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Free Lance, Volume VI, Issue 264, 22 July 1905, Page 9

THE ROYAL BRINSMEAD PIANOS. His Majesty's Piano! The MJuaicaans' Piano J The Premier Piano of the World! Trinity College Examiner says: — "I have pleasiuire in stating that the BRINSMEAD PIANO gave every satisfaction! at the Examination. In. fact, NO BETTER could have been used. " (Signed) W. CRESER, "Mus. Doc, Oxon." CHAS. BEGG AND CO., LTD. Sole Agents. 77. WILLIS-STREET.

TO THE ELECTORS OF MANAWATU. T ADIES AND GENTLEMEN,— In anI 1 nouncing my candidature as an Independent Liberal for this important Electorate at the forthcoming November election, and in soliciting your suffrages on that occasion, I do so labouring under one disadvantage. Unlike some of my opponents, I have not previously been a member of the House of Representatives, and if you do me the honour to accept my services at the November election, you have to take me to a certain extent on trust. But, Ladies and Gentlemen, to every thing there must be a beginning. The vacancies left by death and resignation could never in the long run be filled up if the newcomers were for ever refused a hearing and a trial. What, therefore, I have to seek to convince you of, since I have no past services to plead, is that among newcomers I need not be rankas unworthy of your trust and confidence. I wish to impress on the electors that I support the great bulk of the Government's policy, but I reserve to myself the right of voting independently of cause or party. In my coming address, which will take place shortly throughout the electorate, it will be patent to you what are the several planks of my platform. I may here state that I fully recognise that the future government of this Colony requires indisputable energy and progressive enterprise combined with prudence and economy. My qualifications for the position of your representative, apart from the right of every elector to offer himself as a candidate for your suffrages, are, I venture to hope, sufficient. For many years I have occupied responsible positions in the New Zealand Civil Service, ending with the appointment of Government Life Insurance Commissioner, and I have since held high business appointments in London and New York. This experience, it cannot be disputed, must fit its subject for dealing in a spirit of forethought with questions of legislative and administrative measures conducive to the benefit of the Manawatu electorate and of the colony as a whole. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, F. W. FRANKLAND.