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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 9, 1 July 1884, Page 3

Election Notices md~THE ~ELECTOHS OF EANGITIKEI. Gentlemen, — I beg to offer myself as a candidate i . for the honour of representing you in the nest Parliament, and should you again honour me with your confidence, i I will use my best efforts to practically and faithfully represent your interests ; and those of Now Zealand generally. I have the honor to be, Yours obediently, JOHN STEVENS. MANAWATU ELECTION. ME MACAETHUE will address the electors at — Feilding, in the Town Hall, on Tuesday, July 1. at 8 p.m. Halcombe, in the School-house, on Wednesday, July 2, at 8 p.m. Ashurst, in the School-house, on Thursday, July 3, at 8 p.m. Awahuri, in the School-house, on Friday. July 4, at 8 p.m. "THE MANAWATU ELECTION. A FTEE Mr Macarthur has given Ji\, his address at the Public Hall this evening, a meeting of his supporters will be held to form a Committee to assist in securing his return to the House. "jIfANAWATU ELECTION. To F. Y. Lethrridgr, Esq., G. M. Snklson, Enq., and the electors signing the above requisition. Gentlemen, In response to your very flattering and gratifying request I have great pleasure in consenting i to be nominated as a candidate for j Manawatu at the coining election. I shall take an early opportunity of addressing the electors at the various | centres, and explaining my political views in detail. In the meantime I may state that I am more in accord with the policy of the Atkinson Ministry than with that of any of the numerous leaders on the other side of the present House. Though that Ministry has no doubt made mistakes' I believe the leading members of it have on the whole worked honestly, according to their lights, for the good of the colony at I large, and that especially they have j tried to promote the prosperity of the counti-y districts by liberalising the land laws, and by their scheme forj the construction of roads and bridges, the partial failure of which through want of funds is attributable to causes beyond the control of any Government. 1 cannot, however, agree with Mr Ilolleston's projected scheme of perpetual leasing, or with what it is now the fashion to call the nationalization of the land. Let the Crown | lands be leased on the easiest terms compatible with due provision for survey and road making, but as under the present Act let a purchasing clause always be granted after a fair proportion of improvement has been made. The truest nationalization of the land, I hold, is to settle it with freeholders in moderate sized blocks, trusting for revenue to the development of the resources of the country caused by such settlement rather than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a State tenantry. I agree generally with the native policy of the Atkinson Ministry, and especially so with Mr Bryce's proposal for the resumption of the preemptive right. I am in favour of secular education, and as long as the finances of the colony warrant it, of free primary education, and in any case of free education up to the fourth standard. I should like to see our railways managed by a non-political Board, the members of which should only be removable in the same manner as Judges of the Supreme Court. Other and minor questions I will deal with when addressing the electors face to face. If I have the honor to be elected, I can conscientiously say that I will endeavour to the best of my ability to represent the district as a whole, without bias in favour of any particular part of it, while remembering at the same time that a member is elected to watch over the interests of the colony at large. Your Obedient Servant, D. H. MACARTHUE. James Hugli, WATCHMAKEE & JEWELLEE, Will begin business on Saturday, 21st June, next to the Bank of New Zealand, Fergusson Street. Just Imported from France, England, Germany and Switzerland, a very Large Assortment of WATCHES, JEWELLERY, Spectacles, and Folders. 1 And a very large stock of ElectroPlate goods. Repairs will be done at once.