if it he my for tune to be elected Supiriutuulent on this occasion, I nhall he no mere round 0 : that you may depend on.—(Applause.) I will endeavor to initiate nu-usures fur the ad vancement of all the interests in th.- Pro vince—the agricultural, the commercial, tbc (joldfii-lcip, and every other; I will endeavor to get the sanction of the Council to those mcasims; ond then I should move the spheres i;i the endeavor to carry those measures into effect—-(applause) — instead of allowing them to remain, on the statute-books as dead letters, as has been the custom of late years A great many good measures have been passed by the Provincial Council, but there they remain useless. The honorable gentle min, Mr Miller, in proposing Mr Uick, referred in a .jeering way to my effort* in connection with the question of a dock. That ia a Provincial question, not a Dunodin or a Port Chal mers one ; tnd I say that we ought to have had a dock long ago.—(Applause.) I be lieve that if there had been proper cucrgy and zeal in the a I/uinistruiiori of the Go vernment, we should have had the Clutha Railway b?gun two jears ago, »t least.— (Applause.) It boa bscn awl,, and it has been applied to mo as a term of reproach, that I. atn an " ultra Provincialiat." 1 don't know any term iv the language, hardly, that is more rnUajiprehende-d-. Wli it does it mean, to be an " ultra* Provincial!*"? I ta'.:e it to moan, that a, man is an advocate for local self-govern ment to the greatest possible extent —for the miiingcincnt of our own affiirrj—for the administration of our own revenues for ourown purposes. That is what [understand by " ultra-Provincialism;" nnj that has. a'ways been my doctrine, and j[ hope that it will continue to be the principle upon, which I act.—(Hear, h?ar.) It is very singular that thj people ot Oimnru and Timaru, nnd the frienrls of the outlying} disttic.', as they call tlnmsdves generally, are re-ally ultra-Pritviiicialists, but that— from some meiit-.il ob'mcation which I can not ur.ders:and—they aro playing into lha hands of the Centralist-!. It appears, to me thai the Provincial syaieai haa never had fair-pky yot. It haa beer* either abused by it i" friends, or put i»to a fal'C position by its enemies. 