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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1243, 14 July 1884, Page 3

TO DONALD FRASER ESQ. SIX, — We the undersigned KW<tors of the Manawatu District, request that you will allow | yourself to be nominated aa a candidate to represent the District m the House of Representatives at the forthcoming election. We are, Dear Sir, Yours respectfully, J. R. Forster-Pratt Bernard Newcombe Alexander Ferguson J. 0. Batch elar Kenneth McKenzie James King (And 208 other names) To J. R. Forster-Pratt, Alexander Ferguson, J. O.Batchelar, Kenneth McKeuzie, James Kiag, Bernard Newcombe, Esqrs, and *he 203 other gentlemen. f^ ENTLEMEN,— In response to \JC' your very iuflucntial and flattering requisition, I have great pleasure m allowing myself to be nominated as a candidate for the honoi of representing the Manawatu , District m Parliament. It is my intention to meet the electors of j this Distiict as often as it is possible before the election day and at not only the principal townships, but also the various ridings 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 M an account of my stewardship. . .1 am, gentlemen, .'... Yours obediently. DONALD FRASER, MR DONALD FRASER will address the electors of the Manawatu as follows : — School House Stoney Creek Monday 14th 7 p.m. School House Taonui on Railway Line, Tuesday 15th 7 p.m. ;^ July 4th, 1884 To F. Y. LETHBRIDGE, Essq,, G, ! M. SNEI-SON, Esq., and the . other electors signing the requisitions, asking me to beoome a candidate for the Manawatu ■ seat. /GENTLEMEN, In response to VUT your very flattering and gratifying request I have great pleasure m consenting to be nominated 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. j In the meantime I may state. that 1 1 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 jJouse. 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, for the good of the colony at large, and 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 attributable to causes beyond the control of any Government. I cannot, however; ' agree' with Mr Rol« lesfcon's projected 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 tertpjs compatible with d.^e provision for survey and. road 1 'making, but as under the present Act let a purchasing clause always be granted alter a fair pro* portion of improvement has been made. The truest nationalisation of the land. I hold, is to. setitle it \?itji freeholders m moderate siaed blocks, trusting fox reyenue to the develop* m.cut of the resources of the country =• caused by- such " settlement : rather : than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a State ten* i antry. , ./■ .• 'V; ■ l 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. lam m favour of Recular education, and as iong as the finances of the colony warrant it, of free prim* ary education, and m any case of free education up to the fourth standard. I should like to see our raily^ys managed by a. rqii political Board, the members of -vvliich. should only* be rembvaible m the same manner as, ; Judges of the Supreme Court. Other and minor questions I will deal with when addressing the electors face to face. ,If I have the honor to be elected, I can conscientiously .say that I will endeavour to the b.es. fc pf- my apijit^ 'to represent; thp district as a whole-i witliqiit'bias in' favbur : oif : any' pat-: ficular pdrt of it, "while, remembering at the saipae time that a. i^eniber to watch over the interests of the cplony at large. . : - Your Obedient Servant. D. H. MACARTHUR. W.ANDEESON, ?4L MEPvSTUN' : NORTH. Begs to Tiotify that he has removed to thoie premises m tin- Square, two doors from the Eea^y Money Store, where he has opened out . A CrJQICE ASSORTMENT Of Polish; a^OTGHIAND c,olq>haV, TWEEDS. ■ W. A. al=o desirep to thank his oust >- m-rs for thi' liberal support hitherto nccorHed to him, and to assure them that ac bifore notliing will be warning on his i art to Eirß satisfactio", a s legards quaii/y, workmanship and prices. SUITS as usual from £4 10s— Trousers