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Southland Times, Issue 4156, 25 October 1881, Page 4

Election Notices TTOKONUI ELECTION. Mr COWAN'S supporters throughout the district are invited to form committees at the various centres, and place themselves in communication with the comniittei at Dip ton. oc2l R.D. MACLA.CHLAN. jP LECTION NOTICE. EOKONUI DISTRICT. MR DRIVER will address the Electors as undermentioned, when he will fully explain his views on the various subjects at pre--8 :nt engaging public attention — GORE— Wednesday evening, 26th Oct., at 7.30., in Green's Hall 0c22 MR J. P. JOYCE requests the Electors, of Awarua, to meet him :in ihe Schoolhouse, Clifton, on Tuesday, 25th October, at 7.30 p.m. Other meetings will be announced in due course. 0c22 MR COWAN will address the Electors at the following places : — Waikaia, — 25th. inst., at 7 p.m. Gore — 26th inst., at 7 p.m., at Green's Hall. 19th October, 1881. oc2l TTOKONUI ELECTION. Mr P. T. Finn will address the electors of the Hokenui District at Lumsden on WEDNESDAY NEXT, 26th OCTOBER (Other meetings will be duly announced. oc2o TTOKONUI ELECTION. MEETING AT WINTON. Mr Driver will address the electors at Winton, in the Exchange Hall, on Friday, Octo- ; ber 28th, at 7.30 o'clock. 0c24 Ihvercargill, 22nd Oct , 1881. To Messrs Gall, MacKay, Mac Lean, and the other gentlemen who have signed the requisition. ,/^ ENTLEMEN,— I have much pleasure in jVX accepting your invitation to become a j candidate for the representation of Mataura i District at the coming election, and will take an early opportunity to meet and address you at the several centres, at times and places of which I will advertise you. I am, gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, 0c24 J. T. THOMSON. TO THE ELECTORS OF AWARUA. Gentlemen, — I have the honor to announce that it is my intention to become a candidate for the iepresentation of your district iv the new Parliament. I will take every means in my power to place my views on the leading topics of the day fully before you. lam, Yours obediently, oc2l J. WALKER BAIN, TTOKONUI DISTRICT. TO THE ELECTORS. Gentlemen, — Having received requisitions signed by 230 electors, in various parts of the district, requesting me to offer myself as a candidate to represent your electorate in the General Assembly ; I have the honor to intimate that it gives me ple ( osure to comply therewith. Until the receipt of these requisitions and the very large support otherwise assured me, I was very indifferent as to seeking a seat in the new Parliament, and in any event had long since determined that on no account would X seek to represent any but an agricultural district. While we should all view with pride the increasing importance of our various commercial centres, I cannot help feeling that it has a tendency towards unduly centralising wealth and influence (and consequently the expenditure of public money) to the prejudice of the outlying agricultural districts. If I have the honor to be returned as your representative, I will join and work with that section of the House whose principles are : — The Unity of the Colony. The Continuance of our Public Works Policy, combined with proper encouragement to immieratiou (for I hold that it will end in utter ru;n to all if we stop half-way). Economy in the Public Works Service, without such cheese-paring reductions as 10 per cent, discounts on the salaries of Civil servants and Government employes. The Financial Separation or adjustment of revenue and expenditure between the two Islands. The extension and improvement of our system of Local Government, provided with funds to open up the country for settlement, which the Central Legislature is both unable and unwilling to undertake. A direct steam communication with England. The opening up of the whole country for settlement in reasonable-sized Pastoral and Agricultural Blocks, re-leasing by auction the Pastoral Crown Lands after subdivision, but subject at all times to free selection (before : survey) under the Deferred-payment system in suitable sized areas for bona fide agricultural settlement, and the disposal of Educational and other Reserves under the same regulations as ordinary Crown lands, the same regulations to be applicable, to all the Crown lands of the colony. The reduction in the cost of Education, reverting to the system of moderate school fees, thus placing parents (through School Committees) and teachers upon a more independent footing. , The discontinuance of bonuses to Local Industries, which are seldom productive of the results aimed at, substituting therefor just sufficient Protective duties to encourage the investment cf Colonial capital, without unduly increasing the cost to consumers. The reduction of Railway Carriage on Agricultural produce, timber, minerals, and manures. If returned, with the honor of representing the first Agricultural District in the colony, and in which I have such a large personal interest, identical with that of every resident elector, I will do my utmost to give effect to the views expressed, and specially will I do all in my power to open up and improve it. I will not be deterred by a section of the press in any particular centre of population from using all the'influence I possess in passing an Act for opening up the lands for settlement in the Waikaia Valley, or in the construction of light railways up that Valley, and from Elbow towards Mararoa, and from Winton to the Nightcaps, and an extension of the Forest Hill line to a junction of the main line between luvercargill and Dnnedin. The question as to whether it will be of more benefit to one town or the other is no concern of yours or mine, but x venture to thiigk ; <t'ha,t no district should stand still while iival towns are "disputing as to its ownership. Commercial enterprise will or should regu,I.i' e this to the advantage of all. As far as. I am personally concerned, 1 have no special sympathy for one town more than the other. A9 a matter of fact, I have not sufficient interest in either Dunedin or Invercargill to enable me to qualify myself as an elector in «ither of these places. With regard to the present Government, I claim to be in an entirely independent position. So long as they carry out the views I hold and show a reasonable desire to assist tho district, they will receive my support, but not otherwise. : I will take an early opportunity of publicly expressing my views at greater lengthen tte subjects now briefly referred to, as well as many others of equal importance. And I would respectfully ask those electors who do not personally know me to withhold granting their support in the meantime. I am, gentlemen, Yours faithfully, H. DRIVER. Wairn^a, Cot., 1881. ool?, ,