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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 61, 20 October 1864, Page 6

-■ ;//;///..// v/,/. r;/;//;/ ":toj ; £ jLX ; raipEs/ ; E^Qa; S SfE^p-Wbi the r /undersigned- ;Eiectors"Pf Infer?/ '^cargiu^wquest you will'allow yourself to' be" nosninated as a Candidate for the Representation/ of this Town at the next Election of r members' of the-Provincial Cpuncil. In submitting -this requisition- to^you, we f; beg -to- 4 'stated that- we-db so; irrespective;; of- your candidature or tion-candida-turefor the i office ybu-now o'ecupyi ;T We ; believe you" to be actuated' by tha^t 'patriotism which will 1 render, you ever' ready^to' share in the labor' and responsibility devolving uppri the; new Provincial Council,' iii the of the affaira of the Province at the present crisis.- Trusting- you- 1 will give a favorable reply to the requisition,; -' : " .' /. "/* " . We/are^'Sir,; • '", / ; //\-//;// : : .■■ J, ..> Your obedient servants, : ;> ' HENRY^Tv RbSsV/ , 1 / JOHN KINGSLAND. / .-. JABEZ HAY. ■;■',■-■ /; JQHN COUTTS. ALEX. P. CLARK- . ; : G ; EO.: LUMSDEN. ' SAMUEL BEATEN. 4 . JOHN SPENCEr . , . WILLIAM ROBERTSON. JOHN WILSON. ' I HUGH CAMERON. ' D. SMITH./ , PETER DALRYMPLE. JOHN W. MITCHELL. , J. T. TAYLOR./ - ! THOS. HEMMINGWAY. WM. GRANGER. WM. BLACKWOOD. ' JOHN MOIR. BOBT. MURDOCH. W. R. PERKINS. JOSEPH HATCH. JNO. BLACKLOCK. GEQRGE^mEW. - WTVL G. BRIGHT. ARCHD. BONAR, Sen. DAVID WEBSTER. WILLIAM NEWTON. WM. GARTHWAITE. A. T. MANING. A. M. CAMERON. JOHN ROSS. HENRY E. OSBORNE. SOLOMON SHEPHERD. DUNCAN R. MACDONALD. WALTER HOGG. ANGUS KERR. GEORGE REESE. A. BERNDT, M.D. JOHN HARE. THOMAS BAILLIE. DONALD POTTER. JOHN MACDONALD. J. G. HUGHES. JOSEPH EXAIX. JOHN MITCHELL. JAS. P. JOYCE. JAS. LANG. WE. LOCKHART. G-. W. BINNEY. A. H. PUETTELKOW. THOMAS NIXON. WM. MORTLOCK. SAMUEL ELBORNE. F. H. GEISOW. G-. M. K. CLARKE. ALEX. MAIR. JAMES GARVEN. ISAAC BROAD. J. V. INGRAM. J. H. PERKINS. ANDREW CUMMING. ROBT. MITCHELLJOHN SLOAN. W. SLOAN. ROBT. SLOAN. EDWARD BRUCE. LOUIS MYERS. W. ROEBUCK. HENRY B. MONKMAN. M. MEISTDOZA. I J. S. JTOKNSTONE, Registrar. j J. HARNETT. G. S. CROUCH. ROBT. TAPPER. DONALD ROSS. DONALD M'QUEEN. HECTOR M'IYOR. i ROBERT MILLER. I J. C. HUNTER. WILLIAM BINZER. COLIN N. CAMPBELL. SYDNEY T. BULL. H. LAW. WM. M. MACKAY. WILLIAM MOFFATT. THOMAS CAMPBELL. WM. B. GRIGOR. JAS. A. BONAR. ARCH. BONAR, Jun. THOS. J. WHITE. F. CHAPMAN. WM. LIVESEY. JOHN MORTON. JNO. BELL. LOUIS HUME. W. BARHAML ROBERT AULD. J. B. TAYLOR. JNO. MUNRO. H. ELLIOTT. CHRISTOPHER HIGGLES. To Messrs. ROSS, KINGSLAND, HAY, and the other Electors signing the Requisition. GBKTIiBiCEK, I thank you heartily for the honor you have conferred on me in asking me to become a candidate for a seat in the Provincial Council, to represent the district of Invercargill, and willingly accept your invitation. Such a mark of confidence from so large a number o£ Electors possesses at the present time *speDial value and significance which I fully appreciate. It was my intention, for reasons of a personal character, to have retired for some time from the field of Provincial politics in the course of the ensuing summer, but at the desire of many friends I lately agreed to delay acting on this intention, and to resume for a time, the duties of Superintendent, in event of being re-elected to that office by the new Council. I would not have considered such a course to be an imperative duty if the circumstances of the Province were more prosperous. As they are at present, I felt most reluclant to withhold any aid that I could give towards the restoration of its prosperity, in the proximate realisation and future continuance ©f which I have undoubted confidence ; or, if it wa3 offered, to shrink from accepting the post of honor when it had become one of difficulty. It is due to you and right that I should state my views on some questions which have already been keenly debated, and which will come under the consideration of the next Provincial Council, and upon which, it may be, those views are not fully understood. . One of those is^-the nature of the administration of the Provincial Government, as regards the relations of the Superintendent with the Executive Council. Under the laws at present in operation, the executive powers of the Superintendent are derived partly from the Provincial Council, and partly from authority, extraneous and superior to that of the Council, over which the Provincial Council have "no control ; its ■rrill alone cannot absolutely determine hctr those particular powers shall be exercised. In its last two sessions, .the Provincial Cpuncil contended — although not uniformly— that it possessed the controlin the latter case, aa well as in the former. Much discussion arose— not all unprofitable, for it probably led to the /formation of definite opinions on the points of difference. Holding to thi&idea, the Council in its sixth session passed a bill, which, if assented to, . would , have' fundamentally, altered the, ccmstitution of the PfWmeial Government.' 'As for example, with reference to the executive functions of the Superinteadent, it provided that he ebouM act as chairnttt of the Provincial Council «nji carry out it*