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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1245, 16 July 1884, Page 3

BUSH FAB MING- MADE I EASY. Linton's Patent STOMP EXTRACTOR r E IHE above will remove the I _L LAEGEsT STUMPS bodily out of the ground with a small expenditure of power. Prices on application to THE SQUAEE, PALMERJiON NORTH. TO DONALD FRASEE ESQ. Sl'£ ) — W 8 the undersigned Elecf tors of the Manawatu District, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated aa a candidate "o represent the District m the House of Kepresentatives at the forthcoming election. We are, Dear Sir, Yours respectfully, J. E. Forster-Pratt Bernard Newcombe Alexander Ferguson J. 0. Batchelar • Kenneth McKenzie Jamea King (And 203 other names) To J. R. Forster-Pratt, Alexander Ferguson, J. O. Batchelar, Kenneth McKeuzie, James King, Bernard Newcombe, Esqrs, and the 203 other gentlemen. f^\ ENTLEMEN,— In response to \JC your very influential and flattering requisition, I have great pleasure m allowing myself to be nominated as a candidate for the honoi of representing the Manawatu District ia 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 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 an account of my stewardship. 1 am, gentlemen, Yours obediently. DONALD FBASER. To F. Y. LETHBEIDGE, Esq., G. M. SNELSON, Esq., and the other electors signing the re? quisitions, asking rue to become a candidate for the Manawatu seat. /~i ENTLEMEN, In response to VX 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. 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 Jouse. 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 colon --.t 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 Eql* lesion'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 terms compatible with due provision for survey and road 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 settle it with freeholders m moderate sized blocks, trusting for revenue to the develop.* ment of the resources of the country caused by sach settlement rather than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a State ten-> antry." v 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. lam m favour of Recular educa^ tion, and as long as the finances of the cplony warrant it, oi.' free grim? ary education, arid m any case of free education up to 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 1 will deal mth whep addressing the electors face to' face. If I have the honor to be elected, I can conscientiously say that I will endeavour to the best of my abiity to represent the district as a whole, without bias m favour of any p,artipuUr. part of it, while reniein>er.ipg at the same time that a member 18 elected to watch over itbe interests of the cplony at large. Your Obedient Servant. D. H. MAOAETHUB. TO SUBSCRIBERS AND* ADYfIR'rjSERS. ' BY to-day's mails our subscribers and advertisers will reeeire their aocounts for the quarter ending June 30. Prompt etilemems will obliae. Subwrib'-rs who usually pay m advance are reminded tt.at .- inscriptions for the current quarter are now due. W, H. SMITH, Proprietor. Dnr>y Times Office.