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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 182, 30 June 1884, Page 3

MANAWATU ELECTION. To F. Y. Ltctiihutdce, Esq., O. M. Snklsox, Esq., and tlio oilier Electors signing the above requisition. Gentlemen, — In response to your very fluttering and gratifying request, I have great pleasure iv consenting to l»eiioniin ited as a Candidate for Manawatu at the coming election. : I shall take an early opportunity of addressing the electors at the various centres, and explaining my political views m detail. In the meantime, I may state that I am more m accord with the policy of the Atkinson Ministry than with that of any of the numerous leaders of the other fide of the present House. Though that Ministry has no doubt made mis-, takes, I believe the leading members of it have on the whole worked, honestly according to their lights for I lie good of the Colony at large, aud that especially they have tried to promote the prosperity of the country districts, by liberalising the land laws, and by their scheme for the construction of roads and bridges, the partial failure of which through want of funds is attributed to causes beyond the control of any Government. I cannot, however, agree with Mr Rolleston's projected scheme of perpetual leasing, or with what it. is how the fashion to call " the nationalization of the land." Let the Crown lands be leased on the easiest terms compatible with due provision for survey and joadmakiug, but, as under the piesent Act, let a purchasing clause always be granted after a fair proportion of 'improvement has been made by the leaseholder. The truest nationalization of the land, I hold, is to settle it with freeholders m moderately-sized blocks, trusting for revenue to the development of the resources of ithe country caused by such settlement, rather than to l'onrs extracted by a Central Government from a State tenantry . I agree generally with the Native policy of the Atkinson Ministry, and especially so with Mr Bryce?s proposal for the resumption of the pre-emptive I'ight; I am m favour of Secular Euucation, and so long as tho finances of the. Colony warrant it, of 'fre'e fmmary education, and hi any cwse of free education up lo the Fourth Standard. I should'' 'like to. see our railways managed by a non-political Board, the ,- members of which should only be: removable m the same : manner as Judges : of the Supreme Court.' Other and minor questions I will deal with when addressing the electors, face jo, face ."•"'. „ • r JEflhavethe honor tojbe elected, Fcan conscientiously say that 1 will endeavour to the best of my ability' to represent the district as a whole without bias m favour of any particular part of it, while remembering at the same time that a member is elected to r watch over the interests of the Colony at large. -, '? r Your Obedient Servant, ; D. H. MACARTHUR> \ '..'■' ! .' ■■■•.-• , - ' ' - : MR M ACARTHUR will have much pleasure m. addressing the electors of Mauawatu at the following places, on the dates men- ! tioned : — ■■■ ':r ; .. ; Pal merston, Town Hall, Monday, 30th June. ' ' Feikliug, Town Hall, Tuesday, 1 stj July. ; Halcombe, School-house, Wednes-. day, 2nd July. ■■; | Ashurst, School-house, Thursday, 3rd July. ! - Awahuri, School-house^ Fridayj 4th ' J.nly. ' • At 8 p.m. on each date. 1 Ladies', Maids' , &f Children's Ulsters JLND 4s IN HAND. M-m^.. : % ; ' ' ' ■ '.* Second Shipment now opened out XT _- ; __ ! The Bon Marche NOTICE. i MR COTTLK, Dentist^ ?can be consulted at Mr Xeary'v chemist, on Tuesday, July 8, between the houis of 10 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. 1 *, m bankruptcy; IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF WANGANUf, ' . „ (Holden at Palmerston North.) (Being a Local Court of Bankruptcy.) In the matter of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883. " j": "VrOTICE is hereby given that 1,- --[\ George Samuel Hadfield, of Foxton, m tho County of Mauawatu, settler, have this day filed m the said Court, at Palmerston North, afoiepaid, a petition to be adjudged' ia bankrupt. Dated this 30th day of June, 1884 G. S. HADFIELD. J. Herbeiw Hankins, Solicitor for the said Petitioner,, Palmerston North.