We have been requested to announce that the Hon W. P. Reeves will not : address any meeting to-night, as he is too busily engaged in other work. i The Lyttelton roll contains the names of 2211 males and 1378 females. Mr Hoban will address the electors of Ohrißtchurch this evening at the Oddfel lows' Hall. His friends and supporters ' meet this evening at Inglis' Buildings at 7. ' Mr M. Davie had a good audience at i the Theatre Boyal on Saturday night. Mr • E. C. Bishop took the chair, and read a i letter from Sir J. Hall, who would have been Chairman but for a prior engage ment. Mr Davie prefaced his remarks by alluding to the fair and manly treatment he had experienced from the Editor of the Lyttelton Times, who had gone to great trouble to correct an unintentional mis take which had crept into his columns, even though that mistake affected a : politioal opponent. During his remarks ] Mr Davie was frequently applauded, and received a hearty vote of thanks new. con. ' Messrs Eeeves and Sandford's Execu- ' tive Committee will meet this evening at Morten's Buildings at 7.30, and the General Committee will* meet at eight o'clock. The Sydenham Committee of ' those gentlemen will meet at 7.30 this evening in the Committee room, Colombo road.* ; Mr Blake addressed the electors at Addington Echoolhousa on Friday night. There was a fair attendance. At the clobg of Mr Blake's speech a resolution of "thanks for the address, and that the ( meeting has no confidence in Mr Blake as a representative for this electorate," was carried. Between eighty and ninety electors met Mr Saunders in the Hoiorata Hall on Saturday evening. Mr Nelson, Chairman of the School Committee, occupied the chair. Sir John Hall took a very zealous part in defending his and the Atkinson Government, on the ground that their enormous expenditure was necessitated by the action of their predecessors. Mr ; Saunders admitted that this was true to I some extent, but he declined to devote a meeting called for other purposes to a discussion of the comparative ettraya gance of the Grey, Hall, Yogel or Atkin- , son Governments, all of which had heaped ' so much debt upon the Colony. A vote of. 