NAPIER.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3052, 26 November 1878, Page 2

NAPIER.

This day.

Mr Button addressed a meeting of electors last night in the Theatre Royal. The building was crowded in every part. Mr Buchanan had advertised in the morning's Herald calling " Greyites to the front," and a noisy meeting was expected. When Mr Sutton proposed that Mr Kennedy take the chair, Mr Buchanan came forward, and after referring to his advertisement, said that the meeting was not an ordinary one, but would be a test of feeling" in the. district. Therefore lie wanted an impartial Chairman, and he proposed as an amendment to Mr Sutton's proposition that Mr McDougall, a working man, take the chair. A great uproar ensued, the calls for Mr Kennedy being very general. At length, to settle the matter, Mr Buchanan put it to a show of hands, when only a few were held up for McDougall, and quite a forest of hands for Kennedy. Then Mr Sutton reverted to the work of the session, attacking tht

Ministry on many points, but more particularly about the Electoral Bill being abandoned, and about the Maori franchise. When he had concluded, arid had answered some questions, Mr Rees was called, and he began to make a speech, but was continually interrupted with noises of all kinds. He persisted in speaking, and then the people rose up to go away, but first somebody in the body of the theatre moved a vote of confidence in Mr Sutton. Enthusiastic cheers were given for Sutton, and the chairman left the chair. Mr Buchanan moved McDougall into the chair amidst great uproar, but the lights were put out end the meeting ended.