He believed the maintenance of peace was in good hands when entrusted to the present Government, and that was the reason he had supported them. He was anxious to obtain the verdict of the meeting, and he would again assure the electors that he had done, to the best of hi 3 ability, that which he considered it to be his duty to do. (Cheers.) Mr Robert Hart said he did not know whether he should be able to make himself heard throughout the hall, as he was suffering from an attack of influenza; but he would endeavor to speak so that he would be heard. It was the first time, and it would probably be the last, that he should come forward to move such a resolution as he was about to move that evening, because he held it to be incon sistent with the position which he at present occupied—a position which was not sought for, but which was almost thrust upon him— that he should interfere with the local politics' of the City of Wellington. At the Bame time, he was under a certain amount of responsibi lity in respect to the question whioh wa9 at present before the meeting, for be took a very active part, as might be recollected, in promoting the return- of the present members for the city ; and although it might be that works had been hurried on much faster than he had anticipated under the policy which had been inaugurated, and to support which the city members were elected, still he was under the impression that under the peculiar circumstances in which they were placed they had acted wisely and well. (Applause.) He did not mean to say that he bad not had differences of opinion with them on some of the great measures which had been brought under the consideration of the Legislature, though he could hardly say “ under conside ration,” for they were hustled through rather than carried through Parliament. 