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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 303, 4 September 1865, Page 2

The requisition to Mr M’Lean, with its accompanying list of signatures, lias at length been made public in the advertising columns of our contemporary; and the reason it deceived so many is now clearly apparent. Not one word is mentioned of the member it is intended he should displace; and therefore it is not to be wondered at that so few thought it was Mr Colenso. It does not eevn mention the seat it is proposed that he shall occupy. The District of Napier is not so much as alluded to throughout the document, which simply requests that he will allow himself to be put in nomination for a seat in the General Assembly,—which seat may be for Timbuctoo for anything that appears to the contrary. But this is not the only trick that has been tried, and successfully too, to gain signatures. We have been informed by some of the victims that they had no idea whatever that it was such a requisition, but leliveed, that it was nothing more than a petition to the General Government for the annexation of the Poverty Bay district to this Province !! We are happy to know that the warning note raised by us has beeu the moans of putting many of the electors on their guard, who would otherwise have probably fallen into the snare ; and there are several who do not at all relish the trick played upon them, and of whom the party will be disappointed when the day of trial comes.