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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 187, 7 August 1872, Page 4

va V liji'JtC Jfi X X _I 3 XC \y fe 9 GENERAL AND i | Will offer for the term of COMMENCINGSATITBDAY, JULY 2Tth, The whole of their large and vvell-assorted Stock of kILLIFEEY AND- CLOTHING. ;"■•''/ FOE CASH. ; " Ten per cent. Discount (2s. in £) •on- Marked Prices, Giving their Customers and the Put)lic generally tlie greatest and most genuine Advantages ever offered in NELSON. A*l 1 Goods marked in Plain Figures, as before. Hi V xhSM-tii JL 1 JoitiU I ; JaLijijtCDj GENEEAL DRAPERS, BRIDGE ' STREET. 1645

PETITION AGAINST thjeDISMEMBEEMENT'of the PKOJINCE. ■ TO the HONOURABLE ' the 1 , HOUSE of \ RSPRESBNTATIVES of the CDLCSSY of I?EVV ZEALAND, in ; .PARLIAMENT Assembled. „, , .'.'.'••■; : The Humble Petition of the. undersigned inhabitants of the Province of, Nelaojn, , ; Respectfully sbowetli : — That your Petitioners are. 4 infor.m^ed that it ia intended to introduced your Honourable House, a measure for the division; of; J.he Province 'i. of': Nelson into two Provinces, or to take away a large portion of the Province, in order to add the same to the County. of Westland. ; -!r ' .' > That your Petitioners believe that any such alteration "rwould inevitably lead to a large in-' crease in the "Departmental Expenditure now found sufficient for the Government of the Province, and to a corresponding diminution in the funds .now available ior' public works,' ed'uca- '•■ tion, and other important purposes, : ■ .. That your PetitionerSffartber- believe that the result of any sucli measure' would be financial embarrassment .in Jaoth of- the; portions of the territory proposed J to be divided, to. tne'Valmost. total r discontinuance -of . public, works, , to the suspensionof permanent settlement on the Gold.-. .-, fields now steadily going on, and to great dis-.. couragemen % to the cause of Education. '■••*- --: That your Petitioners also submit to your Honourable House that a great injury would be iuflicted upon the South-western portion .of the Province, by separating it from a Province, almost -free froth debt, in order to join it to a' County involved in vvery heavy liabilities, whichits resources haye r already proved -insufficient; ,tp sustain'! '-■- '''■'' •' ••■'•' '- ' Ai ' YourPeti^ioneris believe ; that good Government; 1 is not so likely to' obtain, -amongst <a .community! whose pursuits are 'almost' 'entujely^ of trpne.] character, whether those^ pursuits J be purely mining, pastoral, or~"agricul!ural,,as I..amoDgst~a-commuriityV-vchds'e1 ..amoDgst~a--commuriity V-vchds'e pursuits- 'jcoWprise^a fair ' a'd-| mixture of all threb^'as'isthecase'in'riae' existing" Province ot Nelson. : Your. Petitioners v, therefore pray that your: Honourable House will not pass am measure for the division of" the" Province of Nelsohinto two Provinces, or for the alteration of the existing Boundaries.-.;-' ' . * *■ "Hl\ And yourP/fttitioners: will ever pray, ficc.,- &qf

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