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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 201, 22 July 1884, Page 3

STEVENS & GORTON. THURSDAY, 24th JULY. AT THE AWAHURI SALE, YARDS. STEVENS & GORTON will sell as above — 10 prime beef 11 4-year bullocks 10 fat cows 50 fat wedders 160 forward wedders 350 store ewes 40 cows 10 heifers 15 2-year-old steers 5 3-year-old steers 60 mixed yearlings 10 head prime beef 11 4-y ear-old steers 150 assorted fruit trees Sale at 1 o'clock, TUESDAY, 29th JULY. DENBIGH SALE YARDS. 50 head mixed cattle 10 „ weaners 50 fat ewes Settlers please send Entries for this Sale. Sale at 1 o'clock. TO THE ELECTORS OF RANGITIKEI. • Gentlemen,— I beg to offer myself as a Candidate for the honour of representing you in* the next Parliament, and should you again* honour me with your confidence, I will use my best efforts to practically and faithfully represent your interests and those of New Zealand generally. I have the honour to be, Yours obediently, JOHN STEVENS. MANAWATU ELECTION. To F. V. ' Lrthbridge, Esq., G. M. Snelson, Esq., and rhe other Electors signing the requisition asking me to become a Candidate for the Manawatu seat. Gentlemen, — In response to yonr very flattering • and gratifying request, I have great pleasure m consenting to he nominated as a Candidate for Manuwutii 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 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 proii ote 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, fiowever, agree with Mr Rolleston's projected scheme of per± petual leasing, or with what it is now the fashion to call " the nationalization of the land." Let the Crown lands lie leased on the easiest terras compatible with due provision for survey and voadmakiug, but, as under the piesent Act, let a purchasing claxise 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 Atkinson, Ministry, and especially so with Mr Bryce's proposal for the resumption of the preemptive vigl) t. I am m tavour ot Secular Euucation, and so long 1 as the Dnances of the Colony warrant it, of free -primary education, and m any case of free education up to the Fourth Standard. I should like t» 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 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. MACAitTHUR.