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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 65, 29 October 1864, Page 4

■■!■_; 1„ j i ii.....! _J!"*""iL.— —■"■^^■gg! Election Notices. long, thero will be a hho connecting this Province with Nelson. Ifc would be judicious for the General Government to initiate such a Hne, making first those portions most urgently required, and gradually extending operations mitil the whole was completed. In contemplation of such a scheme being adopted, I should be in favor of handing over to the General Government the Bluff and Invercargill Railway, the Province receiving the sums expended on its construction. The whole telegraph system should also be Ul the hands of the General Government, and that portion of it already completed, viz. — the line between Invercargill and the Bluff— should be at once handed over, the Province, as in the case of the railway, being reimbursed for its outlay. 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 mado 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 see justice done. I am nofc opposed to the theory of assisted immigration, but under the present circumstances of the Province, I should be unwilling to see any public funds appropriated to such an object. I Bhould, if elected, endeavor to keep the Provincial expenditure within tho 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, wluch 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 is necessary that the Provincial Council should possess control over the Superintendent hi his expenditure of Provmcial moneys. The Council can place an efficient check on his actions by resolution, to the effect thafc fchey 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, 67-to MATTHEW HOLMES. TO THE ELECTORS OF INVERCARGILL. G1 ENTLEMEN,— -At the time I consented to T become a Candidate for the Provmcial Council at the ensuing election, I intimated to some of my requisitionists that it was probable that I should have occasion to leave the Province for a short time on business, but afc the same time I had reason to believe it would not be until after the first sitting of the new Council. Owing, however, to the delay which has occurred in receiving the writs, and to advices I have just received from Tasmania, requesting my presence there sooner than I anticipated, I shall, most likely, be absent during the election and the first session. I do not expect fco be absent; many weeks, but as during that period questions of vital importance to the Province will probably be under discussion, I consider that not a single member should be absent from his post, and am, therefore, reluctantly compelled to retire from the field. In taking this step I cannot but express my deep regret that circumstances should require such a course, but in justice to myself and to the Province at largo, I feel bound to follow this line of conduct. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, 64-65 C. E. BUTTON. ELECTION NOTICE. ELECTORAL DISTRICT OE CAMPBELLTOWN. -j-N pursuance of tho provisions of an Act of tlie JL General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858/ » I, Horace Simmonds, Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Campbelitown, do hereby give notice that, by virtue of. a Writ, bearing date the eleventh, day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, an ELECTION will beheld for the return of a qualified person to servo as a MEMBER of the PROVINCIAL COUNCIL for the said Electoral District, and that the NOMINATION of CANDIDATES will take place at the Coubt-Housb, Campbe^i/towx, on Monday, the seventh day of Novbmbeb, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four ; and that tho Poll (if necessary) will take placo on Tuesday, the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfour. Dated this twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand oight hundred and sixty -four. HORACE SIMMONDS, Returning Officer. Tho following is the Polling Placo for the Electoral District of Campbelitown :-— CQDBT-HQUfIE, OAMPBBiITOWy, HORACE, SIMMQWDS,