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Election Notices. ELECTION FOR SUPERINTENDENT. jyj*R MAC ANDREW’S Central Committee will meet This Evening, at half-past 7. SYDNEY JAMES, Secretary. TO ARCHIBALD HILSON ROSS, ESQ. SIR, — Wo the undersigned Electors in the Roslyn District, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated for the representation of said District in the General Assembly. The obstacles in the way of the settlement of the country, and the general exigencies of the times, imperatively require that the Representative of any district should be a Gentleman who will-command the respect and contldcnce of the Electors, and who, from a practical aqnaintance with local wants, will give his support to such measures only as will prove beneficial to the District and Province as a whole We are, yours, etc., Robert Bums Hugh M'Fadyeu Robert Chisholm James Robertson R. A. Lawson James Kilgour George Matthews C. Robertson, and all the others TO ROBERT BURNS, HUGH M‘FADYEN ROBERT CHISHOLM, And the other Gentlemen who signed the requisition. GENTLEMEN— I am proud to acknowledge the receipt of a requisition numerously signed by my fellow-Colonists among whom I have resided for many years, requesting me to allowmyself to be nominated a Candidate to represent the Roslyn District in the General Assembly, I covet no higher honor than the esteem of my fellow-men, and thank you cordia ly for this spontaneous manifestation of yours towards myself. As an humble member of the Civil Service, whom to malign is considered by aspirants to political honors to be the surest way to secure popularity, I thank you on behalf of that body for the inferential compliment to it, contained in the expression of your opinion, that one of their number commands the respect and confidence of a large number of the Elector’s of an important District, and is fitted to represent them in the New Zealand Parliament. The circumstances under which your request is made are peculiar, and necessitate a somewhat unusual reply. My position as a Provincial Government Officer precludes my taking any part in the discussion of political questions affecting the action of the Government, and I do not feel warranted in making the sacrifice that would enable me to do so with propriety, on the mere chance of being placed in a position where 1 could be of service to my fellow Colonists —the doing so by any one would, 1 consider, bo most convincing proof of unsuitability to fill that position ; and when I consider that the limits of your Electoral District have been, through the exertions of your late-member altered, so as to prevent the possibility of many of those who were in opposition to him at the last Election, occupying such a position on this occasion —when I remember the means which were resorted to in order to ensure success on a former occasion, I feel persuaded that unless the Electors themselves fight the battle calmly, conscientiously, and determinately, no exertions wbicli I could make would make victory certain —this much, however, I can say I am entirely opposed to the Financial Scheme of the present Colonial Governm nt as it now stands brotfulaa it is with injustice f,->w.ir i the V'idcllr Island, and, if as we are t old by some, the Railways in the North Island were, in order to secure the votes of members, scheduled only to be surveyed and not constructed at any time out of the loan, then the whole scheme is the result of unprincipled action on the part of tricky politicians, and is not wanting in injustice even to the North ; and the members who voted in favor of the measure, sanctioned a useless expenditure of public money, which will amount before the surveys are completed to no inconsiderable sum. 1 am in favor of settlement of the people on the lands—by free selection in triangulated districts, and by deferred payments of say 2s Oil per acre, per annum, for eight years; and if settlement should be effected in remote districts where the. labor of the settlers would be unsaleable, I would be prepared to alien an equivalent of labor in road making or other works to be given instead of money. Not having had anything to do with passing the Hundreds Regulation Act, 1869, or the Amendment Act, 1870, you may believe me to be in earnest when 1 say 1 -would be iu favor of their repeal, whilst to the reasonable claims of the Ruuholdeve, 1 would give the most impartial consideration. If these opinions aye in unison with those of a majority of the Electors of Roslyn—if, not- ; withstanding the impossibility of my taking any part iu the conduct of the election, you still wish to place me in nomination, I make no objection ; and if the result of the poll should place me in the position of your Representative—l shall consider it a clear indication of the path of duty, and will, without hesitation, take the past assigned to me. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, A. H. ROSS. Wanted. WANTED Known.—That D. Sampsor has purchased the business of Hanslow and JSampson, Merchant Tailors am 1 Outfitters, __ WANTED Known.—That D. Sampsoi: has opened np new and choice Goods iu Tweeds, Hats, Scarfs, Jlosiery, &c., &c, WANThD to Sell, 0000 Prussian Heroes at Is each, at S. Jacobs, late A A loses. WANTED to Sell, at a Reduction o Twenty-live per cent, a large assort ment of Workboxcs Desks Dressing Cases Multitudes Albums Ladies’ Companions. Stereoscopes and Slides. Croquet Christmas Casda playing and Conversation do Concertinas Meerschaum Pipes Gents’ Walking Sticks Scents and Perfumery Large Assortment of Toys AT JACOBS’, late MOSES’.

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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2475, 21 January 1871, Page 3

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Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2475, 21 January 1871, Page 3

Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2475, 21 January 1871, Page 3

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