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Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 70, 30 November 1853, Page 4

TO' THE F LECTORS OF THE OMATA DISTRICT. resigned my %Jf seat in Council snme expianntion i< due In those Oentlemen who did me the honor to elect me a member. — Being occupied in Buiine^s some miles from Town, I rould not nt till times a'tend the meetings of the Provincial Council without neglecting matters of importance to myself ; Ivv>n<_>, however, offered my services to Ihe Electors of the Omntn District, nnd bein/y honored with thrir confidence I vmt prepared to niHke iKinr 1 sacrifice in tlie faithful diccharpp of the dti'ips of mvoffice, find hud I he^n fritter) with that dpfrree of courtesy which is due and which should be observed by iheeourwil to eafh Member of its bmly, I should not have vacnlt-d my sent during the p)>snnt session ; finding also my exc rtioni inffTertu 3 ' in forwnrding those interests I whs called upon to represent, I eonsiderit my duty to send in mv rrsij;nnton. to give von ?n opportunity of making choice of a Gentleman possefsing greater jibil'tv to sprve you. With recpect to the Cattle Trespass Bill which I introduced at the Teqnpst of *cv" *"ral lan'l owners of your district, it was as yotj a> «• n I ready awnro negatived nt it<» serond reading by t c majority of the Council without r ven a discussion, one Gentleman " observed in snppott of the present Ordinancp that it had now been in opprrttjon •<on)p yean and before he volfd in favor of the Bill he should like to bo better acquainted with the feeling-, of ihe Settler* penernlly on the suhjert, but the Gentleman omitted to state to the Council, <hat n «liort time previous i)i requisition backed by the majoilty of the Tatmaimaka Settlers showing thi" necessity of a revision of then bow Ordinance had been placed in his hand for signature. I may perhaps be pardoned in observing tfiaT eTch'fnerrißer'of the" Council tvould best? fulfil hfs trust by endeavouring to find - out the feelings of the public on all question? of 'importance, at it is also your duty and that.of the Electprs of fie Province generally to aid and aWvite the Council. To whnt rflutemust we attribute the *eemtnu indifference nf the Taranaki .Settlers to iheirown interests ? As yet no expression of the views emertained by tlio Public on •n^of lb? various measured brought bifore ih*> Counr il h«« \tfPn given to guide the Hf?ition <if its members, yet there are inrljviduulj now as ready to criticise the ac s of tin Provincj 1 Connc'l as the) wore here-