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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1619, 22 February 1866, Page 4

Election Notices. TO THE ELECTORS OF TBI SELWYN DISTRICT. GENTLEMEN, -I beg to offer myself as a candidate for the representation oi your district in the General Assembly as a general supporter of the policy initiated by the party of which Mr. Weld was the head. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, 344 E. C. J. STEVENS. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE HEATHCOTE DISTRICT, GENTLEMEN.— I have the honour to offer myself as a Candidate to represent your district at the coming election, in the Provincial Council. I have resided amongst you for some years and am personally known to many of you; possibly my political opinions may not be. On that ground I may be allowed to state briefly:— I am of opinion that centralization and an undue creation of departments, and as a necessary consequence an opening for place seekers, exists, far beyond the requirements of an efficient administration of the Government of the province; and this has in a measure tended to bring about the present financial difficulties. I should, if elected, support any well devised measures calculated to develope the resources of the province and am of opinion that nothing will effect this short of a judicious extension of railways and good roads. I am also in favour of a system of promoting a sound education, consistent with the existing requirements. I should be prepared to support any measure to conserve the landed estate of the province, especially with a view of modifying the present system of granting pre-emptive rights. I think that the present system of Road Board administration is very defective, especially in the outlying districts ; and I cannot see the justice of the farmers' industry being taxed; and the holders of unimproved lands, and the run-holding community being exempt, or nearly so, from local taxation. My motto would be " Economy, retrenchment, and no special class legislature." The farming and other interests being vested, and, to my mind, paramount, should be as faithfully represented as the sheep and commercial interests. If you think me competent to represent you in the Provincial Council lam willing to place ray services at your disposal, and hold myself in readiness to meet you at any time more fully to-explain my views. I am, Your obedient servant, JOHN JEBSON. Fountain villa, Lincoln road, Feb. 16, i 866. c 446

LINCOLN DISTRICT. TO THE HON. HENRY J. TANCRED. SIR,— We, the undersigned Electors of the Lincoln District request that you wil allow yourself to be put in Nomination for our District at the ensuing Election of the] Provincial Council, and we will use our best endeavours to secure your return. Joseph Louden Broadbent John George Murray George Craighead William Craighead Andrew Dawson Edward Prebble " T A Paunett Edward Wright Charles Bourn James Roberts W Walters George Gary J Stilwell • W Jackson S Harwood George Reigon Robert Roper George Cliff Henry Ingle S Gillingham G A Reade James Grant Robert Rowe Robert Grinter P Henelley W H HardyWilliam Williams Edwin White Thomas Holmes P Clinton M Kealley George Mangan John C Angus Thomas Laffey To J. L. Broadbent, Esq., and the Gentlemen signing the requisition. Gentlemen,—l thank you very sincerely for the honour you have done me in requesting me to become a candidate for the representation of your district in the Provincial Council, and I have great pleasure in complying with your request. I think the fact of my having a large interest in the district renders it hardly necessary to assure you that I shall be always anxious to attend to any suggestions for its benefit, and that I shall endeavour to promote those purely local objects which do not inter, fere with the welfare of the province as a whole. I w ill not on the present occasion, enter upon the great variety of subjects, affecting the province generally, which must necessarily engage the attention of the next Provincial Council; but I propose, with a view of affording opportunities for the exposition and discussion of my opinions, to request you to meet me at such convenient places, as will allow of the attendance of all the electors of the district, I will, however, advert, at once, to a proposal recently made for reducing the price of land; because I wish to declare my unqualified opposition to it. And I do this, not only because the question is, in itself, one of the most' vital importance, but also, because the mere fact of its having been raised has already, as it appears to me, done infinite mischief, by creating a feeling of doubt and uncertainly in transactions connected with land. I do not indeed believe that the proposal will ever be given effect to, or that it will be entertained by any who, from a lengthened residence in the province, have been in a position to watch the course of events, to observe the steadiness with which the principle embodied in our Land Regulations lias been adhered to, and to appreciate the beneficial results which have been the consequence. Still it appears to me desirable that a matter of such paramount importance to the future welfare of the province should be brought prominently forward by any candidate for a seat in the Provincial Legislature, in order to elicit an express declaration of opinion on the part of the electors. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedt. servant, 403 o HENRY J. TANCRED.