AN AUCKLAND NATIVE REELECTED IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9285, 12 February 1889, Page 6

AN AUCKLAND NATIVE REELECTED IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Residents of Auckland will be glad to learn that a native of this province, Mr. C. L. Garland, who is now in Auckland, having come over to visit the Hot Springs for the benefit of his health, was returned to the Parliament of New South Wales on Saturday last for the third time at the head of the poll by a majority of nearly 200 votes, for the important electorate of Carcoar. Mr. Garland's victory is all the more significant because of his absence from the seat of conflicts during the whole campaign. It is not quite ten years since Mr. Garland settled in New South Wales, and when ib is considered that the present will be his third Parliament, and that he is a young man of thirty-four yeara of age, it will be conceded that his progress has been as rapid as ib appears to be steady. Mr, Garland is a staunch Freetrader, and since his recent arrival in Auckland he has been invited to accept the presidency of the Single Tax League of New South Wales. He °is held in the highest esteem both in his electorate and in the Parliament, because of his steady adherence to principle, his independence of action, and his courteous behaviour generally. His wife, who is an Australian lady, is no less popular than her husband, and whilst Mr. Garland is attending to his Parliamentary duties she takes the whole management of the newspaper, of which her husband is proprietor. During the late political campaign Mrs. Garland has been indefatigable in fighting her husband's battle. At nearly every polling place in the vast Carcoar electorate she called meetings to advocate his cause, and being very popular, by reason of her personal worth and charitable deeds, doubtless her influence had a lot to do with securing for Mr. Garland such a large majority. Mr. Garland was educated entirely in New Zealand, having attended, besides other smaller schools, St. Paul's School, the High School, under Mr. Macrae, Mr. Robertson, and Mr. Reid, and subsequently the Thames school, uuder the late Mr. C. A. Robertson. Mr. Garland's energies have been principally devoted to the framing of a comprehensive Bill providing for mining on private property, which has twice been defeated by the influence of the large land owners in Parliament. Over seventy petitions have been presented to Parliament in favour of Mr. Garland's Bill, and he hopes eventually to carry ib in spite of the power of the land monopolist. During the formation of the late Parkes'Cabinet it was a toss up between Mr. James Inglis and Mr. Garland as to which of the two should have the portfolio of Minister for Public Instruction. Mr. Ingiis took the portfolio, and Mr. Garland gave his Government a loyal support all through. They are staunch private and political friends, and ib is a remarkable coincidence that both gentlemen should be in Auckland at the present time, and that they should both have been returned to the new Parliament. Mr. Garland, who has greatly improved in health since his arrival in our"colony, returns to Australia by the Mararao to-day.