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Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1247, 18 July 1884, Page 3

|EUSH JPABMINO- MADE { EASY. Linton's Patent STUMP EXTRACTOR f I THE above will remove the JL LARGEsT STUMPS bodily out of the ground with a small expenditure of power. Prices on application to THE SQUARE, PALMER3TON NORTH. TO DONALD FRASER ESQ. SIR,— We the undersigned Elecn tors of the Maaawatu District, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated as 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. Batchelar KeDneth McKenzie James King (And 208. other; names) To J. R." Eoreter-Pratt, Alexander Ferguson,- J. 0. Batchelar, Kenneth McKenzie, James King, Bernard Newcombe, Esqrsj and the 203 other gentlemen. /^\ ENTLEMEN,— In response to vIX your very iu Sciential and flattering requisition, I have great pleasure m allowing nvyselt to be nominated as a candidate toe the honoi of representing the Manawatu District m Parliament. It is my intention to meet the electors of this Distiicb 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 FRASER. To F. Y. LETHBRIDGE, Esq., G. M. SNBLSON; Esq., and the other electors signing tbe requisitions, asking me to become ; a candidate for the Manawatu seat. /GENTLEMEN, In response to VU" your very flattering and gratifying request I have great pleasure m consenting to be nominated as a can-, didate for Manawatu at tho 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 lon tlje 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, for tne 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 can* not, however, agree with Mr Ral* , legtpn'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 after 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 develops ment of the resources of the country caused by such settlement rather than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a State tens 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 am m favour of necular 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 ?Qurts standard! '■$ shoiild like to see our railways managed' by a non- political Boards pie member's 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 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 particular part of it, while remembering at the same time that a member is elected to watch over the interests of the colony at large. Your Obedient Servant. D. H. MACARTHUR. TO SUBSCRIBERS AND ADVER- ;■< •••■ 'USERS. BY to-day's tnails our subscribers and advertisers will receive their accounts for the quarter ending June 30. Prompt ettlements will obliae. Subscribers who usual'y pay m advance are reminded < tltat subscriptions for the current quarter are now due. W. H. SMITH, Proprietor. Daily Times Office. *' July 5, 1884.