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Dunstan Times, Issue 465, 17 March 1871, Page 2

As we are now . upon to decide who shall be.-our representative in the Provincial Council a word to our readers upon the subject may' not be out of place. We have elected Mr. T. L., Shepherd as our representative in the General Assembly, and we cannot do better, even as a matter of expediency, than elect him as our delegate to the Provincial Council. It will he most advantageous to the interests of the district, that the two offices should be filled by one and the same gentleman, a* 'die will be in a position to.siVpjWi Jim own measures in both houses. It must bo recollected that in most, all important cases, what is adopted in the Provincial Council requires to be Confirmed by the General Assembly, or needs the consent of the Colonial Executive therefore what emanates from the Provincial Council is merely in the form of a recommendation. It becomes thus the more necessary that one member should represent us in both houses of legislature. We have no desire to the Vumpet of Mr. Shepherd his cause, still we believe him to be a consistent member, and during his past career as representative of the goldfields he ably and zealously advocated the mmers’cause. In fact bo was always to be found at his post, when others were wanting.