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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3178, 20 April 1871, Page 4

Bu mess Notices. G O v~e RNM EN T DEP O T joe Educational Works and School Requisites. By special Excellency appointment /3§»i fl jTvy fc ' ie to His JSjp* S !%*» Governor. [Established 1865.] EDWARD GREAVES SMITH, Music Seller, &c, Wellington. Pianofortes, Organs, and Harmoniums, Brass, Reed, aud String Instruments. Musical Instruments Tuned and Repaired. Monthly Parcel of the Newest Music and Books. m All instruments in this establishment are personally selected by James Smith & Sons, Music Sellers, by special appointment to the Queen. N.B.— Sole Agent for Milner'a Fire Resisting Safes. ILNER'S QUADRUPLE PATENT HOLDPABT AND FIRE- RESISTING SAFES, OHEBTS, STRONG ROOMS, & STRONG ROOM DOOR 3 Of all the several qualities, and suitable for tilt different degrees of risk. The strongest, wrought iron safeguards against flre, robbery, or violence extant at the lowest prices consistent with the most perfeot efficiency and security. EDWARD GREAVES SMITH, Wellington, Principal Agent for New Zealand. NEWE3T MUSIC, &c , sent POST FREE to all parts of the Colony. EDWARD GREAVES SMITH. J& R. S L O A N~ . Tailors, Are now showing their opening Shipments or WINTER CLOTHS, TWEEDS, AND VESTING 3, Ex England, And have every confidenco in calling publio attention to their STOCK, aB being without doubt the largest of the kind in Wellington. Tho steady and permanent increase in our trade enables us to offer our goods this season at even LOWER PRICES than before. The advantages of buying from a large and wellselected stock are so obvious as not to require comment. FASHIONABLE TROUSERS TO MEASURE, £1 Is. CASH. All goods thoroughly shrunk, and perfect fit guaranteed. i~! ii v n t . BOOT & SHOE IMPORTER. Hunter Street, Wellington. Wholesale Only GASCOINE & PARSONS^ BUILDERS, UNDERTAKERS, &o. Pipitba Street, THORN DON FLAT. DANDS and MoDOUGALL Wholesale Stationbbs, Wellington. New Zealan* Sands & McDougall, Melbourne. John Sands, Sydney. Robert Sands & Son, London. Election Notice. " TO THE ELECTORS OP THE PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON. /~^i ENTLEMEN,— At the request of a large \JT number of my fellow settlers I have consented to come forward and contest the election for the Superintendency of the province. As it is desirable that you should become acquainted with my sentiments on the present position of affairs, I hasten to lay them before you. Sou are aware that I have for the last ten years been opposed to Provincialism, and stand pledged, if elected, to use my utmost exertions to abolish the system. I should be in favor of Country Boards and Municipal Councils with extended powers, to carry out which special legislation would be necessary. I hold that tbc more you localise the governing power the greater the benefit derivable. I look on this principle as more conducive to the interests of the great mass of the people, both in town and country, as you confer on them the power of managing their own local affairs on the spot, for which they must be infinitely more competent, as knowing tho special and peculiar circumstances of each case as it arises, and from being looated in the vicinity and interested as holders of property and bonafide settlers than persons in other parts of the province, legislating at a distance and not affected except in a general way. The surveys are in a disgracefully backward state, some 550,000 acres having up to the present time been sold without the purchasers, many of whom have been in occupation for upwards of fifteen years, knowing whether they are improving their own property or that of other persons. This state of things should be remedied as soon as possible, to effect which, I am of opinion that it would be more couducive to tho interests of the settlers if the Survey Department were at once handed over to the Genoral Government. I am in favor of setting aside large blocks of land to encourage tho locution of good settler?. To facilitate so desirable an object the land should be given them on such a system of deferred payments as would enable them to at once turn it to aocount. lam persuaded that such a system would be far more beneficial to the country, to the industrious working classes, and tend more to increaso the revenue than the present obnoxious system of selling land at uncertain intervals in large blocks and at a higli upset price. In roferenco to imiuigraiion, Buy opinion is that with ordinary inducements good settlers could bo obtained from the neighbouring colonies at little cost to the country, with some experience of colonial life, aud with sufficient cash in hand to commence operations. Alter tho land laws, apportion and survey some of tho best of your land for settlomen*. and selection, and your mugniiL-ent ohmtito and tho known fertility of the s-.nl will bring to your shores hundreds of enterprising l".-.mtli.g. It s the small farmer and the sturdy agricultural settler wo want, to develop t he ivsotin-esoi the country. On all othor publio quest ions ray view* are liberal and progressive. Everything fending to tho advancement and prosperity of the country and the welfare of my fellow citizens shall have my most earnest support I should bo prepared to aid un-l assist all local industries and to encourage the projectors in a substantial manner by grants or subsidies as far as compatible with tho interests and the limited means at the disposal of tho province. If it is the wish (as I firmly believe it to be) of tho great body of the electors of fcho province to abolish provincialism, reduce taxation, and generally to increaso the prosperity of all classes, then I place myself in your K hands, feeling assured that you have ueen^ quite enough of provincial mismanagement, and that you are fully alive to the great issues at stake in tho coming contest. W. FINNIMORE. Wanganui, 31st March. 1871.