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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 19, 23 January 1871, Page 4

TO THE ELECTORS OF NEW ZEALAND. BROTHER JJ\ LECTORS.— As the Election Xii 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 number carefully drawn up by a Com mittee. 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 in-, crease of Custdms^MM use your best endeavours to lesjjflfltMF abolish them, and will you seektp^lffiablish taxation on the scale of propeJ-ry? * 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 MiniaMjfcJ -»». to be. the eniorcing of the laws that exisF^ \ 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 ? 8. — Can you declare, on your honor as a gentle man, that you will, oneaffy occasion, without tear or favor, |ijpj_eevery doubtfiilcase to its issue, anjj^inforce reparation when wrong has hgpfPdqne ? 9. — Will you ao all ybn can to enforce the attendance of eveiy member in his place whilst business is being carried on ? 10.— Will you, on i the proposal of new measures, convene your constitutents, submit such measures to them, and be guided by their decision^ thereon in any vote which you give ? • 11. — Will you resist jany and every attempt to tamper with trial by jury, either by accepting the verdict fof the majority*^ by abolishing the gra&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 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 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 AN ELECTOR THE NELSON EVENING MAIL, published every Evening. Price One Penny. SCALE OF ADVERTISEMENTS :— \ First Insertion. '. Three lines of space and under ... Is. Six lines V 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. „ 20s. „ Nine lines 10s. Od. „ 30s. „ For longer advertisements, reduced rates. Advertisers are requested to specify the number of insertions on their Advertisements, or they will be continued and charged untU^untermanded, Persons desirous ofjdiscptfunuing their advertisements must send |ij»sr written order to the office, before 10 o'cMck a.m. on the day of publication, fd \ ' ~Pd" . n ___" X'- ~° .-" UST <|F AGENTS. -*L* Waimea Road — * . — Mrs. W. Marris. " TM Wakapuaka— 4- Mr. T. Gilbert. ? Stoke — — — Mr. J. T. Smith, ; Richmond — — Mr. W. Galbraith. Hope • — — — Mr. W. Jessop. ; Bridge Hotel— — Mr. S. B. Sileock. - Spring Grove — — Mr. W. BottereU. Wakefield — — Mr. E. Hooper. „ — — Mr. W. Patterson. Foxhill — — . Mr. J. Wagstaff „ — — __ Mr. J. Gaukrodger Foxhill and Upper Lyell Mr. J. Grove. Tadmor. — — — Mr. Phillips. Wangapeka— — Mr. H. Barraclough Baton — — — Mr. R. Sutcliffe. Waimea West & Appleby Mr. L. Dron. Waimea West — — Mr. P. Spanger. lAper Moutere , ' — Mr. C. H. Benseman Motueka — — . * — Mr. S. Buchholz. J „ — — -Mr. J. Myers Motueka and Riwaka Messrs J. Clarke & Co Waitapu — — — Mr. Ji Reilly. Takaka — — Mr. A. Dodson. .- jt ___ — ' — Mr. G. Taylor. Collingwood — — Mr. W. C. Riley. Westport — • " — — Mr. T. Anslow. Dunedin — — Mr. T. R. Wheeler. Sydney and Melbourne . . I Messrs. Gordon and London "... "' — ) ' Gotcha .