It consisted of exactly four words • " Nobody asked for it." (Laughter.) Now he asked, who went into the other party's camp and began cooking with their billies 1 (Laughter.) The present Ministry had shown that they did not care twopence about the Electoral Bill, which they only held out as a bait to catch the popular vote. (Uproar.) And who was the prime mover in getting Mr Reynolds' Bill rejected ? Why, the Hon. John Sheehan, the present extremely Liberal Minister who moved that it should be committed that day six months. (Applause.) In the debate Sir George Grey made a speech, in whicb he expressed his surprise at a proposal in the bill to place natural-born and naturalised British subjects on the same footing. This would be of especial interest to our Scandinavian fellow colonists. He (Captain Russell) did not care whether a man was a foreigner or not— let him have a vote if he were a good settler— we were all colonists and New Zealanders. (Applause, and a voice ; "Chinamen and all.") Then it was Sir George Grey who prevented us having a third member for the Napior electorate. (A voice : Because you were not good enough.) That was the fault of the con stituency for not returning better men. (Laughter.) The proposal was made on the Ist October, 1875, when Sir George Grey — (A voice : You have Grey on the brain.) If he had it was because this was a ques tion of men, not measures. (A voice - "The Grey's the better horse." Laughter). Sir George Grey said that neither population nor any other circum stance entitled this electorate to another member, and he pointed out that tho Thames, with 14,000 population, had only two members, while it was proposed to give Napier, with a population of 9000, three members. Mr Reynolds said that the population was -2,750, upon which Sir George said that was only " estimated," and that he preferred to take the last census returns. Sir George added that Hawke's Bay already had one member in the Ministry, and two others on the Ministerial side of the House. That meant that he opposed the additional member because all the Hawke'B Bay members happened to be on the other side of the House. 