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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 242, 14 October 1869, Page 3

BOOTS! ! BOOTS !! ! SEE T*/TYEBS & TSAA^'S 111 1 PitiCE LIST 19:9 LAST PAGE. ELECTION OF SUPEUINTENDENT/ MR. CURTIV CENTRAL COMMITTEE will .vIEET in the LATE ORIIKRLY KOuM, Hardy titreet, EVERY EVENING, at Seven o'clock. C. ELLIOTT, Chairman. Nelson, October 8. 216§ TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PROVINCE OF NELSON. jM ENTLEMEN,— The Governor's writ having V?T been issued for the, election ofaMJI'KKLSTENDKNT of this Province, I beg to solicit a renewal oi the confidence you have already placed in me. It is extremely gratifying to me that the important project to which I promised at my election to devote my most earnest attention, ha* niet with a highly favorable reception at the hands of a body of gentlemen of rank, influence, aii'i capital, in London, ami I firmly trust that the negotiations now in progress will result in the speedy commencement of a line of railway from Nelson to Cobden and West; ort Nothing, in my opinion, could so effectually secure the pirmanent prosperity of all parts of the Province as the execution of this great work, and no efforts on my part will be wanting to secure it. Of the other public works which I then specified, I have been enabled to complete (he Ne!>.on Waterworks, and the bridges over the Waimca and Hurunui Kivers. The remaining one, namely, the Nelson Dry Dock, is still in abe>- ance. I induced the Provincial Council to vote a sum of money towards its construction, but the gr r at decline in the revenue that- year compelled me to abandon ihe project. But the assent of the Governor having a few weeks since been given to an amended Guarantee Act, I have advertised both in this colony and in Australia for tenders under its provisions, which I hope will produce a practical result. A very large expenditure in public works and otherwise has taken place during my short term of office upon the South West Gold-fields, at one time far in excess of the revenue derived from the district, and from first to last the expenditure within it has fully equalled the net reveaue, both direct and indirect. Statements of an opposite character have, however, beeu industriously circulated, and a petition for separation has been presented to the General Assembly. I shall, if re elected, take care that full justice shall be done to that district in the future, us it has been done in the past, but no amount of pressure wil induce me to sacrifice the intesests of the province as a whole to that or any oi '>er district, and I shall also strenuously or pose i.il attempts to dismember the province, which wo ■• -<i lam convinced, be disastrous to all parts of ir, and more especially to the South- West Goid-fi; i-.is themselves. The large reductions, amounting to nearly £12,000 per annum, which I made during, ihpast year in the departmental expenditure of rhe Province, will, I think, have convinced you tl-..v.s although I have made no professions about economy, I have neither been slow nor sparing ia action. The depression whidi has for some time existed in all parts of the colony, although I believe rrore severely felt in most of tl>e other Provinces thnn in Nelson, wi11,.1 trust, soon p.-.ss away, and be succeeded by prosperity of a mor* lasting and wholesome character than that which preceded it. The manufacture and cultivation of native fbx are now deservedly attracting much attention ia this light, and I am doing all in my power, by introducing the best class of machinery and otherwise, to promote so desirable an accession to our small list of local manufactures, as lam ir.oat anxious to promote everything which leads to the employment of labor and the permanent settlement of the country. I defer the consideration of many other topics till I meet you personally. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, OSWALD CURTIS. Nelson, Sept. 28, 1869. 2069 ALL SAINTS' CHURCH. rpHE CHURCHWARDENS will be ia attenX dance at the Vestry on the Evenings of Wednesday, the J3ih and Thursday the 14th instants, at Half-past Six o'clock, for the purpose of RECEIVING the PEW KENTS for Uio ensuing Half-year. W. J. KODGERSONM „. , . JOHN THORNTON, } Churchwardens. Nelson, Oct .ber 1, 1869. 2173 THE SUPERINTENDKNCY. MR. GIBBS will have much pleasure in MBKTING the J-LECTORS at the following times and places, when he will endeavor to give any FURTHER EXPLANATIONS which may be desired on subjects relating to the way in which he would propose to fulfil the duties of the O"~ce : — UrPEE Mottterk — c 'chool-roora, Oct. 14. Motitbka — Institute. Oct. 13. RrwAKA— School-house, Oct. 16; Stoke — School -house, Oct. 18. Wakapuaka — School-house, Oct. 19. At Half-past Seven bMoeic in the Everußg. 2)sti