ELECTORS OF INVERCARGILL.

Southland Times, Issue 2244, 24 December 1875, Page 2

ELECTORS OF INVERCARGILL.

(Per favor of the Times ) Kemember that your interests are in many respects distinctly antagonistic to those of Duuedin, and that provincial prosperity simply means that the revenue of the province is spent at and near the provincial capital, whilst the outlying districts, which supply the chief portion, viz., the land revenue, are proportionately neglected. This becomes manifest when we compare the different manner in which the Dunedin and Bluff Harbors are treated. In the one case an immense unnecessary and improvident outlay is now being actually incurred in deepening the harbor, to allow English shipping and oceangoing steamers to be taken to the Duuedin wharf, notwithstanding the fact that there is a sufficiently good harbor available — that of Port CLialmers — on which tens of thousands have already been expended, and which is connected, with Dunedin by an excellent railway, which has been constructed out of provincial funds, mainly derived from the Southland Land Fund, at an enormous cost. The Bluff Harbor, which is the outlet for the Southland district, has been and always will be utterly neglected by the Provincial Government. It is true that the Council | annually goes through the farce of voting large sums to improve it. Last year tiiey generously voted £ 10,000 for the purpose, Out the Executive, which includes an luvercargill representative (Mr Lumsden, who now seeks to represent us in the House of Representatives), take good care that not one pound of it is spent. hi short provincialism means raising revenue in Southland to squander in Dunedin. Abolition on the other hand means that the revenue raised in the district by the sale of lands shall be spent in the district in the construction and maintenance of railways, roads, and other public works. Electors of Invercargill ! which do you prefer? Let your answer be givgu to-day at the polling booth by voting for Cuthbertsou and local self-go-vernment.—l am, &c, Pbqgbess.