WE SAT E AEEIY ED HERE WE AEE!!;! .. : . ■■ 0COME AND SEE US ! AT ' S. ,M. SOLOMON- & CO.'S, ' ; TRAFALGAR STREET. 1. o — PER < OMEO ' AND < RANGITOTO,.' JUST OPENED A Magnificent Lot of SUMMER CLOTHING AND, " SHIRTS. ■ : * ■ mo
MONEY T ENT on every Description of JLi Goods, at lowest rates, in large or small sums, at the MONT DE PIETE, Bridge-street. N.B. Closed from Friday Evening until Saturday Evening at Dusk. 1461 TO THE ELECTORS OF NEW ZEALAND. BROTHER T^LECTfiRS— As the Election Hi of Members for the General Assembly will shortly, take ..place, I beg to lay before you a series of questions to be put to those gentlemen who may be desirous ot looking after your interests in the House of Representatives. ;Most of these questions are selected from a num--ber 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, nr 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 hold the duties of a Member of the House of Representatives to consist in protecting the- pockets, morals, trade, rights, andYliberties of his constituents and the - country against Minister**, or in having opinions upon abstract siilijects ? s,— Do you conceive, the business of a Minister to be the eniorcing bf the. laws that exist, or the making of new ones ? V 6.— Do you hold the duties of ii Metnber to consist ;in thief- enquiry into grievances' with : a • view 1 to their redress", br in uniting himself ■'-fotf^Mty'r ■•■ 7; ,: y V., r.-',' M ..0 ' £7.__Po you hojd that, a Member ''requires any' , qualification***, such as 'tn'e" krioWMge of ' Constitutional Law, and pf the 1 transactions in wHich the, Government' inyolyeß'tHe'conh-' try ?"' And are you possessed of that'khbw- . ledge? . ;"'"/" "'■','..," .", *..,"! *'*'' " ; 8.7-Can yqiu declarej on your, honor as a, gentle • man; that you will, on every occasion' without tear or favorj pursue every doubtful case to its issue, and /enforce rtparatioh wjien wrong has been done ?, 9. — Will you do all you can to enforce, the at- . , tendance of every member in. his place whilst business is being carried on ? 10. — Will yon, on the proposal of new ■. measures, convene your constifntentf*, 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.— D0 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 falsification of their duties, and consequently a normal obstruction of public business ? 16. — Will you strenuously exert yourself to get the nefarious Pension Act abolished ? 2126 r ■ ■ AN ELECTOR.. EED TTOUSE, RED ' HOUSE, RED JUL HOUSE, Bridge-street! The Cheapest House in Town ibr New FUUNITURE, Feather Beds, Pillows, and Mattresses. Single Mattresses,! warranted all Flax, 8/-; Double do, do,, 17/6 ; aU kinds of Furniture, equally cheap !■ Red 'House, Bridge-street.' E. F. CAMPBELL, Manager. 1 1463
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 307, 29 December 1870, Page 4
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