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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4590, 6 December 1875, Page 3

Electoral Notices :: rr\o THE ELECTORS OP THE CITY ± OF WELLINGTON. Gentlemen; —The Evening. Post of Saturday quotes the Manawatu Times, in which I am described as a pothouse politician. ' The Times is right; my political education commenced forty-live years since.. When at eight years of age I was taken to a pothouse on Sunday evenings to listen to. the reading of the newspapers, and to discussions on the Charter, the repeal of the Corn Laws, the first Reform Bill, and other questions of the day, at a time, too, when the discussion of political matters by the working classes was viewed by the Government of the day as a crime, second only to a capital one. Are not all politician s'of the pothouse order? Messrs. Pearce and Hunter, Travers, and Gisbome, and the upper ten discuss politics at their pothouse the " club." Messieurs, the next class below them, discuss politics at their pothouse—the Empire, the Pier, or other hotels more or less respectable. In short, if any question or policy will not stand the ordeal of pothouse consideration it seldom passes through the Legislature. It was a great treat to me in listening to Mr. Travers on Saturday night.and I may as well state at once, that Messrs. Pearce and Hunter's tool—Messrs. Pearce and Hunter's votesplitting candidate—intends, to vote for Mr. Travers,and himself. But, Gentlemen, I do not endorse all Mr. Travers' opinions ; and I go much farther in many reforms. But he comes the nearest to my ideal of what a working man's candidate ought to be. Mr. Travers did not state his opinion of the income and property tax with sufficient clearness. Mr. Gisbome would commence at £l5O or £2OO per year. Very considerate of the interests of working-men is that same Mr. Gisbome, who has, as far as I can learn, been employed by—or been a member of—the Government ever since he has been in New Zealand ; consequently, he has subsisted on the taxes collected in by far the greatest measure from the workers of the colony. And he is, on retiring from office, to be pensioned. Yes, pensioned! Provided for for life, from the sweat of your brow, from your hard earnings. A Hon. Pauper after the approved style of the old country. He has, as I say, been a member of many Go-, veruments : yet has he ever introduced or advocated, or has Messrs. Pearce and Hunter ever advocated, that provision should be made by endowments or otherwise for the indigent poor, the aged widow, the fatherless children, that will in the ordinary .course.of events soon be numerous amongst us. Not they ; they have never thought of the contingency. They have made handsome profits, realised good politician piy, accumulated land and houses,and honors, have been showered on them—but one thought of providing for the poor never yet entered their; respectable heads. • Mr. Travers and Mr! Gisbome have favored us with their views on the education question, and Mr. Gisbome quoted from Mr. Pearce's speech in the House on the same subject; so that you are conversant with their opinions collectively. Naturally I shall be expected to state mine. Solomon said, " Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." That may have been perfectly true in Solomon's time, and of his own subjects, who were day, when the Christian Church is split up into some fifty or sixty .denominations, there is no other plan which so much commends itself to thinking men as that of secular eduoa-: tion by the St-ite, leaving religious instruction to be imparted by the clergy or teachers of that particular Church to which the parents of the children belong. But, Gentlemen, while I am an advocate for secular instruction alone' if paid for by the State, I say that great care should be exercised in the choice of the classbooks used in the Board schools, more especially in the choice of historical subjects. History, we know, is written by historians,, with a leaning to or a bias in favor of that particular denomination of the Christian Church to which they happen ;to belong ; and such being the case,-I can -conceive no greater iniult than that the children of Roman Catholics, for instance, should be compelled to read portions of an historical work in which the spoliation, of the Catholic Church (the Church of. their; Fathers) in the reign pf Henry "VTII. is described -as a, glorious reformation. Gentlemen, were I a Roman ;Gatholic, no child i of mine should' enter a Board school where 1 such historical readings are a part of the secular instruction imparted. Not one pennyj of the State's money should" be expended in proselytising for one sect to the detriment of another. I shall revert to, this subject at a future time. ■.. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, C. MOODY. 10 THE ELECTORS OP THE WELL LINGTON COUNTRY DISTICT. Gentlemen, — I beg to offer myself to represent you again in the House of Representatives. Questions of vital importance to the future determined in the ensuing Parliament, particularly with reference to the administration of local affairs, the financial position of the colony, and taxation. I will take an early opportuirity of ■ meeting and explaining fully to you my views on these and other subjects. ■,)■".. In the meantime, allow ma :to remain, Gentlemen, ■: , : - : Your very faithful servant, A. de B. BRANDON. Wellington, December 2, 1875. I T Y COUNCIL, ELECTION OF MAYOR. NOTICE is hereby given that an Election of Mayor for the City will take place on Wednesday, the 15th day of December next. Any person desirous of Nominating a Candidate must before .4 o'clock in the,. afternoon, of Wednesday, the Bth day of December next, deliver at the office of the Town Clerk; addressed "To the Returning Officer," a nomination paper in the prescribed form, persons duly qualified to vote at such election, and also by the person named therein as a Candidate, in token of his assent to being bo Nomination papers may be obtained at the offices' of the Council. (Signed), W.S. MOORHOUSE,, - . Returning Officer. , Wellington, 30th November, 1875. , j Public Notices. "OTICE. —The Drapery and Clothing <, Establishments of the Undersigned will i CLOSED on TUESDAY NEXT, Def cember 7th : Kirkcaldie & Stains James Smith Wilson & Richardson Casey & McDonald : Samuel W. Alcorn ' W. Munro & Co. < J. McDowell & Co. E. Wilson George Pirie A. McLean W. Clark H. Owen & Co. « m /ELLINGTON ARTILLERY BAND. W" - - The above Band will assemble at the Artillery Drill Shed on THIS (MONDAY) EVENING, at 7.30 p.m. sharp. .. ■ t ■'. ■ . By order. LOST. —On Saturday evening, in. Willisstreet, a Brindlo Bull Terrier Tup, about three months old. Answers to the name of "Nell." When lost, had a collar ™;tv. rt»o norrto «'.T TT. Mditlund; amrraver." thereon. Anyone bringing her to the office of Messrs. Brandon and Quick will be rewarded.