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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 287, 6 December 1870, Page 4

JOHN BEECT, SHARE BROKER, COMMISSION AND CUSTOM-HOUSE AGENT, NELSON. 2512 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 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. FEATHER DUSTERS, cheap, at R. LUCAS & SON'S. BIBLES, in Various Bindings ; Plaiu and Ornamental At R. LUCAS & SON'S. PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUMS, with Calico and Leather Joints, for holding 20, 30, 50S at:d 100 Portraits, in great variety. . R. LUCAS & SON. NELSON AND MOTUEKA. HTTAYCOCK begs to intimate to the • JUL Public of Nelson and Motueka, that he has COMMENCED RUNNING A CONVEYANCE between the above places, starting from ihe Coach and Horses Hotel, NELSON, on Mondays and Thursdays, at 9 a.m., and from Mr. Rubibolt's, MOTUEKA, on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 8 a.m. Passengers and Parcels booked at the above addresses. Parcels carefully delivered 2765 TO THE ELECTORS OF NEW ZEALAND. BROTHER T^ LECTORS— As the Election JLJ of Members for the General Assembly will shortly take place, I beg to lay gefore you a series of questions to be put to those bentlemen wbo 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 you bind yourself 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, aDd 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 hy every means every vote of money incurred or to be incurred for purposes that arc 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 8 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 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 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. — Will you, on. the proposal of new measures, convene your constitutent?, submit such measures to them, 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 ? 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 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. — 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 tlie Government, on the grounds that it is a falsification cf their duties, and consequently a normal obstruction of public business ? 16. — Will you strenuously exert yourself to get the nefarious Pension Act abolished ? 2126 AN ELECTOR.