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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 57, 11 October 1864, Page 1

Election Notices, r once handed over, the Province, as in the case of the railway, being reimbursed for its outlay. f The present Education Ordinance is most unjust in its working. The assessment is altogether on a wrong basis, and individual cases of hardship under it are common. The means of educating his children should be placed within the reach of ! every man ; but I believe that the necessary funds for a general system of tuition should be apportioned from the ordinary revenue. The Roads Ordinance is defective in its provisions. It appears to me that the Government should, as at present, make and maintain trunk lines of road, and that bye-roads should be made and maintained by the settlers in the districts through which they pass, but roads merely leading to private estates should be made only by the parties directly interested. The present state of the East Road retards the settlement and development of your district, but in consequence of an empty exchequer there is little hope of speedy improvement. I would, however, at the earliest opportunity bring the subject under the notice of the Council, and be prepared to Bee justice done. I am not opposed to the theory of assisted immigration, but undev the present circumstances of the Province, I should bo unwilling to see any public funds appropriated to such an object. I should, if elected, endeavor to keep the Provincial expenditure within the Provincial income. No Province should in future be allowed to borrow on its own security. The power of contracting a debt should be confined to the General Government, which should borrow, and distribute to the Provinces according to the requirements of each, and the security which each was in a position to offer. It isnecessarythat the Provincial Council should possess control over the Superintendent in his expenditure of Provincial moneys. The Council can place an efficient check on his actions by resolution, to tho effect that they will recognise no unauthorised expenditure, thereby making the Superintendent personally responsible. Thanking you for the honor you have done me, I remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, MATTHEW HOLMES. TO J. CEEEAE, ESQ. SIR, — We, the undersigned Electors of RIVERTON, respectfully request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination as a CANDIDATE for the REPRESENTATION of that DISTRICT, and pledge ourselves to use our best exertions to secure your return. Riverton, sth October, 1864. J. P. TAYLOR. W. H. NURSE. H. A. BROCK. JNO. CAMPBELL. ALFRED UASSILS. A. CLULEE. SAML. HODGKINSON. GEO. DAVIS, JAS. DODDS. F. H. GEISOW. EDMUND GILLOW. ROBT. GREENSLADE. HY. HIRST. D. S. LAWLORJ. C. M'KAY. JNO. PATTERSON. JOS. ROBINSON. GEO. ROWLES. H. WILKS. HENRY BEECHY. BENJAMIN BAILEY. JNO. M'DONALD. D. M'PHEE. JAMES R. STUCK. L. M'GILLIEVRAY. THOS. A. H. PAY. WILLIAM CRISP. Q-EORGB REID, Sejth, (3-EOEG-E REID, Jtjnb. WALTER BASSTIAN. W. C. SCULLY. JAMES PANKHURST. ED. WILSON. THOS. BROWN. JAMES IRELAND. T. H. ESCOTT. JAMES M'DONALD. JOHN MITCHELL. 67 CHARLES HUMPHREYS. TO E. G-ILLOW, ESQ. ri IR — We, the undersigned Electors in the O LONGWOOD DISTRICT, respectfully request that you will a^ow yourself to be put in Nouwation as a CANDIDATE for the REPRESENTATION of that DISTRICT, and pledge ourselves to use our best endeavors to insure your Return. Riverton, Oct. 7th, 1864 JOHN CRERAR, ALFRED CLULIE. ALEX. M'DONALD. HENRY WILKS. JNO. P. TAYLOR. DANIEL DURBRIDGE. A. HONORE. JOHN HO WELL. NATHANIEL BATES. JOHN MARSHALL. JOHN B. WATSON. JOHN PATTESON. JOHN HUNT. WILLIAM DALLAS. THOMAS GREENWOOD. BENJAMIN BAILEY. JOHN WEAVERS. JOHN NEEDHAM. D. S. LAWLOR. JAMES A. GREEN. JAMES PANKHURST. To JOHN CRERAR, Esq., and other Electors of the Longwood District. g IR) — I beg to acknowledge tho receipt of a Requisition signed by yourself and numerous other gentlemen, electors of the _ Longwood District, asking me to become a candidate for the next Provincial Council. I thank you for the honor thus done me, and accept with pleasure the invitation. ••■•,': " . . •-■' '■•■ I am, Gentlemen, - ' Your obedient servant, EPMX7ND G-ILLOW.