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New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 987, 29 September 1855, Page 1

TO CHARLES J. TAYLOR , ESQ. E, the undersigned electors of tlie Southern Division, approving of your past services as our representative; in the General Assembly, and feeling satisfied that you have used your best endeavours to promote the interests of the Colony in general, request that you whl allow youiv self to be put in nomination as a candidate for your former seat in the House of Representatives, and we pledge ourselves to use our interest and support to secure your return, LL*. UP 7 - [Here follow itim .signatures-] Auckland, 24th Sept., 185,5. Gentlemen, — I have mucli plea beapleasure in acceding to your request, and bea - to offer myself as a candidate for the suffrages of the Electors of the Southern Division, to represent their interests in the- General Assembly.' 'L'. /.i.. 5 The experience obtebjed daring the past sessions concerning various, important questions, affecting the welfare of this Province and the Colony at large, will not, If conceive, the less enable me to promote just and beneficial legislation for the future. I have the honor to be. Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Charles J. Taylor. To the Gentlemen signing the Requisition. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION. GENTLEMEN, —I beg to offer myself as a candidate for i\ seat in tlie General Assembly. Neither ray time nor inclination ■will enable me to make a personal canvass of the Division, but I trust my .principles are sufficiently known to justify me in indulging the hope that without this personal attention you will return me as one of your representatives. If otherwuse I shall be perfectly satisfied, for, if I know anything of my own feelings, I seek to promote your interest and the interest of the Colony generally rather tiffin my own personal ambition. I beg to remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient set varffi,TO THE ELECTORS OF THRkSUBURBS OE AUCKLAND. GENTLEMEN,— The General Assembly having been dissolved the duty devolves upon you of returning two persons as Members to the House of Representatives. 1 have already bad the honor of representing -■you; and I truafethatmiyrcohduct has so far met with your approval,as ;q justify me in again seeking yoitb sntErages. I am, Gentlemen, Yours obediently, Fred. W. Merrimam-. Parnell, 24th September, 1855. TO THE ELECTORS OP THE DAY, OF ISLANDS ELECTORAL DISTRICT. Gf ENTLEMEN,—TIie sWethff of State 1 has given authority to’ tho ; General Assembly to 1 in tmduee organ to change?, of the most extensive character, into the Constitution and administration of the Government of New Zealand. At its next meeting, that body will assume the character qf a Constituent'' Assembly, rather than that of an ordinary Legislature. The present circumstance? of Auckland are such as to require the utmost vigilance of every individual who has its welfare at heart. Upon the public 'spirit which the people of Auckland may now display. will it entirely depend; whether the Province of Auckland to be lor a time subordinated 5 to 8 the Settlements of the South, or at once toßhvmtlie regulating its own affairs,' and expending its owm revenues, without the interference of st rangers who have nd interests id common ■with those of its inhabitants, but many interests which may be 1 served by the sacrifice of theirs* <■' ■ Under these cirouinstances, I bog to offer myself as your representative in the House of Representatives, as well as in the, Provincial Council,.believing, it to be certain that the exercise of such powers as are: now will entrusted to the General Assembly be preceded by a dissolnti#,. and a : now election- ’ I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, James Busby. Auckland, Sept. 10, 1855. icTthe ELECTORS OF'.tiie penSlO NEII SETT LEM ENTS. T>ROTIIEH rGiEi.:tORS,~At the first JL> Election of Members for’ the IlousO of Representatives, you did 1 nie lhe honour to place mo at the head of the Poll for your District. I” have used my best endeavours to fulfil my duties with advantage to yourselves and to the Colony ; and I now’ ask you again to show yoar conffileuce in me by reelecting me as oho of yohiyiffipre'senlatiycs. I have the honor to be, Your obedient servant,. Joseph (luEKiShvooD. Auckland, Sept. It, 1 800, . '0 THE ELECTORS of the PENSIONER SETT LEM WfS’i fi ENTLEMEN,—I beg, to offer myself as YJ a Candidate for your suffrages to represent you in the General Assembly, and I do so with tire greater confidence on account of the Requisition which you placed in -my hands some months ago, signed by a : very large, majority of the electors of your district. I have the honor to be, Gentleman, Your obedient' servant, * James Farmer. Ope-tree Hill, Sept. 17, 1855.