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Otago Daily Times, Issue 363, 18 February 1863, Page 8

! Miscellaneous' TO THE HONORABLE JOHIN HYDEHARRIS, ; , , j ESQUIRE, DUNEDIN.,_' SIR, — Major Richardson haying publicly announced his intention of retain? from the office of Superintendent, we, the undersigned Merchants, Settlers, and Electors of Otago, beg that you will allow yourself to be placed in nomination for the vacancy. We feel assured that your lengthened experience of public affairs in this Province; and your well-known liberal tendency, point to you as especially qualified for the position of Superintendent.. We "are* confirmed in this opinion by the able, practical, and business-like manner in which you have filled Alie various public offices which you have held in the Province duriuga long series of years,and which have ' elicited from tliose_ with whom your public duties have brought you in contact, a most favorable opinion of your administrative ability. , • We nre further assured that in any relations with the neighboring Provinces, and the General Government of New Zealand, your influence with the lead- I ing public men of the colony, will enable you to | obtain for this Province every advantage to which it is entitled; and that, from your past conduct of public business, you will maintain all its rights with firmness and dignity. Your well known opinions of the necessity of developing the resources of the Province by the construction of roads and bridge", the erection' of telegraphs, the maintenance of effective postal communication, and the increase of air appliances for carrying on business, assure us that these important matters will have your full attention and support. The rapidly increasing wealth and population of the Province require, at this crisis, a Superintendent acquainted with its past history, as. well as one possessing an intimate knowledge of the present requirements of every section of the community, and we look to your past public career as ■& guarantee that you will equally and fairly deal with all the interests confided to your charge. ■" We are, Sir, Your obedient servants, John Jones ' William Melluish. J'.,Rattray D. B. Sorley James X. Dougla* J. P. Armstrong "Wxo. Cmi Young W. Mason Bing, Harris and Co H. Reynolds and Co A. J. Scoular . John M'Neil J. Cargill . Fred. Dick George Cook Wm. Sinclair Geo. Maclean Paterson and M'Lcod R. B. Martin , Herbert, Haynes & Hay Fred. L. Mieville J. S. Cragg William G. Lang1 Law, Somner and Co Hugh Fraser 'Thompson and M'Donald Frank A. Orbell P. A Chavannes C. S. Saxton Edwin Plninmer John Switzer Park and Curie Henry P. Morse John Favgie WalterHislop Roach Brothers James Finch Jones and Williamson E. Quick Royse, Mudie and Co A. Aitken Wright, Robertson & Co Pole, Dods and Cameron J. M'Gregor Murphy and Co Morison, Law and Co G. and I. Mackay A. G. M'Combe J. S. Webb Harnett and Co Chas. W. C. Webb A. L. Thomson and Co F. Pantlin Ross and Glendinning F. V. Martin Andrew Moir Walter Bell James Smith Edward Ffrancis Ward James Marshall, sen William Couston James Marshall, jun Wm. Perkins, jun John-Thomas Dods Edwin Jones - Wm. Pollock Fredk I. Wilson Archd. Muir Arthur Beverly Robt. Henderson Wilkinson and Dixon George O'Driscoll R6bert Mackay Watson Shennan Fergussoh and Mitchell J. L. and C. Burke j Gillies and Street E. B. Cargill Dunedin, 27th January, 1863. f~ t ENTLEMEN,—In reply to your requisition that \Jt I would come forward as a candidate for the Superintendency of the Province at the approaching Election. I have much pleasure in at once assuring you of my willingness to accede to your wish, especially as it appears that His Honor Major Richardson has publicly signified his intention not again to become a candidate for the office. I shall take an early opportunity of laying before you, and the electors generally, my views on those questions which appear to me most intimately connected with the present and future prosperity of the ' Province, Begging that yon will accept my grateful thanks for the confidence you have expressed towards