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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1234, 3 July 1884, Page 3

TO^NIGH^ POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT. TjIORESTERS' HALL. THURSDAY, JULY 3rd. GREAT SUCCESS. GRAND CH\NGE OF PRO* GRAMME, Introducing THE BRITISH SAILOR AND "FOLLY," To conclude with the Burlesque of LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT. Georgie Smitfason IN HEB WONDERFUL ENTERTAINMENT consisting of MUSIC, MIRTH, & MIMICRY.

TO DONALD FRASER ESQ. SIR, — We the undersigned Elecf tors of the Manawatu Dis** trict, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated as a candidate to represent the District m the House of Bepresentatives at the forthcoming election. We are, Dear Sir, Yours respectfully, J. R. Forster-Pratt Bernard Newcombe Alexander Ferguson J. 0. Batchelar Kenneth McKenzie James King (And 203 other names) . To J. R. Forster-Pratfc, Alexander Ferguson, J. O. Batchelar, Kenneth McKeuzie, James King, Bernard Newcombe!, Esqrs, and the 203 other gentlemen. GENTLEMEN,— In response to your very iuflucntial and flattering requisition, I have great pleasure m allowing myself to be nominated as a candidate lor the honoi of representing the Manawatu District m Parliament. It is my intention to meet the electors of this Distiict as often as it is possible before the election day and at not only the principal townships, but also the various ridiugs of the County m order to express my views upon the different important points. I may say that if I have the honor to be elected your representative, I will faithfully work for the good of your district and the whole colony, and be at all times ready to render to you an account of my [ stewardship. i 1 am, gentlemen, Yours obediently. DONALD ERASER, To F. Y. LETHBRIDGE, Esq., G. ' M. SNELSON, Esq., and the other electors signing the requisitions, asking me to become a candidate for the Manawatu seat. GENTLEMEN, In response to your very flattering and gratifying request I have great pleasure m | consenting to be nominated as a canI didate for Manawatu at tho coming I election. I shall take an early opportunity Qf agdressingr the electors, at the various centres, and explaining my I 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 on the other side of the present House. Though that Ministry has no doubt made mistakes I believe the leading members of it have on the whole worked honestly .according to their lights, fpr tjhe §rpqd of the colony at large, ancl that espeGially they have tried ' -tp ' j>romoie : ! ihe jwbsperatjr of 'thfe : 'qpuntry districts by liberalising the lan§ laws.' ancl by their scheme fpr the cpnstn-ction pf rpadsj and. j*iricJgos, ? the •payt^al -jailure pf which through want of funds is attributable to causes beyond the control of any Government. I cannot, however, agree with Mr RoK leston'sprojected scheme of perpetual leasing, or with what it is now the fashion to call the nationalization of the land. Let the Crown lands be leased on the easiest terms compatible with due provision road- •"pjaking'^'but ?; as undei* the present Act let a/purchaahgclause always be granted after a fah; proportion of improvement has leen. made. The truest nationalisation pf the ian<|, I hpldi, is to settle it with freeholders m moderate sized; blocks, trusting for revenue to the develop* n-ient of the resources of the country caused by such settlement rather than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a State ten-.' antry. 1 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 right, I a?u iu'faypur pf secular, education i ahfl as long as the finances of the colony warrant it, of fyee prim* wry. education, and m any case pf free education up tp the fpurth 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 whpn addressing the elep*; tors face' to face. '• -7 '. '] ' \ ' i'ifLhave the honor to be elepted, I can conscientiously say that I will endeavour tp the best pf my ab,iHtv to represent the digfoqpt *"•.*$ a whole, wij-hOvit bias m favour of any particular part of it, while remembering at the same time that a mernbei is elected to watch oyer the interests of the colouy at large. Your Obedient Servant, D. H. MACARTHUR.

MR MACARTHUR will address the Electors of Manawatu at the following places on the dates named :— Ashurst, School, Thursday, 3rd July, S a.m. Awahuri, School, Friday, 4th J»ly, 8 p.na.