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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 198, 18 July 1884, Page 3

STEVENS & GORTON. THURSDAY, 24th JULY. AT THE AWAIIURI SALE j YARDS. STEVENS & GORTON will sell as above — 10 fat cows 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 Seeds ! Grass 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, <feo. New Zealand Barb Wires. Nos. 6, 7, and 8 Fencing Wires. OATS, CHAFF, COOPER'S S.-EtfP DIP, Also, Few Boxes Tea, @ 16/6. N.B.— The Clovers are of the best quality obtainable iv the London market this season. Special quotations for large quantities. STEVENS & GORTON, R. Leigh, Manager. MANAWATU ELECTION. , To F. Y. LHTHBRrnoE, Esq., G. M. Snelso^, Esq.,, and tins other Elee-toi-s signing the i equitation asking, me to become a Candidate for the Manawatu seat. Gentlemen, — In response to your very fluttering and gratifying request, I have great pleasure iv consenting to benomin ted as a Candidate for Manawatu at the coming election. ■-•.-• I shall take 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 1 am. 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 the good of the Colony at large, and that especially they have tried to pronote the prosperity of the country districts, by liberalising the land law*, 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 be leased on the easiest terms compatible with dwe provision for survey and roadtuaking, but, as under the piesent . Act, let a purchasing clause always bo granted after a fair proportion of im. provoinent has been made by the leaseholder. The truest nationalization of the land, I hold, is to settle it with freeholders m moderately^ized blocks, trusting for revenue to the development of the resources of the country caused by such settlement, rather than to rents extracted by a j Central Government from a State teuimtrv I agree generally with the Native policy of the Atkinson Ministry, and especially so with Mr Bryce's proposal for the resumption of the pre eruptive right. • I am m favour ofc Secular Euucation, and so long as the .finances of the Colony warrant it, of free pnvuiry 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 same manner as J udges of the Supreme Court. Other and minor questions I will deal with when addressing the elector* 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 ivmetnbeiing at tho same lime that a member is eh-cted to watch over the interests of the Colony at large. Your. Obedient Servant, D. H. MACABTHUR.