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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 110, 8 May 1872, Page 3

By order of the Mortgagee. AUCTION on SATURDAY, MAY 11, At 12 o'clock. At the Nelson Auction Rooms. ALL that Piece or Parcel of LAND, situated in Tasman -street, in the City ol Nelson, containing about Half-an-Acre, be the same more or less, being part of Sections Nos. 420 and 422 on the Plan of the said City, together wiih the DWELLING-HOUSE and OUTBUILDINGS thereon, formerly occupied by Mr. Robert AITKEN. Further particulars can be obtained from W. C. Hodgson, Esq., Trafalgar- street, or to JOHN R. MABIN. 956 Auctioneer. rpENDERS are invited for GRAVELLING JL the ROADWAY from the Gate to the House at Bishopdale. Particulars to be learnt of Mr. CHAPMAN, Gardener, Bishopdale. Tender received till SATURDAY, 11th inst. 980 FOR SALE OR TO LET. THOSE Central BUSINESS PREMISES between Healt and Son's and Peat and Thornton's, in Bkidge-stbeet. Apply to 985 MORRISON, SCLANDERS, & CO. NELSON CITY ELECTION. MR T>ICHMOND'S COMMITTEE will JA ME E T in the COMMITTEE ROOM, Trafalgar-street, THIS (Wednesday) EVENING, at Half-past 7 o'clock. 1017 Superintendent's Office, Nelson, April 29, 1872. GENERAL PUBLIC HOLIDAY. rnHE SUPERINTENDENT directs the publiJL cation of the following PROCLAMATION, declaring THURSDAY, the 9th of MAY NEXT, a PUBLIC HOLIDAY throughout the Colony. ALFRED GREENFIELD, Provincial Secretary. (l s.) G. F. Bowen, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it has pleased Almighty God to restore to health His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales from dangerous sickness, and it is fitting that Her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects in the Colony of New Zealand should manifest their sympathy with Her Majesty and the Royal Family, and should unite wifh the rest of Her Majesty's subjects in testifying their thankfulness to the Almighty for His merciful interposition in sparing the life of His Royal Highness : Now therefore, I, the Governor of New Zealand in exercise of all and every the powers vested in me in this behalf, do. by this my Proclamation, appoint THURSDAY, the NINTH day of MAY next.as a GENERAL HOLIDAY and DAY for a PUBLIC THANKSGIVING ; and do hereby invite the Clergy and Ministers of Religion of all Denominations, and all other Her Majesty's subjects in New Zealand, to observe Thursday aforesaid as a Day of Special Thanksgiving to Almighty God accordingly. Given under the hand of his Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order ot Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Comtnander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice- Admiral of the same ; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventytwo. W. GISBORNE. 935 God save the Queen ! TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF NELSON. Gentlemen — I beg to offer myself as a candidate for the seat in the General Assembly, vacated by your late representative, Mr. Lightband. lam encouraged to do this by the support which I met at the late general election ; although proposed to you by my friends at the eleventh hour, without any previous concert with myself, and during my absence on another contest. It is impossible not to see that the Colony is now in great political and financial danger, and that unless a stop is soon put to the large excess of expenditure over income not only the public credit must break down, but a taxation of persons and properties must follow, so heavy as to be ruinous to whole classes, and which will tend to depopulate the country and to drive away capital, in spite of the immigration that is being attempted. If elected I should then chiefly work in helping, Ist., To restore economy to the public service, and a proper balance to the finances; 2nd., To give greater independence to Parliament by a proper Disqualification Actj 3rd., To introduce prudence and calculation into the public enterprises by protecting them against scrambling and baste in their adoption, and waste and jobbery in carrying out; 4th., To recover control for .the Legislature and the opportunity of criticism for the public over the plans for immigration , — placing them under such management and such restrictions as may guard the present colonists as well as the new-comers from the hardships that attend and follow ill-advised wholesale importations of people. I should exert myself, also, to secure your present liberal system of public education against the dangers that now threaten it, and to extend its benefits to the rest of the colony; and I should be a hearty supporter of all legislation tending to social improvements. I hare the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, J. C. RICHMOND. College Hill, Nelson April 18th, 1872. 88