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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 950, 22 February 1871, Page 3

FOR LONDON. IHE iron barque u SAN- . TIAGO," AAI, 455 tons register, Capt. Mills. For Passage only, apply to WATT BROTHERS, or to KTNROSS & Co., 168 Agents.

For Wairoa. IHE new steamer « NAPIER," w Oapt. Bendall, will Bteam~tbr" the above TO-MORROW NIGHT, at 10 o'clock. For Freight or Passage, apply to WATT BROTHERS, Feb. 22, 1871, Agents. To the Town Electors who signed niy Requisition of to-day. GENTLEME N Among your number I observe the names of -several who have given me a steady support through many years. Thanks to such old political friends are there fore specially duo for their continued •confidence in my suitability to represent their interests in the Provincial Council. But very slightly less so are they also due to those gentlemen whom I recognize as new adherents. Thanking you then alike heartily for your tender of support, I have merely further to add that your numbers are not so great a« would justify me in making this election a contested one so far as I am concerned. Your very obedient servant, JOHN BUCHANAN. Napier, Feb. 22, 1871. 192

To the Electors of the Town of Napier. GENTLEMEN,— T am ready again to serve as your representative in the Provincial Council should you desire it. The questions upon which the legis lative action of the Provincial Council can be beneficially exercised are now, I think, few ; and upon most matters the experience gained in past years would -enable the General Assembly to legislate satisfactorily for the Colony as a whole. In a small Province, where the system of responsible Government is impossible, the power of the Council to interfere usefully in the administration of Provincial affairs is much hindered by Ihe fact that the time and duration of its meetings are wholly dependent upon the will of the Superintendent, and that it can only act authoritatively jn the cumbrous form of an Act requiring the Go-.ernor's assent. Jt has become clear to me that a Superintendent not exceptionably unpopular, and not acting for his own private ends, may expend the revenue regaidiess of the mode in which it has bten appropriated by the Council. Before the matter comes before the Council the money has been long sjoent, and they will give their sanction to the expenditure without enquiring too closely into items, rather than leave the Superintendent exposed to personal liability. I should welcome any change in our institutions which would assimilate them more closely to those of the Province of Westland, by entrusting the administration of affairs to a Council meeting under the presidency of the Superintendent at stated periods fixed by itself. The action of the late Provincial Council in abolishing the Executive Council, and that of the Assembly in entrusting to him alone the distribution of the funds available for Road Boards and the regulation of immigration, has greatly increased the powers of the Superintendent. I believe the most important duty wl)ich the Provincial Council has now to discharge is that of making a wise choice of a Superintendent. The greatest blow to Provincial institutions has been struck by the Government of Mr Fox, their reputed (Champion. If there are any question's