And wo now ask for this sum to be applied, say, one hundred and fifty thousand pounds in constitu ting and maintaining the main trunk road to the Bay, and fifty thousand each in subsidies to the seven counties. Wo ask for this money to be expended on properly made metalled roads, bridges, wharves, and other pormanct works, and its expenditure to be spread over a period of five years, or such other limited time as may be deemed right. Wc ask you to bring these our claims before your colleagues and to urge them, as you well know how. Yv c know that Mr Macandrew's heart is in Otago, I wish to God wc had a Macandrcw for this part of Now Zealand. I say advisedly it would be worth a million of money to us if we had. the seven counties wo represent number more people than h-If of Canterbury ; but it would be so humilia. ting to do so, that I shall make no comparison between our treatment by the Government a.pl them in the past. Your Government & liras to be the people's Government. You P>-ofess to legislate, not for acres or tor. icep or for cattle, but for people. Here t:;o 30 000 people who want some ot their own money back to them. We ask you for bread, do not give us a stone. You yourself shewed, some years ago, when you were Goldfields .Secretary, that this part of the colony was then entitled to a million pounds out of the then borrowed money. We never got it, and that being so we are now entitled to much more than we ask Mr Lundon agreed with Mr Dargaville, that they had not got justice. Ho pointed to the largo native population in the North, who gave the Government no trouble, and had not cost them one farthing; and tho natives who had been troublesome had been ted and pam pered with bread and flour. It would not be verydiiliculttogct up a native row in the North. It. was a, shame the way in which they had been treated, lie knew the Government could not give them half a million of money, but wished to know what they would receive.. 