RE-ANNEXATION TO NELSON.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 194, 18 September 1869, Page 4

RE-ANNEXATION TO NELSON.

The following is the text of the petition which was got up at the Havelock meeting ; “The humble and respectful Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Town of Havelock, and the Settlers of the Pelorus District, in the Province of Marlborough, to the Honorable the Speaker, and the Honorable Members of the House of Representatives, in session assembled, sheweth—- “ That at a public meeting of your memorialists, in the town of Havelock, in the Province of Marlborough, on the 20th of August, it was unanimously resolved to decline to co-operate with other portions of this Province in opposing the movement in your Honorable House for the re-annexation of this Province to the Province of Nelson ; and that it was further unanimously resolved to memorialise your Honorable House that, should you not deem it wise or expedient to constitute our district a county, with powers of local government, &c., in compliance with our previous prayer, that it may please your Honorable House, at as early a date as possible, to cause our district to be severed from the Province of Marlborough, and to be re-annexed to the Province of Nelson.

“ And your petitioners will ever pray.” We have since learned from our Picton contemporary that there were only nine persons present at the meeting, and but a minority of these \yere electors.