me, I remain, Gentlemen, Very fnithfuliy yours, JOHN HYDE HARRIS. To John Jones, Esq., and the other gentlemen whose names appear to the fiequisition. Dunedin, 28th January, 1863. THE SUPERINTENDENCY. nnHE Electors are requested not to pledge themJL selves under the impression that Mr Harris will not opppse Major Richardson for ■ the Superintendency at the ensuing election, as Mr Harris has signified his intention of contesting the election. His address will appear in to-morrow's issue. Dunedin, 13tlrFebruary, 1863. TO THE HONORABLE JOHN HYDE HARRIS, ESQ.. DUNEDIN. J SIR,— Your letter of 31st January, in which you refer to the circular appeal which bis Honor Major Itfehardson addressed to the Electors, has purposely remained unanswered till now, in order that before further communication with you, your supporters and the electors Generally, might be allo wed ample time to reflect upon the altered position in which you and they are placed, in consequence of tho appeal'of his Honor Major Richardson to which you •refer. ' ' i ■■While we fully appreciate the honorable feelinc which prompted you to refuse to become a candidate for the office of Superintendent, until his Honor 'Major Richardson made public his intentions to withdraw from public life, and while we do also admit* your subsequent straightforward and gentlemanlike conduct in allowing your supporters to reconsider and if necessary to withdraw their requisition to you, if any misapprehension existed as to his Honor Major Richardson s publicly avowed determination to retire from office; yet after maturely considering the conduct of his Honor Major Richardson, in first assuring the public, in unmistakeable terms, that he would not again seek the suffrages of the electors, while almost , simultaneously with that assurance, he issued a letter to the electors,- asking for an expression .of their j views, or to use his own language "what I shall equally understand your, expressive silence," as to ! whether he should again accept office; we Bay that after reflecting on the conduct of his Honor in this matter, and on the expressive silenoe of the electors with .reference to • his appeal, and considering th* flattering resolutions in your favor passed at a public meeting at Lake Wakatipu, we would show ourselves wanting in zeal for the prosperity of the Province were we not respectfully to press upon you the necessity of allowing yourself to remain a candidate for the office of Superintendent. We have the honor to remain Sir, Yours faithfully, John Jones Wilkinson and Dixon Harnett and Co. E. B. Cargill Andrew Moir John Howorth J. T. Shanks, Jun. A. and J. Scoular Jnmes Smith E. De Carle Janies Marshall, junr Pickford and Co. James Marshall Edward ffrancis \\ ard Driver, Maclean and Co. Jos Kohn and Co. Jas. C. Campbell and Co. T. Hyman and_ Co. Oliver, Cooper and Co, Spier and Levien Royse,-Mudie and Co. Edwin Jones Henry Houghtou and Co, Thomas Jones Henry Burge and Co. Paterson and M'Leod J. Coleman R. J3. Inman .and Co. W. Kirk wood Herbert Haynes and Hay Henry Miller J. S. Cragg A. M'Landress and Co. Wallach Brothers Alexander Cumming and William Sinclair Co. ■ ' ■ William Gregg and Co. Osmond H. Gilles William Meluish W. Wilfred Wilson . Fergus Eon and Mitchell Lloyd, Taggart and Co. Fred L. Mieville Thomas Brown and Co. Jones and Williamson ; A. L. Thomson and Co. ' Feldhcim Bros RobertDyason . D. Murison and C 0.... J. A. J.. MacGregor Pole, Dods and Cameron S. Jones Olinrles Moore William Mitchell Sydney James J. Cargill William Macintosh Thomas J. Leary Bing, Harris and Co David Baxter G. and J. Mackay William Watson Jatucs Finch Fisher Bros. Rioitlnn Brothers James Gunn MaoKay Curl Steinhoff Lewis Colemati Wm Can- Young Whittingliam Bl'o*. J. Kattray • Walter Bell George Young J. Daniels' Edward Moeller Wm. Perkins, jun H. W. Alcoru E.N. Hulland Alcorn Bros William Mason M. Moss M. Nashelski' • ■■ • Henry Prince Jno C. Millard George Dowse , . ■ Edwin Plummer A. G, M'Combo James Reid Al. Myers Fredk TofieM Johu Switzer SanfordandCo; Henry P. Morse Dunedih;l2th February, 1803.