TO THE ELECTORS FOR THE GOLDFILLDS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 255, 15 March 1867, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS FOR THE GOLDFILLDS.

GFKTLEMEjS",—It is my intention to solicit your suffrages at the ensuing election, i beg therefore to p'ace before you my views on the leading questions of the day. lam fully convinced that the mi ner.s are the heaviest taxed section of th< community, I will therefore sti'ongly advo' catc the total abolition of th-j Hold duty and the reduction of Miner:; Fight to tei shillings. lam an advocate for separa tlon from the Northern Island, both fin'an cial and legislative (I may say I I.are a! ways bcen)and for freeing the Middle Is laiul'from any further liability hj IS'atrn affairs, and to secure to the Province o 'Hago, a control over, and the benefit o her own Revenue. I am in favor of carrying out in thci wholeness and integrity, the regulation: for placing the mining population upoi the agricultural lands within the Goldfields and in order to put that desirable objec into practical operation, the great desidc ra'iim, the cancelling of the runs in tli immeliate vicinity of the Gold-fields sha' receive my attention and vigorous advoca cy lam in favor of completing the mail • Trunk roads of the Province, and of con structing roads to the Various outlyin • districts. lam in favor of revising tli ■ Gold-fields Act, in order to make it intel • ligible to the miners. lam in favor o abolishing the OAicc of Secretary to tli . Gold-fields Department, and having ir 1 stead, a Minister of Mines, lam in f< I vor of instituting on all the Gold-Geld; 1 Courts of Appeal from Wardens decision; Having already verbally and at som length made known my views to seven > portions of the Electors and intendin