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New Zealand Mail, Issue 12, 15 April 1871, Page 11

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. —IHE PRICE of this Journal will be 5s per quarter, paid in advance, or 6s 6d if booked.' Any person raising a club of ten Subscribers will receive eleven copies of the paper for 40s. For a club of five, six papers will be forwarded for 25s a quarter. Intending subscribers are respectfully requested, to forward their addresses without delay. THOMAS M'KENZIE, Proprietor. TQ THE ELECTORS PROVINCE OE WELLINGTON. " ENTLEMEN,—At the request of ajfarge number of my. fellow settlers I have consented to come forward and contest the election for the Superintendency of the province. As it is desirable that you should become acquainted with my sentiments on the present position of affairs, I hasten to lay them before you. You are aware that I have for the last ten years been opposed to Provincialism, and stand pledged, if elected, to use my utmost exertions to abolish, the system. I should be in favor of Country Boards and Municipal Councils with extended powers, to carry out which special legislation would be necessary. I hold that the more you localise the governing power the greater the benefit derivable. I look on this principle as more conducive to the interests of the great mass of the people, both in town and country, as you confer on them the power of managing their own local affairs on the spot, for which they must be infinitely more competent, as knowing the special and peculiar circumstances of each case as it arises, and from being located in the vicinity and interested as holders of property and bona fide settlers than persons in ojfeher parts of the province, legislating at a "distance and not affected except in a general way. The surveys are in a disgracefully backward state, some 550,000 acres having up to the present time been sold without the purchasers, man/ of whom have been in occupation for upwards of fifteen years, knowing whether they are improving their own property or that •of other persons. This state of things should be remedied as soon as possible, to effect which lam of opinion that it would be more con•ducive to the interests of the settlers if the •Survey Department were at once handed over ;to the General Government. I am in favor of setting aside large blocks (ofland to encourage the location of good •settlers. To facilitate so desirable an object ;the land should be given them on such a system of deferred payments as would enable them to at once turn it to account. lam persuaded that such a system would be far more beneficial to the country, to the industrious working classes, and tend more to increase the revenue than the present obnoxious system of selling land at uncertain intervals in large blocks and at a high upset price. In reference to immigration, my opinion is that with ordinary inducements good settlers could be obtained from the neighbouring colonies at little cost to the country, with some »experience of colonial life, and with sufficient cash in hand to commence operations. Alter >the land laws, apportion and survey some of \the best of your land for settlement and selection, and your magnificent climate and the known fertility of the soil will bring to your shores hundreds of enterprising: families. It s the small farmer and the sturdy agricultural settler we want to develop the resources of the country. On all other public questions my views are liberal and progressive. Everything tending to the advancement and prosperity of the country and the welfare of my fellow citizens shall have my most earnest support. I should be prepared to aid and assist all local industries and to encourage the projectors in a substantial manner by grants or subsidies as far as compatible with the interests and the limited means at the disposal of the province. * If it is the wish (as I firmly believe it to be) of the great body of the electors of the province to abolish provincialism, reduce taxation, and generally to increase the prosperity of all classes, then I place myself in your hands, feeling assured that you have seen ■ quite enough of provincial mismanagement, and that you are fully alive to the great issues at stake in the coming contest. W. EINNIMORE. Wanganui, 31st March. 1871. THE NEW ZEALAND MAIL. CHAIRMEN AND CLERKS OF ROAD BOARDS are requested to send for insertion in the above journal brief minutes or reports of their proceedings. Advertisements relative to road district tenders for road-making and repairs, and all other notifications required to be published in a newspaper wil,l be inserted at the low charge of 2s 6d per inch for the first insertion, and half-price* for every subsequent insertion in the New Zealand Mail. Independent and New Zealand Mail Office Willi! street. -