MR. BRYCE AT WAVERLEY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 1 June 1885, Page 3

MR. BRYCE AT WAVERLEY.

. [Per- Press AkooiATioN/j f>*■ > •;i:l Patea, 'Sunday, Mr, f . Bryoe addressed electors at WaVeriey, last night. Ho said the present Government secured their present' position by stating they, would .make closures! in. the Treasury,''!but ! the ~dis' closUres to ; l».-Vma3e'''had'ifU.i|Mmine^d I into moonshine. v .jEor security, they had introduced^as,policy bjjiis;the. District j Railway Bill, East and-West Coast Rilway Bill, Weetport and; Greymouth Harbour Bills,',alj of )vhich f direct; intere'stj of members,tori rrtembers' ,irie6d's, : and' stating they'should stand or fall as. a whole?l He -stigmatised the'action as a hugo piece of log-rolling which had never been equalled : inthe : colony Before, and he' severely, criticised the r District Railways portions of' the East and West Coast Railway Bill. He also attacked the Governments finance, quoting.' Mr Thomson, to sbow., that the authority for borrow ing £1,000,'000 for the North Island Trunk Railway, £1,500,000 for the loan of 1884, the loan to the extent of accrued sinking fund and to the.extent of this; year's sinking fund (£244,000), had been taken tliis sessionalso; fdr. indirect!: borrowing for Westpo.rt £500,000. guarantee debentures £150,000, and Otago Harboui- £750,000,— bringing the total borrowing authorised up; jffj:. ,'£9,436,808. He poiilted out that the sinking fund was being paid by the issuing of debentures to raise money'for the consolidated fund, out of which the Mnking fund was paid,'arid the debenture .added .to . the debt. of the colony, I b'tit ''strongly/ /.obje^d^tp 1 ?, the colony's land being raised'to'T'fictitious value, as inducing an unsound condition. He denounced the scheme of local governments, do far as known,ms - worse; than;the; present form, and ridiculed tlie proposed way of securing vlocal bodies substantialendowments. He censured the commencement of the Main Trunk Railway- untiKth'e satisfactory title to. the land had been obtained, He did not'attach much importance to tho present native irritation if firmly dealt with, but held' that it was necessary to enforce, the, law against the natives the same as' Europeans;' He could not feel as hopeful as Major Atkinson about the future prosperity of the colony unless Other measures, than those ofjhe present Government were applied. 'He said the present, Government had politically lived on exciting expectations in every vyay possible, and would die politically of the disappointed hopes? it jihad created. :,An 'unanimqu§iyote' : ;of confidence was passed,