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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 277, 24 November 1870, Page 4

N E w B OOKF BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED AND TASTEFULLY BOUND JUST RECEIVED AND ON SALE AT TJ T UCAS & QON'S, BRIDGE STREET. JOHN -pERCY, SHARE BROKER, COMMISSION AND CUSTOM-HOUSE AGENT, NELSON. 2512 NELSON AND MOTUEKA. HTTAYCOCK begs to intimate to the « JLL Public of Nelson and Motueka, I that he has COMMENCED BUNKING A ! CONVEYANCE between the above places, j starting from the Coach avt> Horses Hotel. I NELSON, on Mondays and Thursdays, at 9 a.m., aud from Mr. Rumboi/t's, MOTUEKA, on | Tuesdr.ys and "Fridays, at 8 a.m. Passengers and Parcels booked at the above addresses. Parcels carefully delivered 2765 DAILY COACH FROM NELSON TO FOXHILL. THE undersigned respectfully informs the inhabitants of Nelson and the Waimea s that he runs a COACH DAILY between Foxhill and Nelson; leaving Eoxhill at half-past 7 o'clock a.m. and Nelson at 3 p.m. Booking Offices at the Wakatu and Commercial Hotels, Trafalgar-street. 1574 FRANCIS HOLDER. TO TUE ELECTORS OF NEW ZEALAND. BROTHER TnLECTORS —As the Election j___ of Members for the Gent rai Assembly will shortly take place, I beg to lay gefore you a series of questions to be put to those bcntlemen who may be desirous of looking after your interests in the House of "Representatives, Most of these questions are selected from a number carefully drawn up by a Committee of intelligent men in England, who had made themselves well acquainted with the laws of their country. 1. — Will ycu bind yourself to accept from nc Minister place, promise, or favor of whatevei description, or to lock for such ? 2. — Will you oprose every measure for the increase of Customs, and use your best endeavours to lessen or abolish them, and will you setk to establish taxation on the scale . of property ? 3. — Do you bind yourself to resist by every means every vote of money incurred or tc be incurred for purposes that are not strictly lawful, or strictly necessary ? 4. — Do you hold the duties of a Member of the House of Representatives to consist in protecting the pockets, morals, trade, rights, and liberties of his constituents and the country against Ministers, or in having opinions upon abstract subjects ? | 5. — Do you conceive the business of a Minister to be the enforcing of the laws that exist, or the making of new ones ? 6. — Do you hold the duties of a Member to consist in the enquiry into grievance s with a view to their redress, or in uniting himself to a party ? 7. — Do you hold that a Member requires any qualifications, such as the knowledge of Constitutional Law, and of tbe transactions in which the Government involves tlie country ? And are you possessed of that knowledge ? 8. — Can you declare, on your honor as a gentle man, that you will, on every occasion, without tear or favor, pursue every doubtful case to its issue, ami enforce reparation when wrong has been done ? 9. — Will you do all you can to enforce the attendance of every member in his place whilst business is being carried on ? 10. — Will you, on the proposal of new measure I*,1 *, convene your constitutents, subrait such measures to them, aud be guided by their decision thereon in any vote which you give ? 11. — Will you resist any and every attempt to tamper with trial by jury, either by accepting the verdict of the minority, or by abolishing the grand jury. 12. — Will you try every means to exclude placemen from the House of Representatives ? 13. — Will you hold the Minister to be the person whom you are sent neither to support nor oppose, because of his opinions, but to supervise and to control in regard to his acts? 14. — Will you hold yourself to be commissioned to represent, not the opinions of any class, but the grievances and wants of your constituents ; and, as a juryman, bound in your conscience to give a true verdict in all matters submitted to you ? 15.— D0 you hold the functions of a Minister t.i consist in the introduction of speculative measures of legislation, or in the administration oi the Colony ? And will you resist every legislative proposal emanating fron the Government, on the grounds that it is i falsification of their duties, and consequently a normal obstruction of public business ? 16. — Will you strenuously exert yourrclf to gel tbe nefarious Pension Act abolished ? 2126 AN ELECTOR,