ELECTORAL.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 9499, 30 November 1899, Page 4

ELECTORAL.

THE PREMIER IN AUCKLAND. (Per Press Association,) AUCKLAND, Nov. 29..... The Premier addressed a packed meeting at the Opera House last njght, and waa well received. • w ■'f The following jm moved tfjr, Dr. seconded by Mr. S. h ' Clarke, &id carried, unanimously: the' citizens of •; in , meeting assembled, thank the Right Hon. the Premier for his able and eloquent addressthis evening, and tfrfcir unabated confidence in the Liberal .Government under his leadership, and they trust . thecountry : will' return" an overwhelming majority of Liberals at the forthcoming general elections." The Premier received deputations to-day before leaving for the South. A number of persons interested in local industries desired his views on federation aa affecting New,; Zealand industries. | . be, (jrawn .on-the Question of ' federation \ farlff,!Still after ,tHe eldptions. j j^iciiardßon,. ' prphijbitioß . lefithe premier,, and handed hini irresolutions of the tem-l perance party, which .the Premier said I he would submit^, his colleagues. , In replyjto,'a questiop} whether;, he was in favor !of temperance teaching in schools, the Premier said,,he was not there to be catechised. He emphatically denied having received > J6OOO, fr()^|lie. ; Auckland .breiere;after the last general elections! He,'did . not receive a single penny.