CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES. I do not think it was wise to provoke a comparison between the two constituencies. But I have not done with the Chvistchurch speech yet. It is there said that you are a few farmers in an obscure country village. The truth is this, that is a way he has of dealing with anybody who crosses his path at ail, and you have so far done this as to have elected a man to represent you who has been instrumental in turning him out of his office. That is why he speaks of you in that contemptuous manner. His tune would have been widely different had you elected a supporter of his own. (Laughter and applause.) This would have been the most enlightened and intelligent body of electors he had ever met with— and Leesfoc, instead of being an obscure country villiage, would have been a great centre of political intelli gence, from m inch benefits without number would bavo flowed throughout the rest of New Zealand. He would not even stop there, gentlemen. The interest which he would Jiare taken in your children would have been -perfectly marvellous. He would state that he never had observed such interesting chil dren before j that your aons.would be elected Governors of the colony in the future, and that your daughters were the most perfect ladies he had ever met with. (Laughter.) That is what Sir George Grey would have i said if you bad elected—well Mr Gammack, for instance. (Laughter.).
