Mr Fish addressed a meeting of the elec tors at St. John’s Hall, Roelyn, on Satur day evening, the mayor-elect (Mr Kemuitz) in the chair. Over 200 persons were pre sent, a very large proportion of whom were ladies, Mr Fish, who was greeted with loud applause, said that this was a free country, and therefore people could do pretty much as they pleased, provided they did not break the law' and kept within the bounds of pro priety and good taste. Therefore the Premier was within his rights in coming to Dunedin to address the electors upon the affairs of the country, but ho thought he had infringed the canons of propriety, good taste, and {airplay when he did so upon the eve of an election, and manifestly for the purposeof intimidating and coercing the elec tors into voting for his own candidates. He thought that the Premier in doing so had offered a great insult to the intelligence of the men and women of this electorate, and he felt sure they would resent such inter ference by their votes upon polling day. Personally, he (the candidate) was rather pleased than otherwise that the Premier bad done so, for it convinced him that the (so-called) “ dumb dogs ” felt themselves in a tottering condition, and therefore needed the help of their chief, and also because he felt sure the Premier’s presence here would lose them a great number of working men and women’s votes. Having exposed the Premier’s duplicity with icgard to the woman’s franchise, the utter departure from Mr Ballance’s proposed “ self-reliant and non-borrowing” policy, and the extrava gance of the Premier’s administration— giving as an example of the latter the ex penditure of £7OO of the people’s money on a pleasure trip through the UriweraCountry —Mr Fish referred in scathing terms to the trickery and intrigue by which Mrs Marion Hatton had converted the Woman’s Fran chise League, or, rather, the remnant of it—instituted as it was for higher and nobler purposes—into a partisan com mittee for the Premier and his satellites, lie also severely censured the audacity and arrogance of Mrs Marion Hatton in daring to speak in the name and on behalf of the women of the Dunedin electorate. Bub ho thought that this lady had now, happily, reached the end of her tether. 