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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 197, 17 July 1884, Page 3

STEVENS & GORTON. THURSDAY, 24th JULY. AT THE AWAIIURI SALE YARDS. STEVENS & GORTON will sell as above — 10 fat cows 50 fat wedders 160 forward wedders . 1 50 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 Seeds ! Ctrass Seeds ! ! Grass Seeds ! ! ! JUST ARRIVED Ex s.s. Aorangi .and "Doric from London, Alsyke Cow Grass, White Clover, Red do, Trefoil, and Fescues, &c, &c. Also, English Rye Grass (machine dressed) from old pastures, Italian Rye, Timothy, Cocksfoot, Field Turnips, Rape, &c. New Zealand Barb Wires. Nos. 6, 7, and 8 Fencing Wires. OATS, CHAFF, COOPER'S Si.EEP DIP, Also, Few Boxes Tea, @ 16/6. N.B.— The CJovers are of the best quality obtainable m the London market this season. Special quotations for large quantities. , STEVENS & GORTON, £. Leigh, Manager. MANAWATU ELECTION. '• • /' To F. Y. Lethbridge, Esq., G-. M. Snelson, Esq., and the; other^Electors signing the requisition asking me to become a Candidate for the Manawatu seat. Gentlemen, — In response to your very flattering and gratifying request, I have great pleasure m consenting to he nominated as a Candidate for Manawatu at the coming 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 Jeaders of ihe 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 the good of the Colony at large, and that especially they have tried to proii ote the prosperity of the country districts, by liberalising the land laws, and by their scheme for the construction of roads and bridges, the partial failure of which through want of funds is attributed to causes beyond 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 l»e leased on the easiest terms compatible with due provision for survey and roadmaking, but, as under the piesent Act, let a purchasing clause always be granted after a fair proportion of improvement has been made by the leaseholder. The 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 tkiuson Ministry, and especially so with Mr Bryce's proposal for the resumption of the preemptive right. I am m tavour ot Secular Euucation, and so long as the finances of the Colony warrant it, of free primary education, and m any case of free education up to the Fourth Standard. I should like to see our railways managed by a non-political Board, the members of which should only be removable m the .«arne manner as J udges 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, I can conscientiously say that 1 will endeavour to the best of my ability to represent the district as a whole without bias m favour, of any particular part of it, while remembering at the same time that a member is elected to watch over the interests of the Colony at large. Your Obedient Servant, D. H. MACAETHUR.