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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Issue 970, 18 November 1854, Page 2

- conthe ad55. ; and Mr. scale -will as to the geNovember, 1854. Esq., J.P. vacancy having occurred in the PPWProvincial ■Council by the resignation of Mr. George Moore, we the undersigned Electors of this Province, duly appreciating your standing as an old colonist, your commercial knowledge and independent character, conceive that you are eminently qualified to represent the constituency of the City of Wellington in the Provincial Council, and do ourselves the honor to request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination for the vacant seat, and in the event of youi acceptance we hereby pledge ourselves to use every legitimate means in our power to secure your return. We remain, Sir, Your obedient servants, (Signed) Edward Daniell, J.P. John Plimmer James Smith C. J. Pharazyn W. S. Loxley Fred. Atcheson John Varnham T. Nattrass James Blythe J. E. Watkin Michael Quin C. Brown James Kelham, J.P. John Cook John Dorset N. Levin J. H. Wallace W. Mason W. Spinks W. F. Mason C. W. Schiiltze John Stevens Thos. K. Warburton L. Levy Samuel Maxton A. Qockroft John Minifie John Evans William Rowlands George Crawford W. B Rhodes, J.P. George Edwards P. M. Hervey J. H. Gillard Wm. Lyon John Wai den Robert Jenkins A. Hort, sen., J.P. W. Waring Taylor James Firth C R. Carter Charles Mills John Wallace Charles D. Barraud Robert Waitt Alexander Mackay Geo. Hunter, J.P. J. Burne J. H. Mairiott J. Holmes John Hoskins C. Wilton Nathaniel Valentine Thomas E. Creed R. Armstrong Wm. Fawcett John C. Curtis Frederick Bills John Martin James Wallace Wm. F.lyger Joseph Torr G. H. Luxford John Turner William Tonks Peter Christison E. G. Osgood Robert Hart, M.H.R. Philip Murch John Pearse B. Ferrers B. P. Perry D. Anderson Richard Barry Robert Langdon

. Wellington, November 17, 1854. f* ENTLEMEN,— I have, on several occasions, been requested to allow myself i to be nominated as a candidate for a seat in the Provincial Council of this Province, but I have always declined to accede to those requests because the attendance during the sittings of Council necessarily occupies a great part of the time of its members to the serious neglect of , their own private business. ! The address, however, which has this day been presented to me, requesting that I will permit myself to be nominated as a candidate to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. George Moore, one of the representatives of the City of Wellington in the Provincial Council, is so numerously and respectably signed by electors of various shades of political opinions, that I consider it my duty at once to comply with your request. Should I be elected I will give my cordial support to all measures that I may deem beneficial to the general interests of the Province, whether those measures be introduced into the Council by the Government or by private members ; and on the other hand, I .will give the most strenuous opposition to any measures that I may deem prejudicial to the good of the Province. I will also advocate strict economy in the appropriation of the public revenue, consistently i with the maintenance of due efficiency in every department of the Government. I am, 'Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant WM. HICKSON. To Edward Daniell T F T p W.B.Rhodes j Es^ J^ And the other Gentlemen who ( signed the address.