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Kumara Times, Issue 542, 22 June 1878, Page 3

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE HOKITIKA DISTRICT. Gentlemen —At the request of many influential and well-known electors of the district, I came forward to solicit your suffrages at the forthcoming election to fill the seat in the House of Representatives lately vacated by Mr Button. 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 have not the advantage of experience, at least I am free from connection with the party which has so long ruled the Colony, and as a new political era dawns for New Zealand, it is perhaps not altogether dis-, advantageous that-it should be to some extent inaugurated by new men. If .1 am .a stranger to your district, and you nevertheless, do me the honor to elect me, you place roe under the greater obligation, and nave 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 in politics., 1 hold that in this country which none of us have inherited except to the extent we have inherited the rights of Britons, there are not, and should not, be allowed to be vested rights antagonistic to the interest of the people, such,, as exist in the Old Country. The land of New Zealand should be open 10 the people of New Zealand, and if in the past its; distribution Las not been judicious, it is the more incumbent on the Government to take care that it is more fairly apportioned in the future. Therefore, I am in favor of a liberal : land law, taking away nothing that he legally possesses from any man, but enabl- j ing the poor and the industrious to acquire it equally with the rich. I favor the extension of the principle of the sale ,of land on deferred payments, in reasonable blocks, and I' hold that all public " land should be sold in such moderate-sized parcels as to make it practically impossible for speculators, to absorb it in vast estates. I consider. that all dealing with land should be in broad daylight and no hole and comer work per- j mitted, by which any man, however in- ; fluential, can obtain any advantage over the public. Moreover, I feel strongly that the great burdens incurred by the Colony on Public Works, should, to a large extent, be bora by the properties vHiich 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 by the industrious. I consider that every man not criminal ! and British by birthright or naturalise- ; tion, has a right, 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 bom New Zealander. The-former class are men who have shown by 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 should spare no effort to make the education of this Colony the very best possible, free and Open to all. As all contribute to the funds from which its cost is defrayed, all have a right to share is advantages. I shall not add more at present, ‘except that lam a firm supporter of the present Government, and shall do my utmost to retain them in office. I am, yours, &c., SEYMOUR THORNE GEORGE. Wellington, June 13, 1878. KUMARA HOSPITAL. TEN DERS are invited by the Hospital Omninituv for the supply of the following articles lor three months commencing Ist July : Groceries , ' Wines, Spirits, Ale and Porter .Bread'.. Butcher Meat Milk Drugs. Tenders to Be sent in to the Secretary at his office opposiie the Public' Hall, on or before TUESDAY, the 25th inst., at 6 p.m, WILLIAM NICHOLSON, Secretary Kumara Hospital.

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