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Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 175, 26 November 1881, Page 1

rr\O THE ELECTORS OF MANAWA.TU DISTRICT. 1 GENTLEMEN— T have the honor to again offer myself as a Candidate for the Representation of your District. I beg, therefore, that you will continue to extend to me tha confidence which you have so generously accorded to me during so many years. I have the honor to be. Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, WALTER VV. JOTTNSTONEI Wellington, 7th October, 1881. TO THE ELECTOR{r"()P'""Tif'fii; B A NGTT ! KET ELECTORAL DISTRICT FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. /"^ENTI.EMEtf,— I beg to announce \X myself as an independent candidate, aspiring to the honor of re] resenting you in Parliament untrammelled by any party ( tics, and therefore, if honored with your confidence, free to express an unbiassed opinion up-n all questions affecting your interests. lam opposed to Provincialism, and strongly in favor of loca ! self-govern-ment with extended powers, anl hold that the administration, of waste lands of the Crown should be left in the hands of such local bodies ; thai niain roads should be constructed through: all blocks of land previously to being offered for sale ; and that endowments should be given from the Land Fund for the purpose of assisting in the construction of bye-roads. The purchase of-Native lands should be carried out with more expedition than at present, and they should be placed in the 1 market as soon after their acquisition as j possible (a system which has not hitherto obtaiued), as upon this depends tbe pro fitable settlement, and opening of the ! country. In order to establish peaceable I relations between Europeans and Natives, it is desirable that the Native title should be extisigui bed over all Native lauds, and their titles individualized (excepting j reserves sufficient for their use), the cost of which should be a first charge upon ; such lands, I am of opinion that the present system of education is too expensive, and unjust to the country settlers, who are practically debarred from deriving any bentfit from Colleges and High {Schools situated iu the large centres of population, and that primary stcular education 011I3' should be provided at the expense ot the State ; that greater power should be given local committee-', and endowments made to denominational schools under special justifiable circumstances. I hold that tbe t iriff chargeable on all I colonial products carried by rail which are intended lor export should be cousiderably less than the ordinary rai'way charges, thereby off. ring greater inducements to agricultural puisnits, the timber trade :md other colonial industries. I ap.rove of the Sjstem of aiding nominated immigrants, such as agriculturists and small eapitali'ts ; but I entirely object to the free influx of Chinese, j which the r.n.seut small poll-tax practically allows. Those people might introduce such diseases as would bt; most disastrous, and in many other ways they would be a:i undesirable adjunct to the population of this colony. in order to further facilitate trade and eommerce, I approve of establishing direct steam communication between New Zealand and Gnat Britain by subsidising an efficient line of steamers. The temperance cause will always have mj sympathy, but not as a total abstainer, for I bold that if a person cannot control his own desires he is unlikely to exercise an impartial judgment upon this and o ther important public questions. I puipose visiting all parts of the Electorate, and publicly expressing my views. Should you do me tbe honor to elect me, I shall pledge myself to honestly and faithfully serve you. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, JOHN STEVEiS'S. waTt e d jTn o w jn that R. ALLINGHAM HAS just received a large consignment of BOOTS and SHOE? of superior quality, which he is prepared to sell at prices to suit the times BOOTS and SHOES of every deacription maae to order. R. ALLINGHAM, The Square, Palmerston JXorth.