THE ELECTION.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2096, 25 July 1887, Page 2

THE ELECTION.

MB. BUCHANAN AT GLADSTONE. [FROM A OOBREBPONDEMI.j Despite the miserable weather and the fact that swollen rivers prevented a great many from attending, the sohoolbonse was unable to afford sitting room for the large number of settlers who attended the meeting.

Mr N. Grace being voted to the chair, Mr Buchanan congratulated the meeting upon the change of the electoral boundaries which bad made fellow-electors of so many who had been his neighbors during such a number of years, and expressed the hope that their experience of him as a settler and a public man had been such as would decide them to support him on the present occasion. He pointed out to the meetiug that the issue at present before the country was whether they would return representatives who would insist upon retrenchment in every branch of the public service or whether they would consent to the farther load of taxation which the present Government had donet heir utmost to impose upon them under the guise of Protection. He also went into details t > show that the Govt, bad not effected any savings in the public expenditure commensurate with the needs of the colony and strongly insisted that until Sir Julius Vogel was removed from office it would be idle to expect tiny real retrenchment Mr Buchanan dealt with the other prominent questions now before the public m a very earnest and forcible manner and it was evident that his audience was entirely with him.

Mr Kenall asked him whether he was in favor of importing foreign labor or any Danes. Mr Buchanan replied that the question was not a very definite one, but that many of the Danes amongst ns were some of our very best settfcrs. . A vote of thanks to |Mr Buchanan tor his address and a similar compliment to the chairman concluded the most successful meet ing ever held in Oladstone.