THE NOMINATION FOR MATAUR.
[Press Special Wire]
Inveboahgill, January, fc The nomination of candidates, for {,'_ Mataura seat took placo today. There* a very meagre attendance.. Mr Jaggers proposed, and Mr H. Can* seconded, the nomination of Mr J. Shanks, Mr J, tt, Morton proposed, and M? Richards seconded, the nomination of Mi.tix Kinross, -.
j Mr Shan-Si'in a brief apeeoh, said he tiki meet the eleotors at various places dun.. the week, " ..,, >MrKinroes referred tp the slight intei", taken___ithe eleclaon, ao few being vnm . He said he believed the land question v thia-one, on > which." the election would te ahd*_q«n_ated that hia opponent was a k\. or else tho landowners wofc. have brought forward a candidate of te ? opi.ii He wished every man togst landf"" his own, and that thero should bo equal ). , for Aicry body. He would not eappod .. policy calculated to promote tha ereatioa.'-a, an aristocracy, and he alluded to tho rite i'_ Invercargill gthrough the saltloment of ft» country. But for that, ho said, the toy would be now a mißerable village with won"' ing men walking about begging a day's we from the runholders. He conteueied ti . every election day should be a publio bolidsj that the franchise should m extended), woman, as by that a double vote would bo fc stowed upon,those who supported a wife «s X family. Mr Kinross spoke of his oppons, as tha Conservative candidate, and he piedjjt ; himself to oppose denominational ed_o_tios ; b The .show of handa was five for __r3_ic-and-qur for Mr Shanks. Tlie poll is to i taken on January 15th.
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Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4195, 7 January 1879, Page 2
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