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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 199, 19 July 1884, Page 3

STEVENS & GORTON. THURSDAY, 24th JULY. AT THE AWAHURI SALE YARDS. ST F, V E N S & G O It T O N will sell as above — 10 fat cow& 50 fat wedders IGO forward wedders , 150 store ewes 40 cows , 10 heifers 15 ii-y ear-old stecr,s 5 8-year-old steers , 60 mixed yearlings 150 assorted fruit trees Sale at 1 o'clock. (Grass Seeds ! orass Seeds! ! Grass Seeds ?!,,! T U i S T ARRIVED Ex ' s.Si ■ Aor*rij»i'j and Doric from London, •A lay We Cow Grass, "White "' Cl'oveiy Ked dfr, Trefoil, and i Fescues, &d,' &c. ' ; - ' •'•■■ ■'■' :; '- Also, / -'■'■ English Rye Grass (machine dressed) from old pastures, 1 1 Italian Rye, Tiiribthy, Cocksfoot, '.Field Turnips, Rape, &c. I New Zealand Barb Wires I .''' Nos. 6, ., 7, and # ' Fen ! cinq Wires. ! /OATS, "CHAFF, ■ ■•COOPER'S Sr'EEP DIP; ; •'■ ■■■" 'Alsb, /" ; . , V i Few Boxes Tea, @ 16/6. N.8. --The Clovers are of the best quality obtainable m the London market, this season. . Special quotations for large quantities. i STEVENS <s GORTON, . R. Leigh, Manager. MANAWATtJ ELECTION. i/■ i '.' To F. Y. LETHBRrDGE, " Esq. , '(>. 'H&.. Snelson,, Esq., and th'> plhor Electors signing the, requisition a s sking . me to become a Candidate for fche . , ( Manawatu seat. GENTJiiEMEIf, — In. response to your very flattering and gratifying request, I have great pleasure iri^c'onsehtiug to lien'p'nvin ted as a Candidate for Manawatu at the coming election* , I shall lake an early opportunity of addressing the electors at the various* centres, and explaining 1 my political views m detail. In the meantime, I may state ..that. I ■unVvtt'iore in/accord with the policy of- the Atkinson Ministry; than with that of any df the liiimerpus leaders of the other, side of the! vpresent House.) Though that Ministry has no, doubt made mistakjes. I believe the leading members of jit have-on the' whole worked .honestly according, to their lights for the- good of the Colony at large, and tjha|t e^peciallv^,Uicy have tried to pro•aiote -the '; prosperity of the country* disiiicts, by liberalising the land laws; and by, their scheme for the construction of ; ro£j.ds and bridges, the partial failure "^6f which through want of funds is attributed to causes beyond the' control of any Government. li cannot, however, agree Witfr Mr Rotk'stoit's projected scheme of perpetual leasing, or with what it is now the jfasliion'to call "the nationalization of llie land." Let the Crown lands. be. loaded on the easiest tenus compatible with due provision for survey and i oadtuakirig., .-hut,.. as ijnder the pifsent Act, let a purchasing clause always be granted/after a. fair proportion of im. proyement has been' made by the'leaseholder."" The " triiesl national iisation of the land l , I hold, is to settle itwith freeholders 'in moderately-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 froui a State itjsnitntry , ." , > . 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 m favour ot Secular Euucation, and so long 1 as the , finances of the (Uolony warrant it, of free jmmary education, Jand m '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 m the .-same manner as Judges of the Supreme Court. Other and minor questions I will deal with wh«n addressing the elect ox's lace to face* h. If I have the honor to be elected, I can conscientiously say that 1 will" ..endeavour to the best of my ability to represent the district as a whole without bias m favour of any particular part of it, while rememberiug at -the same time that a member is elected to watch over the _ interests of the Colony at large. Your Obedient Servant, D. H. MACABTHUR.