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Kumara Times, Issue 541, 21 June 1878, Page 3

m GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE HOKITIKA DISTRICT. * many influential and well-known j electors of the district, I came forward to j solicit your suffrages at the forthcoming j ■election to fill the scat in the House of J Hepresentatives lately vacated by Mr i Button. j I am aware that there has been some objection raised to my candidature on the double ground of my being new to politics and a stranger to your district But if I ] nave not the advantage of experience, at! least I am free from connection with the party which has so long ruled the Colony, I and as a new political era dawns for New Zealand, it is perhaps not altogether dis- j advantageous that it should be to some ex- j tent inaugurated by new men. If lam a stranger to your district, and you nevertheless, do me the honor to elect me, you place me under the greater obligation, and have a right therefore to expect me to be the more zealous and the more devoted to the duties you wish me to perform. My views upon the prominent political •questions of the day I shall soon have an opportunity of explaining to you personally, but I may state that I am a Liberal an politics. I hold that in this country which none of ms have inherited except to the extent we Ihave inherited the rights of Britons, there are not, and should not, be allowed to be -vested rights antagonistic to the interests of the people, sueh as exist in the Old Country. The land of New Zealand should be open to the people of New Zealand, and if in the past its distribution Ms not been judicious, it is the more incumbent ooi.the Government to take care that it Is ntore fau&y apportioned in the future. * i Therefore, I am in favor of a liberal Hand Haw, taking away nothing that he legally possesses from any man, but enabling the poor and the industrious to acquire it equally with the rich. I favor she <extehsion of the principle of the sale <of Hand on deferred payments, in seasonable blocks, and I hold that all publie land should be sold hi sueh i moderate-sized parcels as to make it prac-1 - tticaTly impossible for speculators to absorb J it in vast estates. I consider that all ; dealing with land should be in broad day- ; light and so hole and corner work per- j anitted, by which any mam, however in- j can obtain any advantage over the public. Moreover,, I feel strongly that the great Iburdens incurred by the Colony -on Public Works, should, to a large extent, be born fby the properties which have acquired much additional value by their construction. Therefore I shall support the proposals of the present Government to impose a just and reasonable property tax, •estimated according to classification, but not burdening the improvements effected t>y the industrious. ] I consider thaC ©very man not criminal ! and British by birthright or naturaiisa-1 tion, has a tight to found a claim to the exercise of the franchise, upon the fact of his having crossed the ocean to make this the country of his adoption, and still more so if he is a born New Zeslander, The former -class are men who have showaa l>y the fact of their emigration that they are men of enterprise and spirit, and in the education the Colony has given, and 'will give* to the young, we have the best guarantee that they will wisely use the privileges we give them. The education of the rising generation becomes the more important when it is regarded as the safeguard to the proper use of the electoral papers. Therefore, I consider, that the State 1 should spare no effort to make the education of this Colony'the very best possible, free and open to all As all cohfcribute to the funds from which its cost is defrayed, ail have a right to share ii advantages. I shall not add more at present, except that lam a firm supporter of the present Government, and shall do my utmost to setaia them in office. I am, yours, &c, SEYMOUR THORNE GEORGE. Wellington, June 13, 1878. KUMARA HOSPITAL. TENDERS are invited by the Hospital Committee for the supply of the following articles for three months commencing Ist July : Groceries Wines, Spirits, Ale and Porter Bread Butcher Meat Milk Drugs. Tenders to l« sent in to the Secretary at his office opposite the Public Hall, on or before TUESDAY, the 25th hist., at 6 p.m. WILLIAM NICHOLSON, Secretary Kuraarn Hospital. FOR WINTER WEAr7~ AT W. KIRKPATRICK'S, Four Bales White and Coloured Blankets, Flannels, Mosgiel and Pit Plaidings, &c. FOR SALE. \NE of the most eligible SITES, ' with commodious STORE, in Dillman's Town j suitable for any class of business. Now occupied, but immediate possession will be given. Apply to T. Tennant, Butcher, Dillman's Town. :