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Southland Times, Issue 1755, 17 June 1873, Page 4

Public Notices. ELECTION OFSUPERINTENDENT. I AM AUTHORISED by the Principal Returning Officer to issue the following List of Polling Booths in Southland. D. MACRORIE, Returning Officer, Invercargill District. Deputy. Tuturau Schoolhouse G. F. Martin Mimihau do E. Rogers Old Police Station, Dacre ... T. Perkins Mavis Bush Schoolhouse ... A. C. Henderson Campbeiltown Courthouse ... G. E. Tucker Invercargill do ... D. Macrorie The Schoolhouse, Wallacetown"") Do do Waianiwa 1 Martendale, Rjal Bush J The Police Station, Winton p /i_ n _ f ._ 1 ■.r tt in t-ii- At -n 1 1 tr. Urant and Mr Howell's, Flint's Bush J- Deputies The Courthouse, Riverton The Schoolhouse, Gummie'sßush The Warden's Office, Orepuki , Dr Hodgkinson's, Mount Fairfax J The house of Mr Cowan.HokanuP*The house of Capt. Hankinson, Linwood I J. N. Wood The house of Mr Johnston, }. and d tf Wrey s Bush c The house of Mr M'Lean, Wairaki J THE SUPERINTENDENCY^ TO THE ELECTORS OF RIVERTON AUD THE WESTERN DISTRICT. <_— __ HAVING taken up a prominent position in public affairs for many years, I have deemed it my duty, in the present crisis, to afford my fellow electors an opportunity of recording their Totes in favor of upholding the written lato of &c land. I respectfully solicit your support and influence it the good cause, hoping you will excuse me if — owing to the brief space of time I have at my disposal (only to the 18th)— I may be unable personally to visit your district. I have always been the consistent advocate of opening up land for bona fide settlement, to it h grating rights of Hundreds ; Agricultural Leasing Blocks on the Goldfields ; land for settlement on deferred payments system ; land for the people and people for the land ; no free selection ; no sales of large blocks ; re-sale by auction of pasturage rights, in small lots, on expiry of present leases ; and the establishment of HUI Farms. I have always strenuously opposed the sale of auriferous lands, and in consequence received much personal abuse. Ten years ago in the Provincial Council I advocated a plan for borrowing money for the construction of railway and other reproductive works, and have continued ever since to do so. I condemn the reckless waste of the public ! funds on hap-hazard and ill-matured schemes, and in bestowing fovors and patronage on personal and party friends, irrespective of their capabilities. I will uphold constitutional law as the only safeguard for the preservation of the civil and religious freedom of the people. I advocate the simplification of our system of Provincial Government, by doing away with the useless paraphernalia, af*, the same time preserving the constitutional checks necessary to secure purity of administration. I recognise the necessity for placing the fran- ! chise on a wider basis than at presentIn conclusion, I would remind the people that the question to be decided by this election is whether or not we are to sweep away representative institutions and place the Government under the despotic will of one man. My candidature is LIBERTY VERSUS DESPOTISM. JOHN L. GILLIES. TO THE ELECTORS OF APARIMA DISTRICT. GENTLEMEN,— I will again do myself the honor of offering myself to represent you in the Provincial Council of Otago. Should I again be favored with your confidence, you may rely upon my best endeavors for the good of the Province, and to get that fair share of consideration for your district, which, 1 regret to say, up to the present has not been accorded it. I have the honor to be, &c, C. BASSTIAN. WHAT IS THE PERMISSIVE BILL ? IT is a measure based upon the broad principle that the Liquor Traffic is inimical to the well being of the nation, and its preamble sets forth that — " Whereas the common sale of Intoxicating Liquors is a fruitful source of Crime, Immorality, Pauperism, Disease, Insanity, and premature Death, whereby not only the in- ] dividuals who give way to drinking habits are plunged into misery, but grievous wrong is done to the persons and property of Her Majesty's subjects at large, and the public rates and taxes are greatly augmented : and whereas it is right and expedient to confer upon the ratepayers of Cities, Boroughs, Parishes, and Townships the power to prohibit such common sale as aforesaid." Its provisions would simply give effect to the public opinion of the country upon a traffic which is confessedly dangerous and difficult to control. It would give ratepayers the power to prohibit the traffic by a decided majority, a right confined at present to Licensing Magistrates and landowners, who seldom permit a public house to be licensed near their own dwellings, and who frequently exercise their power as landlords to prohibit them over large districts. Its principal clauses provide — I. That any time after the passing of the Act, it shall be lawful for a given number of ratepayers in any Borough, Parish, or District, to require the Mayor or Overseers to take the votes of the ratepayers as to the propriety of bringing into operation the provisions of the Act.* 11. That the Mayor or Overseers shall, on receipt of such requisition, cause voting papers to be delivered to, and collected from, all ratepayers within the district. 111. That if, on examining these voting papers, it was found that two-thirds of those voting were in favor of the adoption of the Act, no license \ could be granted or renewed within that district after the term for which the license was current. It is therefore a Bill which could only come into operation when a very large majority in any district were in its favor, and as a result would, after all, prohibit only a privileged monopoly. ALEX. HAY, R.S., Sons of Temperance. DAVID BONTHRON, W.S. Independent Order of Good Templars. *All details, such as the number required to sign the requisition, extent of the district, &c, would be decided in Committee, after the general principle of the Bill had been accepted. £100 REWARD. I^HE above reward will be given for such information as will lead to the conviction of the person or persons removing or concerned in the removal of a " nut" from the coach wheel of the undersigned at Kingston, on the night of Monday, 2nd Jane. ( WTLLTAM FLINT. '