEL AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8756, 19 March 1890, Page 2

MR SAMUEL AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

(Pub United Vukss Association.)

New Plymouth, March 18. Mr Samuel addressed his constituents last night. Ho announced that ho did not intend standing for re-election. .H e said that the Railway Commissioners were making the railways pay nt tho expense of the progress of settlement. He gave Dunediu credit for the success of the exhibition, which had clone a great deal of good, as it had attracted people troin outside to come and see tho fertility of the colony and Us great resources. Tho rea/ou why ho had opposed the Libel Bill was that a person might be put up at '• a hole-and-corner meeting » to vilify a personal enemy, which the papers could print without fear of the consequences He considered that persons who published libels should be responsible. There were some evil-disposed persons in the colony who would only be too glad to avail themselves o the provisions of the bill for facreasing the sale of their papers. Though he was opposed to excessive borrowing, ho thought ib absolutely necessary iv a new country. It was disgraceful to see the unfinished works about the colony rotting for want of money to complete them so as to inaka them reproduc«,Ho , lUf. t"""c<l a partly-made live at Greymouth aad the Otago Central line, which are at present useless. We cannot make ths colony progress or prosper without borrowing. He referred to the waste of time last sc-jsion over the Ward-Christie aud Fisher-Atkinson correspondence. Nothing had ever happened more degrading to representative institutions than tho opposition of the city members to tho Represent?tlo"B'll- He considered that private schools should bo subsidised, and would like to see tomo of the old fashioned private grammar schools re-established. The administration of justice was very inefficient in the lower courts on the west coast sf tho South Island, aud be considered that the timo had come for the amalgamation of the Native Land Courts with the bupreme Court. The present Parliament might bo prolonged, he thought, till early next year, aud, r.fter the census was taken, let a dissolution take place, when the colony would be properly represented. He objected to two sessions in one year.

Mr Sumuel received an nnanimous voto of confidence.