INYERCARGILL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3351, 4 January 1879, Page 3

INYERCARGILL.

[special.] Jan. 3. Mr Andrew Kinross, one of the candidates for Mataura in tho place of Mr W. Wood, addressed a meeting of electors to-night. Mr Crisp occupied tho chair. Mr Kinross, in the course of his address declared himself as most decidedly in favour of the Grey party on all general questions. He approved the deferred payment system regarding the Crown lands, and claimed credit for having suggested such a system in the Provincial Council when he was a member of that body. He would support a reduction in the price of deferred payment land, and an extension of time, so that at the end of three years dummies could not hand over their holdings to capitalists. He lauded the Hon. Robert Stout as Minister of Lands. Speaking on the franchise he advocated manhood suffrage, with one year's colonial and Bhort local residence. The numbers should, in his opinion, be eliminated from the backs of ballot papers. He believed in an elective Legislative Council, but tho power to elect should be vested in tho proper parties — not capitalists. He agreed with the principle of the land-tax, and thought it desirable that subsequently there should be an incometax. He would support the Ministry in any measures they might adopt to restrict Chinese immigration. At the conclusion of his speech a unanimous vote of confidence was adopted.