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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1556, 15 June 1885, Page 4

Requisition. fJIO EDWARD GEORGE WRIGHT, ESQ. Sib, —We, the undersigned electors of Wakanui District, recognising your political ability and experience in public affairs, request that you will allow yonrself to be nominated for the vacant seat in the House of Representatives for the Wakanui District. In the event of your, acceding to this request we pledge oar' selves te use our best exertions to secure your election : Donald Williamson Andrew Orr J. J. Dawson George Oole James E. Trevor James Hampton Wm. Harvey Bell B. Clarke G. Grice Thomas Holmes T. Franks Thomas Soal F. Hydes F. Stigley Albert Betts 0. Thornton Dudley John Smith T. Richardson Gilbert McLean B. Hampton E. Collison David Wilson B. Graham David McLeary George Brown Robert Maxwell Malcolm Miller Veter Stewart James Elliot George Wilson William Brown David Johnson John Withell Alfred Megson James Wilson Andrew Leatham James Trevurza David McGombe W. T. Sutton Andrew Sturgeon George W. Leech Thomas Tilson A. J. Huston John Mawson G. N. Raymond Joseph Megson A. Bight H. Margetts D. Margetts O. E. Fawcett R. Lancaster Joseph Lloyd F. Cass John Gudsell John Tait Henry James F. T. Mayo Peter Chalmers Thomas Patterson Samuel Brown James Allan Samuel Thomas George Coe Pater Innis Thomas P. J. Hughes H enry Lockett Robert Bennett William Jamieson Thomas Wilson John H. Dean James Jamieson Thomas Glephane W. J. Wilson Samuel McLeary W. L. Allen Edwin Thomas George Tait G. W. Leadley W. H. Williamson A. Oookaon William Tunis John Cochrane John Shearer W. Gibson W. Luecombe C. Newbury J. 0. N. Grigg Hugh McGuigen Caleb Dailey Peter Carsou Thomas Sampson James Milne James Prior Stephen Poole P. Reeves G. Gilmour M. Griffen E. H. Dobson W. T. Lill M. Hammond M. Bruce J. Lambio G. T. Smith William Dawson L. Maugham William Strachan J. Q. Cox R. McDonald R. Friedlander A. Roberta J. Baylis P. Crumb G. Tutty James Allen H. Dailey William Adams G. W, Andrews T. Sealy W. White Mark Anthony Moses Hammond O. W. Purnell W. H. Zouch F. Ferrlmau James Leonard William Cheat J. Crum E. Caske R. Wiggins A. Crowfoot T. Andrews T. Pritchard Thomas Tilley J. W, Baker B. Rooke T. Physio J. Hunt William Rose M. Ibell W. G. St Hill H. M. Jones W. Cairncrosa W. B. Denshire J. W. Hampton J Sealy D. McLean J. 0. Bell E. G. Crisp William Patching L. Rattray T.Revell Thomas Walsh J. Orr M. Friedlander J. A. Oaygill W. D. ' eaumont John Jeffs J Gill W. Dailey J. Edwards T. Dunn H. Evans D, Phelps J. Addis L. Cawsey R. Jamieson P. Fawcett J. Ashton J. Hurrell A. James J. R. Steel A. Mulford B. Williamson H. Hunt William Bradbury Thomas Langley William Sparrow S. Mullins D. Rood J. M. Smith John Johnston William Baxter George Parkin John Curtis W. H. Guudry J. Sturgeon J. Taylor Alfred Curtis F. McGuire C. Homersham William Harding William Anderson John Harrison J. Dick Hugo Friedlander W. H.McGuinneas James Osborne Robert Beattie John Beattie James Beattie Edward Sydney Lowe J. H. Rogers W. Harrison H. J. Harrison James Moore Thomas Dalton David Butter iok Robert Cleland James Nicholson George Lamb Thomas Greenaway Alfred Gary John Bell Thomas Steel J. H. Bond T. W. Hocken James Millar John Murray Robert t'tophenson William Hawkins William Lidstone P. McOonnel James Swan W, G. Stoddart Andrew Dawson Edwin Horsey 0. P Cox R. Gilmour E. Cluoas Joseph Taylor W.H. Roe James Gellatley James Scott H. Grayburn Thomas Perks William Mcßae O. Digby D. Thomas T. Taylor Wm. Duncan James Elliott Thomas Bollock Windermere, 6th Jane, 1885. Gbhtleubn I , —Your requisition, inviting me to stand for Wakanui, adds ooe more to the many tokens of goodwill which I have received from my fellow settlers in the County of Ashburton. Although I would much prefer at the present time to take no further burdens upon my shoulders, I feel that a requisition such as that which you have presented to me is almost of the nature of a command to discharge a public duty. 1 therefore have the honor to accept yonr invitation, and will take an early opportunity of addressing the electors. Having been amongst the first to invite Sir Julius Vogel to stand for Ashburton I shall, if returned, be prepared to support whatever measures he may bring forward in the interests of the Colony. I would support such measures of the Customs Tariff as would conduce t the establishment of any industry which gave promise of flourishing in the land ; but I would object to the imposition of heavy duties to stimulate enterprises which would collapse whenever that support might be withdrawn. 1 should vote for the purchase of the District Railways, at an equitable price, as between the shareholders of the railways and the ratepayers of the colony, and would advocate the repeal of the Act as a measure which should never have been placed upon the Statute Book. The Railway between Canterbury and the West Coast I regard as a work of Colonial importance, which the Government should take in hand immediately, should it not be taken up by a London Syndicate. Upon the question of Federation, I am of opinoin that New Zealand should, as far as possible, retain independence of action, and that the questions to be determined by a Federal Council should be limited to defence against a common enemy, the exclusion of European criminals from the Islands of the South Seas, and other matters in which there could be no clashing of Australian with New Zealand interests I am, Gentlemen, Your very obedient Servant, EDWARD Q. WRIGHT, To T onald Williamson, Esq., and the other gentlemen signing the renin ti on.

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