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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5273, 16 February 1878, Page 3

Electoral Notices IN pursuance of the Regulation of Elections Act, 1870, I, James Coutts Crawford, Esq., Returning Officer for the Electoral District of City of Wellington, do hereby give notice that by virtue of a writ bearing date the seventh day of February, 1878, under the public seal of the colony, an election will be held for the return of a qualified person to serve as member of the House of Representatives for the said Electoral District, and that the Nomination of Candidates will take place at the Resident Magistrate's Court House, Wellington, at nooA on the SIXTEENTH day" of FEBRUARY, 1878 ; and that the Poll, if necessary, will be taken on the EIGHTEENTH day of FEBRUARY, 1878. JAMES COUTTS CRAWFORD, Returning Officer. The following are Polling Places for the Electoral District of City of Wellington:— The Resident Magistrate’s Court House, Wellington. The (late) Public Market Place of Messrs. Bethune and Hunter. JAMES COUTTS CRAWFORD, Returning Officer. rjlO THE ELECTORS or THE CITY OF WELLINGTON. Gentlemen, —Mr. Travers having resigned his seat in Parliament as one of your members, I have the honor to offer myself as a candidate to fill the vacancy. If you think I can be of service to you, and see fit to re-elect me to the position of one of your representatives, I shall as heretofore do my best to prove myself worthy of your confidence, I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, EDWARD PEARCE. Wellington, Jan. 25, 1878. 0 THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF WELLINGTON. Gentlemen, —I beg to announce that my father is a candidate for your suffrages at the forthcoming election of a member to represent this city in Parliament. My father’s political opinions are those of an advanced Liberal ; he has been for twentytwo years identified with Liberalism. He was one of the originators of the Melbourne Land League, and sat as member for the democratic constituency of North Melbourne up to the time of hia leaving for New Zealand in 1862. His views are entirely in accord with those of the Liberal party in Parliament, and therefore, if elected, lie will give his hearty support and co-operation to Sir George Grey’s Ministry. Mr. Pox’s Local Option Bill is, in my father’s opinion, an effort in the right direction, and calculated to raise the tone and better the condition of the community. He thinks that the principle of that Bill, viz., that the people should have a voice in the matter, is a just one, and that the result would probably be not, perhaps, to diminish the number of licensed houses, but to improve them; to make them less of drinking saloons, and more of accomodation houses, and by suitable arrangements convert them into club-like centres of intelligence and rational intercourse. With this view, my father would concur in Mr. Fox’s Bill, or any similar measure. May I be permitted to say that the member for Wellington ought to be a man who can effectively enunciate the views of his constituents. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, ELLIOT L’ESTRANGE BARTON. , February 5, 1878. 0~ THE E L E~(fT olTs OP THE CITY OF WELLINGTON. Gentlemen, —At the request of a numerous body of my fellow-citizens I have consented, at the latest moment, to allow myself to be nominated as a candidate for your suffrages at the presert election. I had hoped that Mr. Pearce would have been prepared to support Sir G orge Grey, in which case a contest would have been unnecessary ; but as he has distinctly declined to do so, it becomes imperative to take some means to prevent a large class in the community from being either misrepresented or unrepresented. I am an advocate for snob a change in the Customs’ duties as shall at once equitably adjust the incidence of this tax, and at the same time render the necessaries of life free of duty. The deficit caused by the repeal of certain of these duties should be made up by a land tax levied upon all properties, say, above 300 acres of agricultural and 600 acres of pastoral land. Every facility should be afforded, by a system of deferred payments and otherwise, to settle the waste lands of the colony with a numerous yeomanry, and to this end a liberal land law, administered by popularly constituted Boards, is still required. I am in favor of a readjustment of electoral districts, and an extension of the franchise. It is of the utmost importance that reproductive public works should be carried to completion, and among these I assign a prominent place to the construction of the Wellington 7id Mastertou railway as a means of speedy communicaiion between the city and the fertile va l ley of the Wairarapa. I My interest in the municipal affairs of the city of Wellington is sufficiently well known to render any reference to this subject unnecessary. I am thus a supporter of the policy of Sir George Grey, whose disinterested efforts in the popular cause entitle him, as it appears to me, to the support of the entire public. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, WILLIAM HUTCHISON. Conveyances Hast well, m agar a, & co.’s NEW TIME TABLE FOR COBB & CO.’S MAIL COACHES. On and after Feb. 4, 1873. N.B.—Extra coaches may be. engaged on the ' ... shortest notice for special occasions, ; but the above TABLE will supply ; ! ALL the regular traffic. ’ .Miscellaneous ELLINGTON AND MASTERTON RAILWAY. Messrs. 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