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Taranaki Herald, Volume 1, Issue 34, 23 March 1853, Page 4

TO WILLIAM IIALSE, Esq. SIR,— Wp, Ihe undersigned inhabitants of New Plymouth, beinp; of opinion that yon arc, l>y ability, position, knowledpe of ihe native character, and intimate acquaintance with the affairs of this Settlement from its establishment, well qualified to fill the important post of Superintendent of this Province, request that you will permit us to nominate you as a Candidate for that cflice. Tlenry King, J.P. T. K. Skinner G. Cutfield, J.P. P. F. Hoskin T. W. Richardson W. C. King Robert Greenwood P. Wilson, J.P. Thomas Good C. Homeyer Georpe Bayley George St. George John L. Newman T. Wayth Gudgeon ■ J. Y. Lloyd, J.P. Samuel Vick< is John S. de Mole Frederick Norris Edw. L. Humphries Ricliard Wood J. C. Sharland Octa. Carrington Wm. Lnkcuifin C. A. Bcardsworth New Plyaiouth, Dee. 20, 1852. Gentlfmun, I have had the linnour of receiving your address, asking that I would permit you to nominate me ns a Candidate for the office of Superintendent of the Province of New Plymouth. 1 The requisition, so infiuentially signed, and proceeding fiom gentlemen to whose opinions I feel it my duty to bow, leaves me no alternalive but to comply with your wishes, conveyed in terms so flattering to myself. I have accordingly prepared an Address to the Electors of the Province, announcing myself as a Candidate for their suffrages. I have, &c. (Signed) W. FIALSE. To Captain King, R.N., nnd the other Gentlemen signing tbe requisition.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH, ' Gi ENTLEMEN.-A requisition hnvinp 5" been aJdres'cd to me by a number of gentlemen of this diattict, to the effect tliat I would consent to be put in nomination lor the Superintendentship of the Province of New Plymouth, I have now the honour of announcing mjself to you as a Crindidate for that office. In so doing 1 , it is not necessary that I say many words of myself. I am n colonist of 1841, nnd have resided in New Ply* mouth from thnt petiod to tho present time. During some considerable part of the interval, I have been engaged in offices of public and private trust and responsibility. Yet, although these considerations may not improperly be regarded as in some dogne wai ranting a Candidate in applying for your suffrages, still I should not have urged them upon the present occasion but for the solicitation of the pentlemen whose names are appended to the requisition, and whom I know to be actuated in this matter less by private feelings towatds myself than by consideration for the community at large. The duties of a Superintendent must, I am aware, nccsssarily be various and arduous ; and this will be more especially the case in a Province situated as New Plymouth is, which has hitherto been without a local head of affairs, rendering necessary a reference of every question of importance to a distance for decision. The utmost care will be necessary in maintaining a cordial co-operation between the Provincial Council and the Central Government ; and in doing; this the Superintendent must act with impartiality as well to the people who have elected him, as to the Government of which he becomes an officer. To obtain distinction nt the hands of the people,may well be deemed an object of the highest ambition, and more particularly so on tins the first exercise by the inhabitants of New Zealand of their political rights. It is as n settler—as one of yourselves — that I a«k this mark of your confidence. Should you consider me deserving of it, my aim shall be so to fulfil the duties that would devolve upon me under the New Constitution, as to contribute, in the largest posbib'e degree, to the well being of the Province in whoso welfare I am so deeply interested ; and thus I would fain hope that the periodical .fissolution of the Provincial Council may not necessarily disturb a relation between us, cieated in food will and mutual esteem. I have the honour to subscribe myself, I Gentlemen, Your faithful servant, ! December 20, 1852, HALSE.