MB E. G. WRIGHT AT TINWALD. Mr E. G. Wright, the late member for Ashburton, and one of the candidates for the Rangitata seat, addressed a large meeting of the electors at. Tinwald on Tuesday evening. Mr Eedmayne occupied the chair. Mr Wright said he desired to congratulate the women of the Colony upon having obtained equal rights with men to choose their lawmakers. They were indebted to Sir John Hall and other friends for the great power conferred upon them by the Electoral Act of last session. As the franchise had been extended fco | every man in the Colony, there seemed 'to him no valid gro'uhd for denying it to women. It was well known by all members of Parlia ment that the Government was Eorely disappointed at the passing of the Acb. He advocated the system of railway manage ment by commissioners, for, although it was not perfect, and there was some grumbling, it was a faot that the railways had produced more revenue under their management than ever before, while fares had been lessened and rates reduced, representing in the aggregate a gain to the public of from forty to fifty thousand pounds a year. Under the present system, too, the accounts were kept distinct and accurate, so that the public could easily see how its money was expended. If the present system needed, amending it was not by Buoh a measure as Mr Seddon. Bought to pass. It was only impudent assertion not borne out by facts when Ministers said that they wera carrying on the public works without borrowing. It .was quite true that they had not openly placed a loan upon the London market, bat they had the benefit of £718,000 of loan money left by their predecessors, and had gathered by proper or improper means all the sinking funds they could lay their hands upon; He could show them clearly that the loan money at the disposal of the Government up to March 31 last was £1,056,181 168. The expenditure upon public works 'for the year ending March 31, 1392, was £328,564 13s Id, and for 1893 £472,952 4s sd. Out of the released sink ing fund they reduced the floating debt in 1891-92 £100,000. 