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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 305, 27 December 1870, Page 4

BALL-KOOM MANUAL, and ETIQUETTE for LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. A R, LUCAS & SON. . "M E W J> OO K P BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED ■ ano TASTEFULLY BOUND. , JUST RECEIVED AND ON SALE AT T> T UCAS & BRIDGE STREET. H. J. L. A nGASDE ~ STOCK AND SHARE BROKER COMMISSION AND ESTATE AGENT, VALUATOR AND ASSIGNEE, CATTLE, SHEEP, and HORSE SALESMAN Trafalgar- street, Nelson. 1368 JOHN T)ERCY, SHARE BROKER, COMMISSION AND CUSTOM-HOUSE AGENT, NELSON. 2512 NELSON AND MOTUEEA. HTTAYCOOK begs to intimate to the • i~i Public of Nelson and Motneka, -that he has COMMENCED RUNNING A CONVEYANCE between the above places, starting from the Coach and Horses Hotel, NELSON, on Mondays and Thursdays, at 9 a.m., *nd from Mr. Ecmbolt's, MOTUEKA, on Tuesdr.ys and Fridays, at 8 a.rn. Passengers and Parcels booked at the above addresses. Parcels -carefully delivered 2765 TO THE ELECTORS OF NEW ZEALAND. BROTHER T7ILECTORS— As the Election Vl of Members for the General Assembly will shortly take, place, I beg to lay ?>efore you a series of questions to be put to those gentlemen who may be desirous of looking after jour interests in the House of Representatives. jMost 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, 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 ? -t.^-Db you* h-ld'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^gj«ini* Ministerit, or : _h having opinions upon abstract subjects ? tS.— Dcoyqii 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 the country ? And are you possessed of that knowledge ? tS. — Can you declare, on your honor as a gentle man, that you will, on every occasion, without tear or favor, pursue every doubtful ense 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 ? 3.0. — Will you, on the proposal of new measures, convene your constitutents, submit such measures to th.ru, and be guided by Their decision thereon in any vote which j ou give ? •II. — Will you resist any and every iUtempt to tamper with tria) by jury, either by accepting the verdict ot the majority, or by abolishing the grard jury. '12. — Will you try every rrnans to exclude placemen from the House of Representatives ? .!& — 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? 34-. — Will you hold yourself to be commissioned to 'represent, not the opinions of any class, '•ut the grievances and wants of your con."■tiui.nts ; and, as a juryman, bound in ><■»!• conscience to give a true verdict in all matters submitted to you ? 535. — Do you hold the' functions of a Minister to roj.sist in the introduction of sptculative tjiensures of legislation, pr in the aoministialion ot the Colony ? And will you resist every legislative proposal emanating from tin Go-vernnient, on the grounds that it is a lalsifieatien cf tlieir duties, and consequently a i-oimal obstruction of.public business ? :S€. — "Will you strenuously exert yourself to get ti e nefarious Pension Act abolished ? :2i26 AN ELECTOR.