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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 32, 8 February 1867, Page 1

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PROVINCE OF NELSON. fl ENTLEMEN— In announcing to you that it \3f is my intention to offer myself as a candidate for the position of Superintendent when that office shnll have become vacant by the retirement of Mr Sauuders, I should perhaps apologise for doing so in the absence of any formal requisition to that effect, signed by a number of the constituency. But my experience of political affairs leads me to attach but a moderate value to such documents, and I prefer to place myself unreservedly in your hands, asking only for your unpledged and unfettered support if, after carefully weighing the qualifications of the various candidates who may present themselves, you are satisfied that you would best serve the interests of the community by giving it to me. The gold-fields of the West Coast, to which we are indebted, directly or indirectly, for so considerable a portion of our revenue, will continue to call for unremitting attention on the part of the Provincial Government. The prompt, energetic, and prudent management of these goldfields by Mr Saundcrs has, as you are probably aware received my constant support as a member of the Provincial Council; and, as regards this part of the duties of the Superintendent, I should endeavor to carry out the policy which has been so ably initiated. I am however firmly convinced that the resources of the western district of the province can never be fully developed, nor the full benefit of those resources be experienced by the community, until the projected railway from Nelson to Cobdcn and Westport has been constructed. The power to give land in payment for this most important work has been granted to the Superintendent by an Act of the General Assembly, but it remains to find contractors willing to undertake its execution upon these terms. To effect this object I should, in the event of my election, devote myself heart and mind; believing as 1 do, that its accomplishment is the one thing needed to relieve the province from the comparative stagnation which has so long prevailed, and to bring greatly increased prosperity to all classes of its inhabitants. I am well aware of the difficulties which have to be faced, and of the energy, determination, and perseverance which arc required to surmount them; but I should set to work animated by the hope and belief that those difficulties can be overcome, and chat the contractors, as well as the province, would be largely benefited by the undertaking. While looking upon the West Coast _ Railway as the public work which, affecting as it does so greatlv the welfare of the province as a whole, claims the largest share of the attention of your Superintendent, there are others in which I have long felt deep interest, and which I should do my utmost to carry into execution. Amongst them are the construction of a Dry Dock or Patent Slip in Nelson Harbor; the introduction of Pure Water for the supply of the inhabitants of the City of Nelson, and the shipping of the Port, as well as for the prevention of calamitous fires ; and the erection of Bridges over the Waiaica and Ilurunui rivers. The active part which I have taken for many years past in pressing the value and importance of the'Coal-lieltls in various parts of the province upon the attention of the Provincial Government und Council, m:ikes it, I think, almost superfluous for me to assure you thai, the subject would meet with no neglect or indifference at my hands. My general political opinions must be so well knownfto most of you, thai I think it unnecessary to enter upon any expression of them in this addross; but when the resignation of Mr Sounders bus been officially announced, I shall lose no time iu visiting the various electoral districts, so as to give the whole constituency of the province the opportuuity of learning ray views upon all subjects in which they ieel au interest respecting them. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, OSWALD CURTIS. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PROVINCE OF NELSON. f~Y ENTLEMEN, — It is my intention to become O" a candidate for the Superintendentship of the Province at the approaching vacancy. lam encouraged to take this step, not only from general considerations of the very large support accorded to me at the last general election for that office, but by the direct invitation of a large body of my then friends and supporters, as well^as by numerous ronm-ists on Hie part of those who did not on that occasion give me their support. Having so recently given my views on those questions of provincial interest on which it is n«cessarv that u candidate should declare himself, I do not "now fool myself called en to repeat them. The only important question of this character which has since arisen, is tl;at of the railway from Nelson to the West Cosist:_ find here I will merely say that no efforts oi' mine shall ever be wituiiiig to the furtherance of a measure tending so incalculably in every way to the development of the various resources of the province and the increase of its prosperity. Awaiting those opportunities that will soon occur for the fuller expression of my views. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, 1624 J. W. JBARNICOAT,