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New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 651, 10 July 1852, Page 2

TO J. LOGAN CAMPBELL, ESQ.

Auckland, July 6, 1852. (?<IR,~ Convinced that you aie eminently O qualified to occupy a seat in the Provincial Council of New Ulster, fiom your long experience in the colony, known moderation, and just views on the various complicated and important questions which must come under immediate consideiation,— we, the undo signed, lespectfully request that you will allow yourself to be nominated as a Candidate for the Suburbs of Auckland. John Gray, Augs. B. Abraham, Walter Hrodie, Benj. E. Turner, John Salmon, T. H. Baitlcy, J. A. Gilfillan, James Robertson, J. Woodhouse, H. Niccol, Wm. Connell, William Bruce, Thomas Johnson, Henry Hardington, William Boyd, Edward Bull, Andiew Rooney, William Hay, John Brigham, Richard Clark, George Codlin, Thomas Kerr, Thomas Finlay, James Andeison, Edward Parker, Ileniy Clark, Thos. Runciman, Caleb Robinson, Joshua Robinson, John Hill, Edwaid Lewis, David Geo Anderson, Thomas Wateis, George Pollard, James Hills, Thos. Steel, John Horn, Edward Hynes. George Dennett.

To the Gentlemen signing the foregoing Requisition, and other Electors of the Suburban Distnct of Auckland. Gentlemen, — Whatever disclina!ion I may have previously entertained against entering the arena of Colonial Politics, the flattering requisition you have done me the honour to address to me, and the'peculiar juncture of Colonial Affairs, induce me, at once, to assent to your wishes, -and to announce myself as a Candidate for the representation of t the Suburbs of Auckland in the forthcoming Provincial Couucil of New Ulster. At one of the early Pioneers drawn towards New Zealand in its earliest period of British settlement, I have nccessaiily acquired an intimate personal knowledge of its past history, and may therefore be presumed to be competentj to form a tolerably correct estimate of its present wants and future requirements. Whatever measures may be brought before the Council, calculated to advance the prosperity of the colony, shall, in the event of my election, commaud my careful and unbiassed consideration ; forwhatever course I may deem it my duty to pursue, you may feel assured that your inteiests shall be as sedulously and conscientiously guarded as my own — indeed they are identical I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, J. Logan Campbell. July 8, 1852.

TO MR. JAMES C. HILL.

SIR,— We, the undersigned Electors of the Northern Division of the Province of New Ulster, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated for a seat in the foithcoming Provincial Council, feeling that your interests as a landed proprietor resident amongst us are identified with our own, and having confidence, that if elected you will use your best exertions for the benefit of this colony and people. Thos. Cleghorn, George L. Simpson, J, O'Keefe, John Brigham, Joseph Senior, Henry Hayr, Walter Pell, Henry Laurence, Donald McNaughton, William Caldicutt, Thos. Osborne, John Bycroft. Hillsbogf*, Bth July, 1852. Gentlemen, — v Please to accept by best thanks for the gratifying expression of public confidence contained in the above requisition, and permit me to say, that a stiict sense of public duty, (not ambition) directs me to cheei fully accept your invitation, and to announce myself a Caudidate for the suffrages of my brother electors to represent them in the foithcoming Council for New Ulster. You do me justice in stating that my interests are ideniified with yours, for with the prosperity of this Colony and your best interests mine, and that of a large family, must stand or fall. I trust fiom many yeais experience in public affairs in my native land, and a ten years residence amongst you in New Zealand, closely observing the many wants and difficulties stopping the prosperity of the country, I shall, if elected to the highly honourable position of one of your representatives, prove myself worthy of the confidence placed, by a feaileES, conscientious, and independent discharge of the important trust reposed in me, f "for the promotion of the true honour and prospeuty of the country, and the best interests of all classes of her people — my motto being, " Equal Rights and Puvileges for all Britibh Subjects, Retrenchment, and Reform." I have the honour to be Gentlemen, Your faithful servant, James C. Hill. To the Gentlemen of the Requisition, and the Electors of the Division in general.

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF AUCKLAND.

FELLOW - COLONISTS,~-It is my intention to piesent myself as a Candidate at the forthcoming Election, for a seat in the first Provincial Council. I need hardly lemind you that there are none in New Zealand more identified with New Ulster than myself, and indubitably none will be truer to your inieiosts. I have no private designs to seive — I seek no situation for myself, or for any one belonging to me — my principles are well known — and, should your choice fall upon me, I will, to the best of my capacity, not shiink from pei forming faithfully the veiy onerous duties of so important a ttust, even as I have done while disthaiging the humbler functions of a Borough Councillor. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your very obedient Servant, J. O'Neill.

Clanaboy, July 2, 1852.