Last evening Mr W. F. Buckland, M.H.R. for the Manukau electorate, addressed the electors of that district in the Onehunga Public Hall. There was a large attendance of constituents. Mr W. Brierly was called to the chair. He briefly called for the at tention of the meeting, and asked those present bo give bheir member a fair and im parbial hearing. Mr Buckland opened his address by re ferring to the stress which he laid upon the questions of retrenchment and new taxation at the lasb election, and then spoke ot the opening proceedings of tho Parliament. He had objected to the changes in the Civil Service staff with each change of Government, and he still ob jected to them. He spoke of the senseless way in which the members of the Govern ment party conducted the businees of the House, bheir motbo being "The epoils to the victor." He threw his own weight on the side of the Opposition, but still the Opposition were out numbered by the Gpvernmenb members. The Government would rather have had no Speaker at all than have taken one from the other side. During the recess the Ministers of the Crown bravelled all over the colony, and incurred very large travel ling expenses, a return of which he asked for when he got back to Wellington. The Government at first objected to (jive that return, but eventually did. The return showed that £700 had been spent by Ministers during tho recess, and this notwithstanding the Government's pro testations of rebrenchment. Then there was £1,500 thrown away on the ueelees Native Lands Commission. Mr Rees virtually framed bhe reporb of bhab Commission, and ib was a facb that Mr Rees's opinions and reports on native mabbers were nob reliable. Mr Rees had done more than anyone else in the colony bo geb the Government into trouble with the natives on the East Coast. When he (the speaker) got back to Wellington he saw so much of useloss expenditure and gross extravagance on the parb of bhe Government, and so much bogus retrenchment, that he could not sup port them in their so-called " retrench ment " policy. 