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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 284, 2 December 1870, Page 4

BIBLES, iv Various Bindings; Plain and Ornamental At R. L.UCAS & RON'S. PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS, with Calico and Leather Joints, for holding 20, 30, 50 F ar.d 100 Portraits, in great variety. R. LUCAS & SON. TO H N pERCT, SHARE BROKER, COMMISSION AND CUSTOM-HOUSE AGENT, NELSON. 2512 NELSON AND MOTUEKA. HTTAYCOCK heps to intimate to the a i~S Public of Nelson and Motueka. that he has COMMENCED EUNMNG A CONVEYANCE between the above places, starting- from the Coach and Horses Hotel, NELSON, on Mondays and Thursdays, at 9 a.m.. and from Mr. Rumuolt's, MOTUEKA, on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 8 a.m. Passengers and Parcels booked at the above addresses. Parcels carefully delivered 2765 TO TBE ELECTORS OF NEW ZEALAND. BROTHER 17 LECTORS —As the Election VJ of Members for the Gent ral Assembly -will shortly take place, I beg; to lay gefore you a series of questions to be put to those bcntlemen v.bo may be desirous of looking after your intere--ls in fhe House of Representatives. Most of these questions ore selected from a number carefully drawn up by a Committee of intelligent men in England, who bad made themselves well acquainted with the laws of their country. 1. — Will you bind yourself to accept from no Minister place, promise, or favor of whatever description, or to look for such ? 2. — Will you oppose evtry measure for the increase of Customs, and use your best endeavours to lessen or abolish them, and will you seek to establish taxation on tbe 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 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 grievances 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 the 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, 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 whilst business is being carried on ? 10. — WiU you, on the proposal of new measure?, convene your constituents, submit such measures to them, aud be guided by their decision thereon in any vote winch you give ? 11. — Will you resist any and every attempt to tamper vrith trial by jury, either by accepting tlie verdict of the majority, or by abolishing the grar.d 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 liis 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 clpss, 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. — Do you hold the functions of a Minister to consist in the introduction of speculative measures of legislation, or in the administration of the Colony ? And will you resist every legislative proposal emanating from the Government, on the grounds that it is a falsifieuticn ef their eludes, and consequently a normal obstruction of public business ? 16. — Will you strenuously exert yourself to get the nefarious Pension Act abolished ? 2126 AN ELECTOR,