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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 279, 26 November 1870, Page 4

7VTEW J> ook c* BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED AND TASTEFULLY BOUND JUST EECEIVED AND ON SALE AT T3 T UCAS & BRIDGE STREET. JOHN DEECY, SHARE BROKER, COMMISSION AND CUSTOM-HOUSE AGENT, NELSON. 2512 NELSON AND MOTUEKA. V _____ HTTAYCOOK begs to intimate to the • 1~l Public of Nelson and Motueka. , that he has COMMENCED RUNNING A CONVEYANCE between the above places, starting from the Coach and Horses Hotfx. NELSON, on Mondays and Thursdays, at 9 a.m., and from Mr. Rdmbolt's, MOTUKKA, on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 8 a.m. Passengers and Parcels booked at tbe above addresses. Parcels carefully delivered 2765 DALLY COACH FROM NELSON TO FOXHILL. THE undersigned respectfully informs the inhabitants of Nelson and the Waimeas that he runs a COACH DAILY between Foxhill and Nelson; leaving Foxhill at half-past 7 o'clock a.m. and Nelson at. 3 p.m. Booking Offices at the Walatu and Commercial Hotels, Trafalgar-street. 1574 FRANCIS HOLDER. TO THE ELECTORS OF NEW ZEALAND. BROTHER in LECTORS —As the Election Jt__ 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 , bentlemen who may be desirous of looking after > your interests in the House of Representatives, Most of these questions are Eelected from a number carefully drawn up by a Committee of intelli- - gent men in England, -who had made themselves ■ well acquainted with the laws of their country. . i, — Will you bind yourself to accept from nc > Minister place, promise, or favor of whatevei ' description, or to look for such ? 2. — Will you oppose every measure for the increase of Customs, and use your best e ndeavours to lessen or abolish them, and will i 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 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 tbe 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 grievances with a view to their redress, or in- uniting himself to a party ? 7,__Do you hold that a Member recruires 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, with- ■ out teaT or favor, pursue every doubtful case to its issue, and enforce reparation when wrong has been done ? 9. — Will you do all you can to enforce the attendance of every member in his place 1 whilst business is being carried on ? 1 10. — Will you, on the proposal of new measures, convene your constitutents, submit such measures to thtni, 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 by abolishing the grand jury. ■ 12. — Will you try every means to exclude placemen from the House of Representatives ? t 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 1 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 r your conscience to give a true verdict in all matters submitted to you ? l 15. — Do you hold the functions of a Minister tn r consist in the introduction of sp culative ■ measures of legislation, or in the administration ot the Colony ? And will you ret-isl 5 ever}' legislative proposal emanating fron t the Government, on the grounds thiit it is : ialsifi' aticn vf the ir duties, and consequently a t.pimal obstruction of public business ? 16. — Will you strenuously e-xert yourself , to gei ' the nefarious Pension Act abolished ? 3 2126 AN ELECTOR.