Mr Cabrick, in addressing the electors, said that when he was first asked by a few private friends to become a candidate for the district, he positively refused, because he did not see his way clear to stand. But, when a meeting of electors, at which he was absent, was held, and it was resolved to ask him to come forward, he did not see how he could decline, and accord ingly consented. A critical time was approach ing, and it behoved every man who assumed to be a public man not to shrink when the hour (.f danger was approaching. In deference to duty, therefore, but against his own wish.he consented to be put in nomination, believing that no better man would be brought, forward. Mi' Robertson was a man of great intelligence, and everything he said was, therefore, worthy of consideration. Ilia principal argument in favour of Mr Larnach was that he was the richest man in the district. There was an honest simplicity about the re mark which said a great deal for Mr Robertson's heart. He asked them to look at the first act of their friend Mr Larnach. It was to raise the salaries of members from Ll5O to L3OO a year 1. No one would ac cuse Mr Larnach of having any per sonal feeling in the matter, as he was only thinking of the poor creatures about him who would be the better of the extra amount. It was a wonderful stroke of states manship on the part of an _ embryo politician. There were four parties who objected to Provincial Governments. The first wis those who could not get in ; the second those who being in and having been proved incompetent, were turned out ; the third wore those members of Councils who failed to get a seat on the Ministerial Benches ; and the last were those who could not get all they wanted in the way of roads and such like. The people were like spoiled children under the care of a mother whose efforts they could not appreciate, but when en trusted to the care of a stepmother in Wel lington who had no feeling for them, they had then regretted the day they parted with their Provincial Institutions and the in dependence of Otago. 