SUPERINTENDENCY ELECTION.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3820, 16 November 1869, Page 3

SUPERINTENDENCY ELECTION.

To thi Editor o( tfu Duly Souxhxan Oboib. Sir,— Will you kindly inform me if I am mistake* in thinking that, as an tlector for toe diitriot of Marsdea, 1 can giro my vote for the Superintendent her* in. Auckland 2 I am one of those who think it i* time that we had a change in the government of the province, for the following plaia and simple reasons, among others :— l. Ido not think a Government enacting a pisce of legislation like the poll tar, and adhering to it in defiance of the opposition of nine-tenths of the population, deserves our confidence. 2... I do not think that the man who votes against the ballot, and for a corn, tar, known, or, if he knows, cares, for the true interests of the people. S. Ido not b«lieve in Government steamer* being pressed into electioneering service ; nor in many other underhanded manoeuvres, that are patent to all quiet observers. 4. I cannot see that Mr. Williamson caret in the least for the country district!', except to pick up a few votes. For seven years I have never known him concern himself in the interests even of his favourite forty-acre farmers, uulais au election was coming on. 5, and chiefly — I believe that a dipsooratic Government is the very worgt, and the most shameful that a moral anl intelligent ptople can uphold. Therefore I shall vote for Mr. Gillie*.— 1 am, ie, 1 Samuxl Edqbr. 1 (^raftoa Eoid, Nov«»b«t 13, 180».

MU. GILLIES AT THE NORTH. The following ac&mnt of Mr. T. B. Gilliea's visit to^fchje jNorth has- freen ! supplied to us : — Mr. Gillies left Tapu at midnight on Saturday night, the 7th, accompanied by Captain Butt, and arrived «t Whangarei Heads at half-past one o'-elockon Monday* He proceeded on to Whangarei, where he arrived' at eleven o'clock at night. On the next morning messeugers were sent to the surrounding j districts, notifying that a meeting would be held at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and at Mangapai at 3 o'clock next day. On Wednesday morning, Mr. Gillies met the electors at Whangarei. Sir Osborne Gibbes occupied the, chnir, and there Were from 32 to 33 persons present, all of whom were electors except three or four. Mr. Gillies addressed the meeting at considerable length, and received a vote of confidence. From this place Mr. Gillies proceeded to Mangapai, accompanied by Mr. Ormiaton, J.P. ; Mr. John Taylor, J,P. ; Mr. Rust, of Whangarei ; and •Several others. About thirty electors assembled to hear Mr. Gillies's views, and a great number of questions were aelced and replied to. At the conclusion a vote of confidence was pass6d, every person present except one holding up his hand. Next morning, Thursday, Mr. Gillies proceeded to Waipu, accompanied by Mr. Marsh, a Mangapai settler. A meeting was held at three o'clock in the afternoon, upwards of 60 persons being present. Captain Mackenzie occupied the chair. Mr. Gillies addressed the meeting, and was questioned on a number of subjects. Upon a show nf hands, a vote of confidence was passed, every hand being held up in Mr. Gillies's favour except five or six. On the following morning Mr. Gillies proceeded to Mangawai and To Arai, being accompanied by Mr. Kenneth ' Campbell and Captain JButfc. The party called at a number of settlers' houses on the Wfty, and was very well received, j They continued their journey to Albertland, and on arrival notice was given that a meeting would be held on the following day at three o'clock, at Port Albert. At the hour appointed about twenty-five electors assembled, and the Rev. Mr. Worker was called to the chair. After a lengthy address a vote of confidence waa given. Several questions were put to Mr. Gillies relative to the introduction of a Permissive Liquor Bill. He, however, declined to pledge himself to introduce such a measure. On Sunday Mr. Orillies proceeded to Otamatea, where he arrived at seven p.m. He came by boat to Helensville, and arrived in town at 5.30 o'clock last evening.