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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIII, Issue 974, 28 October 1856, Page 1

To Jofin Williamson, Esq., M.H.R. BLPO. ; Silk— We,* the undersigniif#Electo» of the Province of Auckland, approving of your past assiduous »ttentioa,tt>^hß public interests, »nd being fully pjerauaded tLTa^ at the present oriais, it is of the utmost hb* portarice to elect a Superintendent- who is identified^, with the recognized sound political principles held by the Constitutional Party, request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination for the now' vacant Superintendency of the Province. Should you consent to accept this invitation, we will use our utmost exertions to secure your return. We are, Sir, Yout obedient servants, (Here follow the signatures.)

To John Williamson, Esq., M.H.R., M.P.C, Sir,— l am requested by the Constitutional Association to inclose you the accompanying numerously signed requisition, which has been forwarded to it for presentation to you. . The Constitutional Association are strengthened m their hopes that you will give a favourable consideration to the invitation, by a resolution passed at a meeting of a number of the members of the Provincial Council, declaring their confidence in you, and their resolve to give a general support to your government, if returned, by which a hope may be reasonably entertained that, in that event, the real progress of the Province will not be interrupted by any want of co-opera-tion between the Superintendent and the Legislature. We have been confidently informed that we are to be entrusted with a similar requisition to you, by an even larger number than those already received, but which at this hour have not yet arrived. (Signed) J. O'Neill, Chairman. October 2, 1856.

Auckland, Thursday Evening, October 2, 1856. DEAR Stß,— l have just received, by the hands of a deputation irom the Constitutional Association, your note, accompanying a requisition, from a numerous body of electors, inviting me to become a candidate for the vacant Superintendency of this Province. I need hardly assure you, Sir, that it would have it. would have been more in accordance with my own 'wish had the requisition now placed in my hands been presented to some one better qualified than I consider myself to be for the important office for which I am thus called on to become a candidate. But, as I believe it to be a duty which devolves upon us as fellow colonists, working together for what we believe to be most conducive to the public interests, not to decline to occupy whatever position may be thought most expedient to assign to us in furtherance of that object, I therefore beg you will inform the Association that I accept the invitation, and I do so the more readily, feeling encouraged by the assurance that, should I be elected, I shall receive the heany co-operation and assistance of those gentlemen with whom I have acted in. the Pr-r incial Council, and with those *iih who§e opinions respecting our Provincial affairs, my own have been identified. # I shall take an early opportunity of placing before the public my reply to the requisition with which I have been honoured. I remain, dear sir, Your obedient servant, J. Williamson. James O'N T eill, Esq., M.P.C, &c, &c.

To the Electors of the Province of Auckland. /"I ENTLEMEN,— At the request of a very numerous \JT portion of the Constituency of this Province I have been led to become, and have been nominated as, a Candidate for the office of Superintendent of the Province of Auckland. I have been persuaded thus to present myself, not merely because of the extensive and energetic support which I have been promised, but I have been further encouraged by the assurance of the co-operation of a number of my active colleagues in the Provincial Council in enabling me to carry out that Policy for which during the last Session they and I vainly contended, and which, I think I may safely venture to say, is now considered by the great bulk of the community to be the best adapted to the true progress and prosperity of the Province. It was my intention to have visited in person all of the Electoral Districts, and there to have attended meetings, for the purpose of explaining my t sentiments with reference to our Provincial affairs, in presence of the Electors. I have been enabled to attend such meetings in the Auckland District, but the time lias been so brief since I agreed to become a candidate, that I could not possibly have attended in the more distant places ; nor shall I be able to do so now, prior to the Election, which is to me a matter of much regret. I have reason to believe, however, that the policy which, if elected, I intend to pursue, and which I have all along unswervingly advocated, is fully known to most of you. The policy of the party which is now retiring, the leading points of which I have throughout firmly opposed, has been tried, and has been found 10 be most disastrous to the interests of the country. In condemnation of that policy, many of the late " Progress Party," (as it was miscalled) have been even more severe than that with which I have acted; and very many of the reflecting and judicious men who formerly belonged to that party, I have now good reason to believe, will be found arrayed amongst my sup- ( porters on the present occasion. In soliciting your suffrages, gentlemen, I refrain from all idle promises. My past public conduct in the service of the Province is the best guarantee I can offer for my future actions. I may fearlessly assure you that I come before you with a single desire to advance this Province as a whole. lam no nominee, either of any class or party ; unless, indeed, of a party animated with a desire to govern the Province with prudent ecoromy— with energy in developing its resources — and with a zealous disposition to vigorously promote, by liberal measures, an extensive and practical colonization thereof. I believe it to be the duty of the Superintendent to make himself well acquainted, by personal observation, with the wants of the several Districts of the Province, in order that he may be the better able to co-operate with the Re- ; presentatives of those Districts, in giving effect to measures calculated to convey impartial benefits to all ; and, in conclusion, allow me to say that, should I be elected to that office, the interests of the more distant settlements of the Province, as well as those in the immediate vicinity of the Capital, shall be earnestly attended to,— a duty which no personal inconvenience or sacrifice on my part shall cause me to neglect I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient humble servant, J. Williamson. Auckland, October 18, 1856.

Auckland Steam Navigation Company. A GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders of the above Company, will be held at the Wm. Denny Hotel, on Friday, the 3Ut instant, at 4 o'clock. By order of the directors, Geo. Duke, Secretary, A. S. N. Co. October 21/1856.