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Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 427, 26 November 1861, Page 2

. To the Electors of the Province of Nelson. QENTLEMEft.—Now that it has been *-A determined that we are to have an election. ! proceed to address you, without hesitation, as to my views and intentions. As Electors you are called upon to shew a manly independence, of thought and action. On the sanio principle 1 abstain from personal canvass, or by solicitation of friends, or agents ; neither do I call to aid a committee, or what is worst of all—"comply with a Requisition numerously signed " —the whole of which I hold to be devices, whereby to obtain undue influence. As a moral, rest assured those who buy you with fair words will sell you at a moment's notice. Up to this time you have been guided by parties who have professed much but done very little for the real advantage of the province. Upon the choice you now make the future depends—" as you sow so you will reap." I take my stand upon the Constitution as_ granted to the colony, which I am resolved to maintain in all its integrity, and to act upon all occasions iv strict conformity with its details. In all measures requiring legislation I should prefer the assistance of the Provincial Council to my own dictation, whilst in those matters which properly belong to the office of Superintendent I should ever strive to maintain even-handed justice without fear or favor. I should on all occasions implicitly set my face against running in debt, or anticipating revenue by any device, call it by what name you will. I look at the practice of Government guarantees as fraught ■with tile greatest evil, and would never acquiesce in such a step, except under the most pressing necessity, and the entire approbation of the Provincial Council and the Executive. I fully perceive the obligation that will devolve on myself should you be pleased to elect me as your Superintendent. You have my most hearty assurance that at no time will you be startled by anything visionary, but that you will at all times find me the champion 'of sure and solid progress throughout the province. With intrinsic value and merit within the Province of Nelson seldom equalled or rarely surpassed, both in an agricultural and mineral point of view, what material progress has been made for its advancement in the reign of your present Superintendent ? Are we to stand still whilst others improve and progress ? To go on with such a leader as you have had for the last five years the result must be that you will fall backwards; for in these days you must go forward or slide back; " statu quo >' is now by common consent, struck out of the vocabulary, Our mineral resources arc almost unlimited, but to make them available free intercourse must be established. On land there is no device known to effect the greatest amount of good equal to railways. If they effect wonders in an old country, they work miracles in a new one : it saves what we have not gGt to spare—men, horees, carts, money, and above all, time. But that I may not be misunderstood, I expressly state I do not anticipate the construction of such costly undertakings as the lines of railway in England, but such lines only as can be constructed at say £3000 per mile. Great speed is not necessary with us, and as you omit that you reduce cost. I wish to be explicit on this point; I consider one hundred miles of railway for the immediate requirement of the province as absolutely necessary; twenty miles of which should run through the Aorerc Valley to the Quartz Ranges, and the other eighty miles, centring in Nelson, running to Wangapeka Plains, and at the same time connecting Motueki East and West Waimea and the north district each with the other and Nelson likewise. To do this 1 do not contemplate Government aid either in money loans or liabilities of any kind, or expect to raise money in this country by the ordinary method in England of sale of shares. The capital required, £300,000, may very readily be imported from England, if judiciously negotiated, and that with full integrity, honor, and honesty, and profit likewise to all parlies concerned. With railways the country will progress more in ten years than in one hundred years without them. It is not, however,'to railways alone that I am wedded to advance the welfare of the province. Letters which I have published in the local papers for several years past on Steani Navigation, Sanitary Measures, Water Supply, Mill Power, and ■Waterworks of all descriptions, Gas Works, Harbor Improvements, &c, inconlestably prove that I am favorable to each and all of them, and contend they may all be obtained as self-supporting objects entirely without Government|Guarantces. Forty years of my life have been passed in active participation in the above pursuits, added to those of Mining practically, botli in coal, iron, copper, and lead, the construction of canals, railways, harbors, docks, and .'ill the etc. of I machinery belonging to all and each of them. And if many years have passed over my head 1 may say; as truly as I do thankfully, I have not outlived my faculties, either mental or corporeal; and if there is any truth in the adage "that with age comes wisdom," I trust I may be able to offer you some portion of inexperience in conducting your affairs. In the hepe and belief 1 may be your next Superintondei.t, I now subscribe myself Your obedient servant, 4GO W. LONG WREY.

odd-fellows' hall. GRAND DRAWING-ROOM ENTERTAINMENT. Directress Mrs. "W. H. Foley. LAST NIGHT OF TEE SEASON! ' Production of the celebrated romantic Operatic Drama entitled " The Daughter of the Kegiment,1' THIS EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1861. The Performance will commence with the grand Operatic Drama (in two Acts,) THE DAUGHTER OF TEE REGIMENT. Sergeant Sulpizio (belonging to the 11 tit Regiment of ■ ■ the French Army).. .. Mr. Swarm. ; . Corporal Spontine .. .... .... Mr. Clements. Corporal Grenade ...'. Mr. Sanger. . ■ Corporal'Fazile.... .... •. Mi. Horncastle. * ; Tonio (a young Tyrolese Peasant) Mr. Vernon . . ■ Webster,. - • ..-. '~ :, ■.. Ortensio (Intendant to the Marchioness). .Mr. Wilson.. Maria (the adopted Daughter of the Regiment).. Mrs. W. H. Foley, The Marchioness de. Biikenr)eld .. Miss Melville. Soldiers of the ilth Kegiment, Peasants, Servants, &c, &c. The action is.in the Tyrol, during the period of its Invasion by the French. New Scener?/It/ Mr. Hodgson^ and Assistants. The whole produced under the immediate direction . of Mrs. W. H. FOfiEY. DUETT (COMIC) Mr. Swarm and Mrs. Foley. Tho entertainment will conclude with the laughable farce, by M. Morton, Esq., \ THE LITTLE SAVAGE. Major Choker ...... Mr. J. H. Hillyard. Mr, John Parker Mr. V. Webster. . Mr. Lionel Larkins...... Mr. Swarm. Jonathan, (the Major's Servant) .... Mr. F. Clements. (Ist appearance this Season ) Lady Barbara Choker.... Miss Melville. , Kate Dahymple (tho Littlo Savage) .... Mra. W. IT. Foley. Prices of Admission—Front Seats and Gallery, (reserved) 45.; Body of the Hall, 2n. 6d. Doors open at halt-past Seven. To commence at Eight o'clock. Tickets; may be had and places secured at Mr. STAIN TON'S, Trafalgar-street. The Volunteers' Band is engaged, 469'