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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 278, 25 November 1870, Page 4

TffEW jDOOK? BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED AKD TASTEFULLY BOUND JUST BECEIVED AND ON SALE AT EJ UCAS & CON'S, • JU D BRIDGE STREET. JOHN BERCY, JL SHARE BHOKEH, COMMISSION AND CUSTOM-HOUSE AGENT, KELSON. 2512 KELSON AND MOTUEKA. ! HTTAYCOCK bops to intimate to the j c i~j Public of Nelfon and Motuelcs, j that he has COMMENCED RUNNING A! CONVEYANCE between the above places, starting 1 from ihe Coach and Houses Uoti-.1, NELSON, on Hominy s and Thursdays, at 9 a.m., and from Mr. Hcsiboi.t's, MOTUEKA, on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 8 a.m. Passengers and Parcels booked at the above addresses. Parcels carefully delivered 2765 DAILY COACH FROM KELSON TO FOXHILL. 'TII/'B undersigned respectfully informs theJL inhabitants of Nelson and (lie Wainu-as that he runs v COACH DAILY between Eoxhill and Nelson; leaving Foxhill at half-pr.st 7 o'clock a.m. and Nelson at 3 p.m. Cooking Offices at the "Waliatu and Commercial Hotels, Trafalgar-street. 1574 FRANCIS HOLDER. TO THE ELECTOES OF NEW ZEALAND. T) ROTHER 17 LECTORS —As tlie Election _O JIJ of Members for the Gent ral Assembly will shortly take place, I beg to lay gefore you a series of questions lo bo put to those btntkmtn wLo may be desirous ot looking rffer your interests in the Home of Representatives. Most of thefe questions r.re selected from a number carefully drawn up by a Committee of intelligent men in England, who had made themselves well acquainted with ihe laws of their country. 1. — Will you bind jourfelf to accept from no Minister place, promise, or favor of whatever description, or to look for such ? 2. — Will you oppose every measure for the increase of Customs, and use your best endeavours to lessen or abolish them, and will you seek to establish taxation on the scale of property ? 3. — Do you bind yourself to resist by every means every vote of money incurred or to be incurred for purposes that are not strictly lawful, or strictly necessary ? 4. — Do you bold 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 f to be the eniorcing of the iaws 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 i 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 the transactions in which the Government involves the 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 lear 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 measures, convene your constitutentf, submit such measures to thtm, and 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 majority, or byabolishing the grand jury. 12. — Will you fry 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 ail matters submitted to you ? 15. — Do you hold the functions of a Minister to consist iv the introduction of s-pcculative measures of legislation, or in the administ'ation of the Colony ? And M-ill you resist every legislative proposal emanating from the Government, ou the grounds that it is a falsification of.their duties, and consequently a normal obstruction of public business ? 16. — Will you strenuously exert yourself to get the nti'aiiouß Pension Act abolished ? 2126 AN ELECTOR,