NOMINATION AT TIMARU.

Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 3223, 30 December 1875, Page 2

NOMINATION AT TIMARU.

The nomination of a candidate to represent the district of Timaru in the General Assembly took place in the Court-house at noon on Tuesday. We take the following report of the proceedings from the Timaru Herald-.—

The returning officer, M? B. Woollcombe, having read the writ, called upon some elector present to propose a candidate.

Mr P. B.Luxmoore, chairman of theTimaru and Gladstone Board of Works, said he had very great pleasure in proposing the Hon B W. Stafford as a fit and proper person to represent the district. He had been their representative for several years, aud bad gained the entire confidence of the electors. The position Mr Stafford had taken with regard to the Government last session had won him laurels, and reflected credit on himself and the district. [ Hear. | At a meeting held some years since Mr Stafford had said be would go up to the Assembly entirely nnfettered, but he would see their local interests carried oat to the best of his power. [Hear, hear.") When they considered the material increase of population and the wealth of the district* they were entrusting a still greater responsibility on Mr Stafford than when he was first elected.

Mr J. IH. Sutter, Mayor of Timarn, in seconding the nomination, said that while one representative went in for the squatting interest and another for something else, Mr Stafford would go in for the general interest of the coontry. He had served them well in the past, and no doubt would da the same hereafter. He had great pleasure in seconding the nomination. Three cheers were then given for the candidate.

Mr Stafford, on coming forward, said that the way in which the election had taken place, and the fact of its being the third time, was a source of great gratification to him. He would reserve his general remarks for the following evening, aa he believed it woald be much more convenient for the electors. He felt greatly disappointed at the short notice which had been given by the Returning Officer, as living at the distanoe that he did, it was

time. They would remember ttat JPJ? Tioue occarione he had always guarded?,* refrained from expressing hie opinioWK brakwater. The only time on Which fc Had refened to it he had eaid thatS**! there mi good end reliable eugiS? opinion takepopon it, 'he would not Sh£ ftnJit-bnt if that was done and the£L£ waß favorable, the colony ought to J??** work carried out. Ho had forebore 2J " anything before, because he woll? ,10 ? pledge Mmself to what might turn nn ? Ot waste of public money. HfhadTodW now from Sir John Coode's report success o* the Oamaru breakVKSnSs£? was no other work in New Zealand could be better entered into and prle productive. He would therefore Jμ hVS?? interests in the Legislature t og e t it They had a certain sum of m «£l for it purpose already, which he believed I quite secure. He had spoken to the mL'ES about it more than once, and ffi SSS the assurance that it would notteSSS for any other purpose. Ther* vZZ , of supplementing iTby should be required, but it ap~Lj ? him that they had a to have the extra earn provided t? .them, than to have to find it \ of their own pockets W Lj nt Mr Yon der Hyde g P a ve nSice oftmoffij make the railway at Auckland terminate oj the wharf. He (Mr Stafford) and other? seeing the importance of the question, iSt to him and asked him not to press the matter upon the Government then, whe? they had not had time to consider t • a«S said that he (Mr Stafford) and others WO S support it it he made it a The colony as a whole, of which they part, would have to supplement theme*,required for a breakwater. He did not!!? it was absolutely certain that it would tl adopted next session, but he believed «n • w He would not make any allusion t.» ♦>.« General Assembly, but onfhe ing he would go into all important public questions. The way he had been elected was an honor to any man, and any rapture between himself and his constituent mJJ should very much regret. His name, inside and outside the House, was always connected with Timaru. (Applause.] If any Jth« member represented Timaru now he should feel very much aggrieved. It was always very gratifying to a member to know and feel that the moat sensible portion of hie constituents were with him. He had been solicited by other places to represent them, but his Timaru constituents had behaved well to him, and as long as they did that he did not wish to leave them. [Applause. 1 He had every reason to believe that on all important questions he was thoroughly in accordance with them as regarded the Government, and holding that opinion he had greater pleasure in representing them than it he was not. He thanked them for their confidence, and trusted it would not be misplaced hereafter.

There being no other candidate in the field Mr Stafford proposed a vote of thanks'to the Returning Officer, which was carried by acclamation. -

Mr Jonas said that he did not think the ensuing night would suit well for the meeting and asked Mr Stafford if it could not be postponsed so as to give those resident at a distance a fair notice.

Mr Stafford said he was quite at the service of the electors up till the 3rd of January when he wished to attend iwo elections in the North. He would hold his meeting here on Friday evening.