Morning and night was he at work, and he trusted he would be spared to see the results of some of his efforts to benefit West Australia.

(Loud cheers.) He considered, what with our lead and copper-mines, our Jarrah coal-mines, and the prospect of an auriferous country being found, a new era was dawning on the colony.

(Cheers.) For the first time in the last sixteen years he had the pleasure of drinking that evening the health of the members of the Legislative Assembly.

He was not yet a member of that Council, but it was probable he would be a member, and have important duties to discharge therein.

He was proud to learn the quiet and orderly manner in which the elections had been conducted, and the good feeling and harmony that existed on all sides, and to learn that the defeated candidates were the first to congratulate the successful ones on their nomination.