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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 18, 21 January 1871, Page 4

TO ? THE ELECTORS OF NEWZEALAND. | "DROTnER TTI LECTORS —As the Election JL> J2j 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 nfter 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, 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^ and liberties of his constituents and,4ijfei 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 Jaws that exist, s~^ 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 uuiting 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 ? B.— -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 constitutents, submit such measures to them, and be guided by their decision thereon in any vote which yo» give ? 11. — WilKjtou 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 Jo control in regard his acts ? I 14. — Will you holdjyourself to be commissioned to represent, nst the opinions of any class, . . but the griev slices and wants of your constituents ; ana, as a juryman, bound in your conscience to give a true verdict in all matters submitted to you ? 15. — Do you hold tl|e functions of a Minister to consist in the introduction of speculative measures of leg slation, or in the administration of the Co ony ? And will you resist every legislati ej^fUl emanating from, the Governma (Jlrathe grounds that it is a falsineatMdWr ilieir duties, and consequently a Do^mTobsti uction of public business ? 16. — Will you stn mously exert yourself to get the nefarious '. 'ension Act abolished ? 2126 I AN ELECTOR mHE. NELSON EVENING MAIL, published JL every Evening. Price One Peany. ' SCALE OF ADVERTISEMENTS :— First Insertion. Three lines of space and under ... Is. Six.,lines 2s. Nine lines 3s. For every additional line above nine ... 2d. For more than one Insertion. Three lines, 3s. 6d. per week 10s. per month ■: Six lines 7s. Od.. „ 20». „ Nine lines 10s. Od. „ 30s. „ . For longer advertisements, reduced rates. Advertisers are requested to specify ttie number I of insertions on their Advertisements, or "they will j be continued and charged until countermanded. Persons desirous of discontinuing their advertisements must send in a written order to the office, before 10 o'clock a.m. on the day of publication., o__0 __ LIST OF AGENTS. V* Wairaea Road t- — Mrs. "W. Marris. Wakapuaka — • — Mr. T. Gilbert. Stoke — — — Mr. J. T. Smith. Bichmond •— — Mr. W. Galbraith. : Hope — — — Mr. W. Jessop. I ■ Bridge Hotel. — — Mr. S. 8.. Silcock. Spring Grove — — Mr. VV. Botterell. Wakefield — — Mr. EJRooper. „ — — Mr. W. Patterson. Foxhill — — ■ Mr. J. Wagstaff „ — — — ' Mr. J. Gaukrodger Foxhill and Upper Lyell , Mr. J. Grove. Tadmor — — — Mr. Phillips. Wangapeka — — Mr. Hvßarracloiigh Baton — — — Mr. R. Sutcliife. Waimea<West &Appleby Mr. L. Dron. Waimea West — — Mr. P. Spanger. IJpper Moutece • — Mr. C. H. Benseman t. Motueka — — — Mr. S. Buchhblz. „ — — . Mr. J. Myers Motueka and Riwaka Messrs J. Clarke & Co Waitapu— — — Mr. J. Reilly. Takaka — — Mr. A* Dodson. :„ — — ' — Mr. Gj'Saylor. Collingwood — — Mr. W. C. Riley. Westport — — — Mr. T. Anslow. Djmedin, — , — Mr. T.R. Wheeler. Sydney and Melbourne .'. | Messrs. Gordon, and London :.. : — J Gotch.