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the miners to get their stores and necessaries on to the ground at a low cost of carriage. AH other public works and improvements for the time being must give way to the great necessity of attending to our gold-fields. I would strongly and persistently advocate the opening up of the country in every direction without any delay whatever. It may be asked from' where is the money to be derived to accomplish this great work. My answer is this, that if the Colonial Government will not grant us a loan of, say £60,000 to £100,000, we will ask them to become security for us for the required sum. I am in favour of encouraging settlement on the lands, and to give all facilities to the agriculturist ; for when the goldfields are worked out we shall have a cultivated soil to fall back on. I am in favour of supplementing the main trunk roads with branch roads, leading into the centres of population ; and I am most desirous to co-operate with the Members of the County Council to induce the General Government to reduce the duty on gold. lam decidedly opposed to the sa 7 e of any lands in the vicinity of the goldfields, or when they are presumed to be auriferous, until a Bill is passed through the General Assembly legalising the miner to enter upon all ground known to contain auriferous wealth, compensation being given to the owners by arbitration in the manner proposed in the Bill thrown out by the Upper House at AVellington. Upon the subject of Education my views are very decided. I believe no question of greater importance can be brought before the Councu than that of a proper system of education for the rising generation. I should be favourable to liberal money grants to forward this most important cause. AVithout making more promises, I can only say that, if returned, I will do my utmost for the interests of the County as may seem meet to the best of my judgment. I Jim, Gentlemen, Yours respectfully, 3944 . SAMUEL BOYLE.

TO G. S. SALE, y ESQ. SIR, — AYe, the undersigned electors, earnestly desiring that you. should be one of our Representatives in the next County Council, respectfully request that you will allow yourself to be nominated as a candidate. AA r e feel well assured that your long and intimate acquaintance with the requirements of our several districts, your strong principles, and jour large ability, will ensure to us a yaluable representative should you be returned as one. In the event of your consenting to be placed in nomination, we promise you our warmest support to secure your election. AYe are, Sir, Yours obediently, Samuel Boyle M. H. Kittson Jno. Cosgrave and Co M. H. Kelly George Findlay Tait Brothers J. M. Higgin John M'Beath AVm. Gawne AA r illiam AA r oodside H. J. Hansen Mace and Dixon Alfred Dyson Alexander Mcc James Browne AY. A. AVilliams AY. M. Hare AVm. Cobb A. J. Mills Sinclair and Jack Joseph Ivess AValter Atkin AY. Keller James Bladier Michael Rouse John M'Namara John A. Roscow Thomas Collins AVm. Smith John Dixon Julius Matthies AY. G. Johnston Joseph Alman P. B. Cameron H. Meyer B. Mendelsson J. P. X lein J. R. Ryley, F.R.C.S. Wm. Swanson James Craig and Co James J. Bartlett J. Churches James Chesney Henry Elliott Jas. R. Anderson Charles Macduff AVilliam King Joh Crerar John Levy AA r alter Ramsay AY. H. Cousins John Fletcher C. P. Egan Robert Taylor Joseph Williams Richard Cooper Joseph Ross Benjamin Walker F. L. Kortegast Benjamin Boddy F.Dermot J. A. M'Donald AVilliam Graham H. R. Turner J. Reany John Hinchcliff Hugh Cassidy Donald Potter Charles Keast John Haskell James Evans John Kennedy Robert Whale John Groves Thomas North Charles Bennett John Cross AY. S. Lockhart John Angus Thomas Booth John Breeze Henry Hyams P. Solomon L. Cramer William Duncan Chr. Hansen Thos. Fitzpatrick P. Hansen George Connor Jno. Arkell Robert Wright W. D. Hyde Wm. W. Dunbar AA r illiam Evans John Mulvihill Wm. J. Staite Wm. H. Clay Cullen Bro.*. Gentlemen, — I return jou my besi thauks for the honor which you have done me, in asking me to come forward as a candidate for the town of Hokitika. Until quite recently, I was under the impression that it was intended that I should remain in office as County Secretary ; and I could not, while holding that office, have sat in the Council as your representative I find, however, upon a careful consideration of the County of AVe.stland Act, thai no such office as that of County Secretary exists. I shall, therefore, cease to act ir that capacity on the 31st December. Ide not suppose that it was the intention o: the General Assembly to confer such 1 reward for five years spent, not idly, in the public service Such, however, is. I believe the real state of the case, and therefore ] am now no longer a. salaried officer, but i private citizen, and as a private citizen ] willingly accept, the invitation which yoi have given me to come forward as yow candidate. I shall have no interests to serve excepi those of the County, and, should I be returned, all the abilities I possess will b( used with that object. Moreover, the knowledge of the district which I hav< acquired during four years of official worl in Westland, cannot fail, I believe, to give me a considerable advantage. I shall, no doubt, have some opportunities of meeting and addressing yoii or various subjects before the election; I neec not, therefore, enter into any discussion 0 details for the present; it is sufficient t( say that my main object would be to do fai more than has been done hitherto in mat ing roads into the interior of the country The prosperity of the County, I believe depends almost entirely upon it. You all know my fail ts, and I am noi unconscious of them myself; 3 r ou ar< also able to appreciate any good qualitie; which I may possess. Another man uiaj serve your interests more ably; no mai can do so more honrstly than I shall, if ] am returned. I remain. Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, G. S. SALE. 27th November ?.868. 45{6?