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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 166, 18 March 1864, Page 5 (Supplement)

TO THOSE ELECTORS WHO FAVOBED ME WITH THEIB SUPPORT ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAST ELECTION OF A MEMBEK pffß THE FKOVINCIAL COUNCIL FOB THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS. GENTLEMEN, —While thanking you for the support you gave to, and the confidence you reposed in me at the late election, it may not be out of place to offer a few remarks upon my conduct in the small politics of this Province. I have, as you are aware, taken the side of the weak against the strong, and in doing so have placed myself in opposition to the Runholders, who, if not strong in talent, are strong in numbers and in influence. I cannot, therefore, be rightly accused of seeking my private interests in opposing theirs. When I took my seat in the Provincial Council for the first, and, as it would seem, for the last time, I narrowly watched the proceedings of my fellow-members, if perchance 1 might gather therefrom what sort of men they were, and what sort of measures they proposed to frame. I need hardly say that it required very little penetration to discover, after a short acquaintance, that with very few exceptions, the men hardly knew what they were about, and their measures, by consequence, lacking wisdom, bordered upon folly. That I should be attacked upon the score of not having done anything during my short sojourn in the Council is ridiculous. That sublime Government over which the Herald watches with such tender solicitude had determined that, if possible nothing should be done, and but for the exercise on the part of the minority of a privilege which enabled them to defeat that nefarious design, the Council would have been hastily summoned to go through the form of assenting to certain Government measures, and would have been as hastily dismissed, without even the small satisfaction of enquiring into the nature of those measures. Let any person dispassionately review the proceedings of the Provincial Council daring its last sitting—let anyone analyse the speeches delivered by the supporters of Government, or the notices of motion, put by them on the paper, and then say whether there is much in those speeches bearing upon the subject under discussion, or whether they are remarkable for anything but flatulency and general windiness. Nor will the patient enquirer find in any of the notices a sign by which it will be known as the result of profound thought in an able head. You never hear much complaint from the Herald about Mr. So-and-so, who is seeking a place, and is, in consequence, an out-and-out supporter of the Government, not doing anything, although it is notorious that he does nothing, represents nobody but himself, and is not capable of doing anything or representing anybody but himself. Nor do you hear of the shortcomings and backslidings of Mr. The-other-one, who wants a bridge built or-a road made for his privateconvenience,and therefore supports the Government. No! Again, in supporting Mr. Colenso, I supported a member who, as far as the proceedings of that Council were concerned, fully expressed my views, and with whom, upon Public matters, I entirely concur. That no new light could be thrown upon matters already discussed threadbare, must be evident to' all thinking men, and equally so that talking for talking’s sake is preposterous. That I entertain personal hostility to the present Government, I deny. It is not likely that a man in my position would attack a powerful local Government, supported by a locally powerful class, unless actuated by some higher motive than personal spite. All that I have got, and all I am likely to get, is abundant abuse from the Government organ, and many more kicks than ha’pence from those who ought to support me, for my disinterested endeavors to assert the rights of a class in this Province, who are, as the Council is now composed, about as much represented therein, as they are represented in the Councils of the Emperor of the French, or in those of the King of Timbuctoo, and which class will some day bitterly reproach the present Government for its present doings.* It will not be long before the inconsistency of Mr. Richardson’s supporters will fall with crushing violence upon their own heads. A people who stone one man for supporting a Government, and at the same time stone another for opposing that Government, are a people laboring under a deficiency of fixed principles, and political morality, mid that which would otherwise be a blessing, will prove a curse. Repeating my thanks for your support, I remain, Gentlemen, Your obdt. servant, O. L. W. BOUSFIELD. Woodthorpe, Bth March, 1864. EOYAL HOTEL. DMUNN, Senior, in returning thanks to the • public of Napier for past patronage, begs to intimate that he has this day taken hisson,t)aniel Munn, junior into partnership with him ; and that the Business as Hotel-keepers will for the future be carried on under the firm of D. MUNN & SON, and under the personal management of the junior partner. DANIEL M. MUNN, Senior. DANIEL MUNN, Junior. Witness to Signatures — Thomas Hitchings, Surgeon, Napier. Napier, March 9, 1864. Steam to Auckland. IHE I.C.R.M Co’s Powebful Scbew Steameb LORD ASHLEY\ 500 tons, Thomas Randall, Esq., Commander, will be despatched for the above port on or about the 24th inst., (carrying H.M. Mails) unless previously engaged by the General Government. For Particulars apply to MALTBY & CO. Agents.