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Funeral Notice rnHB friends of JOEL EBDEN are reJL spectfully requested to attend his funeral, which will leave his father’s residence, Stoke's Valley, Lower Hutt, at 3 p.m. on TUESDAY, 19th, 1878. JOHN EDWARDS, Undertaker. Electoral Notices rp 0 TH E 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 bo, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, EDWARD PEARCE. Wellington, Jan. 25, 1878. rno THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY JL 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 tor 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 his leaving for New Zealand in 1 His views are entirely in accord with those of the Liberal party in Parliament, and therefore, if elected, he will give his hearty support and co-operation to Sir George Grey’s Ministry. Mr. Fox’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 liceused houses, but to improve them; to make them less of drinking saloons, and more of accomodation houses, aud by suitable arrangements convert them into club-like centres of intelligence aud 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’KSTRANGE BARTON. February 5, 1878. rO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF WELLINGTON. Gentlemen, —The only objection the Press have to urge against my father’s candidature is “ that it is a farce,” by which doubtless they wish to convey thafhe is a person of so little note that his nomination would be an insult to the electors. How can those journalists so ignore the facts ? 1. Are they ignorant that Mr. Barton was for years a member for the City of Melbourne ? Surely, Melbourne is not a less important constituency than Wellington ? 2. Are they ignorant that Mr. Barton represented Dunedin in the Otago Provincial Council ? Surely, Dunedin is an important constituency. 3. Are they ignorant of his position at the Bar ? They themselves acknowledge his ability as a speaker, the soundness of his political principles (with which they say no fault can be found), his integrity and amiability of character. Can higher qualifications than these exist in any Parliamentary candidate ? Elbotoks ! This is a battle of principle, not of persons. It is your own battle as much as it is my father's. I ask you not to allow your votes to be affected by the fact that my father’s imprisonment has prevented him from making a personal canvass, and has deprived him of the advantage of addressing you in a public meeting. Do net be misled by the assertion that he has only to apologise to the Judges, and be released at once. Apology would mean slavery. It would nullify all my father has done and suffered. It would mean that he could never again plead in these Courts, and succeed for his client. It would mean ruin to them, and dishonor to himself. Finally, it would mean that those who have so long and so earnestly striven to drive him from the country should at last succeed. Tiie land rings, the contractors’ rings, the judicial rings, and all the other rings would triumph iu such apology. They have all met him iu the Courts, and they dread to meet him iu the Parliament. I am, gentlemen, Your Most Obedient Servant, ELLIOT L’ESTRANGE BARTON. Feb. 15th, 1878. Tin O’ THE ELECTORS H 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 present election. I had hoped that Mr. Pearce would have been prepared to support Sir George 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 iu the community from being either misrepresented or unrepresented. I am an advocate for such a change iu the Customs' duties ns 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 laud tax levied upon all properties, say, above 300 acres of agricultural and 600 acres of pastoral laud. Every facility should be afforded, by a system of deferred payments aud otherwise, to settle the waste lands of the colony with a numerous yeomanry, aud to this end a liberal land law, administered by popularly constituted Boards, is still required. I am iu 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, aud among these I assign a prominent place to the construction of the Wellington and Mastertou railway as a means of speedy communication between the city aud the fertile valley of the Wairarapa. 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 tho 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. M' Security. LEND on li'reehold G. P. POWLES, Hunter-street JOCKEY CLUB. NOTICE is hereby given that the Wellington Jockey Club will not receive entries for the Wellington Derby for the year 1880. By order of tho Stewards. 3 A. SCALES, Secretary, Wellington, February 9, 1878.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5274, 18 February 1878, Page 3

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Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5274, 18 February 1878, Page 3

Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5274, 18 February 1878, Page 3

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