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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 59, 12 March 1867, Page 1

Pubiic Notices. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PROVINCE OF NELSON. GENTLEMEN— In announcing to you that it is my intention to offer myself as a candidate for the position of Superintendent when that office shall have become vacant by tbe retirement of Mr Saunders, I should perhaps apologise for doing so in the absence of any formal requisition to that effect, signed by a number ofthe constituency. But my experience of political affairs leads me to attach * but a moderate value to such documents, and I prefer to place myself unreservedly in your hands, asking only for your unpledged aud unfettered support if, after carefully weighing the qualifications of the various candidates who may present themselves, you are satisfied that you would best serve the interests of the community by giving it to me. The gold-fields ofthe West Coast, to which we are indebted, directly or indirectly, i'or so considerable a portion of our revenue, will continue to call for unremitting attention on the part of the Provincial Government. The prompt, energetic, and prudent management of these goldfields by Mr Saunders has, as you are probably aware received my constant support as a member ofthe Provincial Council; and, as regards this pari; of the duties of the {Superintendent, I should endeavor to carry out the policy which has been so a'jly initiated. I am however firmly convinced that the_ resources of the western district of the province can never be fully developed, nor the fnli benefit of those resources be experienced by the community, until the projected railway Irom Nelson to Cobden and' Westport has been constructed. The power to give land in payment for this most important work has been granted to the Superintendent by an Act of the General Assembly, but it remains to find contractors willing to undertake its execution upon these terms. To effect this object I should, in the event of my election, devote myself heart and mind; believing as 1 do, lhat its accomplishment is the one thing needed to relieve the province from the comparative stagnation whicli has so long prevailed, and to bring greatly increased prosperity to all classes of its inhabitants. I am well aware ofthe difficulties which have to be faced, and ofthe energy, determination, and perseverance which are required to surmount theni; but I should set to work animated by the hope and belief that those difficulties can be overcome, and that the contractors, as weli as the province, would be largely benefitted by the undertaking. While' looking upon the West Coast Railway as the public work which, aflecting as it does so greatly the welfare of the province us a whole, claims the largest share of the attention of your Superintendent, there are others in which I have long felt deep interest, and which 1 should do my utmost to carry into execution. Amongst them are the construction of a Dry Dock or Patent blip in Nelson Harbor; the introduction of Pure Water for the supply of the inhabitants of the City of Nelson, and the shipping of the Port, as well as for the prevention of calamitous fires ; and the erection of Bridges over the Waimea and Hurunui rivers. The active part which I have taken for many years past in pressing the value and importance of ihe Coal-fields in various parts of the province upon the attention cf the Provincial Government and Council, makes it, I think, almost superfluous for me to assure you that the subject would meet with no neglect o"r indifference at my hands. My general political opinions must be so well knownto most of you, that I think it unnecessary to enter upon any expression of them in this address: but when the resignation of Mr Saunders lias beer, officially announced, I shall lose no time in visiting the various electoral districts, so as to give the whole constituency of the province the opportunity ot learning my views upon all subjects iv which they leel au interest respecting them. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, OSWALD CURTIS. ELECTION OF SUPERINTENDENT. MR. OSWALD CURTIS requests the ELECTORS of the undermentioned districts to MEET him at the places named, at 7 o'clock on the respective evenings : — Waimea East — School-house, Spring-grove, Monday, „11 Eorest Inn Tuesday, „ 12 Waimea West— Upper School room ... Wednesday,, 13 Uppi k Moutere— Benseman's Thursday,. „ 14 Motueka and Riwaka— Institute Friday, „ 15 Suhujrban South — Stoke School-room ... Monday, „18 Nelson, March 1. 1948 ELECTION OF SUPERINTENDENT. T\/f"R. BARNICOAT will, on his return from JxL Golden Buy, take the earliest opportunity of visiting the home districts, for the purpose of ADDRESSING the ELi-CTuli?, .pariicaiars oi time and place being reserved for future advertisement. 1994