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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 195, 16 July 1884, Page 3

STEVENS & GORTON. THURSDAY, 24-tn JULY. AT THE AWAHURI SALE YARDS. STEVENS & GORTON will sell as above — 10 head beef 50 fat wedders ' 160 forward wedders 150 store ewes 40 cows 10 heifers 15 2-year-old steers 5 3-year-old steers 60 mixed yearlings 150 assorted fruit trees Sale at 1 o'clock, Grass Meeds ! Grass Seeds ! ! Grass Seeds m TCJST ARRIVED Ex s.s. Aorangi and Doric from London, Alayke Cow Grass, White Clover, Red do, Trefoil, and Fescues, <fee., &c. Also, English Rye Grass (machine dressed) from old pastures, Italian Ryo, Timothy, Cocksfoot, Field Turnips, Rape, <fee New Zealand Barb Wires. Nos. 6, 7, and 8 Fencing Wires. OATS, CHAFF, COOPER'S S.'EEP DIP, Also, Few Boxes Tea, @ 16/6. N.B.— The Clovers are of the best quality obtainable m the London market this season. Special quotations for large quantities. STEVENS & GORTON, R. Leigh, Manager. MANAWATU ELECTION. To F. Y. Lethbridge, Esq., G. M. Snelson, Esq., and chy. other Electors signing the requisition asking me to become a Candidate lor the Manawatu seat. Gentlemen, — „ ' In response to your very flattering' and gratifying request, I have great pleasure m consenting to be nominated ais a Candidate for Manawatu at the comiug election. I shall lake 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 urn more m accord with the policy . of the Atkinson Ministry than with that of any of the numerous leaders of the 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 ihe good of the Colony at large, and that especially they have tried toproii ote the prosperity of the country districts, by liberalising the land law^i, and by their scheme for the construction of roads and bridges, the partial failure of which, through want of funds is attributed to causes beyoud the control of any Government, 1 cannot, however, agree with Mr Rolleston'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 proportion of improvement has been made by the leaseholder. Tbe truest nationalization of the land, I hold, is to settle it with freeholders m moderately-sized blocks, trusting for revenue to the development of the resources of the country caused by such settlement, rather than to rents extracted by a Central Government from a State tenantry ' > I agree generally with the Native policy of the A tkinson Ministry, and especially so with Mr Bryce's proposal for the resumption of the pre eruptive right. I am m favour 6t Secular Euucation, and so long as tho finances of the Colony warrant it, of free primary education, and m any case of free education up to the Fourth Standard. I should likf* to see our railways managed by a non-politicnl Board, the members 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 lace to face . If I have the honor to be elected, J can conscientiously say that I will endeavour to the best of ihy ability to represent the district as a whole without bias iv favour of any particular part of it, while remembering, at the same lime that a member is elected to watch ovw the interests of the Colony at huge. Your Obedient Servant, D. H. MACAkTHtLR.