The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1883.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1260, 18 April 1883, Page 2

The Inangahua Times. PUBLISHED TRI- WEEKLY. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1883.

Owing to pressure of electioneering reports we are compelled to hold over a mass of correspondence and other local matter. Mr. Shaw addressed a meeting of the Black's Point electors in the school-house there on Monday evening last. The meeting was fxed for 8 o'clock, but owing apparently to a difficulty about a chairman, it was nearly 9 o'clock before the preliminaries had been arranged. Mr J. Auld eventually took the chair, and introduced the candidate. Mr. Shaw then proceeded with his address upon much the same lines as those followed at his Reefton meeting. He said that owing to the lateness of the hour at which he opened he would not speak at great length, and he would confine himself entirely to local topics. The speech was in fact a repetition of his Reefton one, saving that it was shorn of much of the labored treviality. At the close Mr. J. Connolly put a question to the candidate regarding Mr. Rolleston's leasing proposals, and Mr. Lawn asked which route the candidate would adopt for the overland railway. These were the only questions put, and answers having been given, Mr. Jacob M'Konney moved, and

Mr. J C. Craig seconded, that "Mr. Shaw is a fit and proper person to represent the district iv Parliament." Mr. Cochrane moved aa an amendment that a vote of thanks only be recorded, but there being no wish to embarrass the candidate with a hostile vote, the amendment was 1 allowed to fall through. The chairman did not call for a show of hands, but merely asked those present to signify their assent fo the proposition by saying "Aye," and we notice further, that the motion was only put to the meeting in the affirmative, no expression of opinion being invited against it. However, everything passed off very quietly, and Mr. Shaw, in returning thanks for the vote, said he could see that many present ' had stifled their real feelings, and it was very kind of them to do so. All he wanted was a fair fight, and if he should be defeated he assured them that he would not sit down and wimper over it. He took occasion to administer a rebuke to some of his over zealous supporters. He said when two men went out to fight a duel, they did not expect their seconds to start, hurling Billingsgate at each other, and he hoped there would be no more of it. He thought they should be able to fight the battle fairly, and without stirring up personal bitterness. The proceedings then, closed with a vote of thanks to the chair.