HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, July 18. THE ADDRESS IN REPLY. '

Mr LUCKIE, in moving theaddress in reply to his Excellency’s speech, said it was witli a very considerable degree of hesitation he undertook the duty he was about to perform. Naturally, a young member for the first time addressing the chosen representatives of the people must experience a feeling of diffidence, and while confessing to a feeling of that kind he trusted the House would extend to him the forbeerance and indulgence which it was customary to accord to members occupying the position which he had undertaken to fill. The address of his Excellency had been laid before all the members of the House, and would of course be taken as read. That being the case he would proceed to refer to the paragraphs it contained, which, as hon mem bers were aware, Avere repeated or echoed in the address he was about to move. The first subject referred to —the recovery of the Prince of Wales —was one which he need say very little about, inasmuch as not only had the feeling of the House been already expressed upon it but the feeling of the country had been manifested in so unmistakable a manner on the occasion of the thanksgiving services which the people of NeAV Zealand, following the example of the people of England, had so unanimously participated in, was proof that thmigh they were separated by thousands of miles from the mother country the old feelings which grew up with them had been carried with them to this colony. The peculiar cir cumstances attaching to the illness of the Prince had given opportunity for showing that their loyalty had been strengthened, and he had no 'doubt the feeling produced by the manifestation of loyalty on the part of the people of New Zealand would lead to a reci procal feeling and the general rejoicing would tend to produce a greater endeavor on the part of the Prince to show that he is deserving of that loyalty which had ever been shown towards his mother. He had no doubt whatever that the House would concur in the next paragraph of the Speech in which his Excellency congratu lated them on the tranquillity of the country. 