SIR J. G. WARD'S TOUR.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13271, 23 November 1911, Page 2

SIR J. G. WARD'S TOUR.

Rotorua, Nov. 22.

The Premier will deliver a political address here on Friday evening, and wi'.l speak at Te Aroha on Saturday.

MR MASSEY'S NORTHERN TOUR

Palmerston North, Nov. 22. Mr. Massey addressed a very large meeting in the Opera House this evening, hundreds being turned away. He was received with cheers and spoke for over two hours, covering similar ground to his former speeches. A number of questions were subsequently answered, the meeting closing just before 11 p.m. In reply to a question as to why he had waited till after Mr. T. E. Taylor was dead to clear nim of the aspersions h& had cast upon him, Mr. Massey said Mr. Taylor was dead, and he would say nothing but good of the dead. He denounced the asker of the question as a cur, and said he had shaken hands with Mr. Taylor at Ohristchurch, and they had said that they could settle their differences in a five minutes' talk. He denounced the correspondent who asked this question in that

If No-license were carried, wiiat >would you do without your bottle: of MarteH's Brandy? Docitors order it.

day's "Manawatu Daily Times," and said that he was making a collection of such things all over the Dominion to hand to his solicitorSj as there was such a thing as criminal libel. At the close of the meeting a vote of thanks and trust that lVxr. Massoy should scure a substantial majority to enable him to take up tho Government was tarried; an amendment of thanks on.y being cried down and lost. The meeting closed just before 11 o'clock with prolonged cheering for Mr. Massey.