MR BEETHAM, AT CARTERTON.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume 7, Issue 637, 7 July 1877, Page 2

MR BEETHAM, AT CARTERTON.

Pursuant to announcement Mr Beetham, met the Carterton and Taratahi elec jon, in the Town Hall Carterton, on Thursday evening last. Although the fact of the election terminating in a walk over for Mr Beetham, had shewn the proceeding! of much that goes to enliven political meetings, yet some sixtv electors responded to the xnvitatiai issued by the successful candidate. On the motion of Mr T. Bennett, seconded by Mr T. Moore, Mr B. B. Armstrong, was voted to the chair. After the hlimihimi asking for a patient hearing for Mr Beetham, and for any other elector who might wish to address the meeting, the business commenced. Mr Beetham prefaced his remarks by saying that when he asked the electors to meet him he expected to address them as a candidate, bnt through the retirement oI Mr Fharazyn, he stood before then! as their member, and be might say he felt very proud of the confidence the constituency had reposed in him. Mr Beetham’s speech oceopied —— over an hour, daring which he touched upon most of the subjects that he thought would interest the meeting. His remarks about our late member Mr Andrew, his (Mr Bee* tham’s) opinion as to the working of the Counties Act, Taxation, Education, Immi. gration, Railways, and on deferred payments, were very similar to what we have reported, as having taken plaee at the meetings held by Mr Beetham at the different townships. The speech was listened to with marked attention throughout, and at the does of the address a unanimous vote of thanks and wbfidenoe was passed. In answer to questions put by various electors, Mr Beetham, said, he was in favor of the Counties Act, and he believed that with the amendments that would he during the next session it would be found suitable to the district He also believed that ultimately Wairarapa would Ul one county, instead of two, as at present fib wished this at first but finding the wm ui liTot of two ftnnntioi, Ht 3id not MU it. Uit were found necessary to have west taxation in the shape of an income and pro* perty tax, his idea was that up to £9OO, to comes should be free. It was £l6O to England, but as living waa much mors expensive iu this colony, he thought £9OO would be more suitable. As to whether the of County Council should be nlnnted by the people or the Council, Mr Beetham said that if the people properly exercised their tenet in electing the Councillors, he thought they might be safely trusted to elect their chairman.

f Mr B. Boys iddnmd the masting, nd ■aid that although very pleased at the result ' of thia present election, he hoped that suoh a terrain ition to what was expected would bo a fair contest, would not oeenr «pl» (Hear. ' hear, from Mr Beetham). Then were, Mr 1 Boys remarked, some ugly rumors alloat as i to the amount that was required to negotiate the Scandinavian block vote, and if it wen true they wen scarcely the people to U entrusted with the franehiee. Mr Boys remarks referring to the Upper House or nominee chamber, as he termed it, na keen. He contrasted the Upper House in New Zealand with the House of Peers in England, which wt an suppoeed to ape to the evident disadvantage of the former. Mr Beetham, in reply to Mr Boys, said that the impression that existed as to the mode of acquiring the Scandinavian vote was wrong. For his own part he could say that they had promised to rote for him without I receiving any consideration further than that I he had gone to Manrioeville to address tK»m Mr Beetham also desired to {dace oo record the fact that another false impression existed as to|the sort of settlen these foreigners wen Be was agreeably surpised to And that many reports that wen afloat reflecting upon the ' Scandinavians wen entirety untrae. Dm impression hit visit had left on his mind wm ■ that the Msurioeville settlen wen a tidy, hardworking and industrious lot of yasnls, 1 and he was giad to bo ahie to say fiew 1 pleased he was to find soeh to be ths eaas.. ! Went of spaeo pnvsnts nsgjmmt pahßeftv to some remarks wfaiebM from Id Botsm to the mischief that weald certainly some if 1 our elections wen to Uamdt unity a ones. ! tion M to which candidate was prepared to ■pend ths most auney; as alaoMr Beotham's 1 remarks on the rabbit pmflitn. and Mr * agricultural and pastoral mows.