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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 37, 13 February 1871, Page 4

TO THE ELECTORS OF NEW ZEALAND. BROTHER T7< LECTORS —As the I'kction JLj of Metnbci s for ihe Gem ra 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 of looking sifter your interests in the House of Representatives Most of these questions are selected from a numvber carefully drawn up by a Committee of intelli- ■ gent men in England, who had made themselves w4l acquainted with the laws of their country. 1. — Will you hind yourself to accept from no / Minister place, promise, or favor of whatever I description, or to look for such ? 2. — Will you oppose evtry measure for the inI crease 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 ym bind yourself to resist by every means every vote of money incurred or to. be incurred for purposes Lhat 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^fc^ opinions upon obstract subjects ? "^ J*-s-Do you conceive the business of a Minister / / Ho be the enlorcing of the Jaws 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 ? t 7. — Do you lio'd that a Member requires any qualifications, such as the knowledge of Constitutional Law, and of the transactions in which the GoA r ernment involves the coun-f | try ? 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 lear 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 cm ? 10. — Will you, on the proposal of new measures, convene your ; ;constilutent? Jt submit such measures tojtfiem, and be guided by their decision th^eon in any vot^-which you give ? J* 11. — Will you resisp^any and every attempt to tamper with^tfial by jury, tithyrby 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 to 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. rpHE NELSON EVENING MAIL, published JL every Evening. Price One Penny. SCALE OF ADVERTISEMENTS :— First Insertion. Three lines of space and under ... l». Six lines ... 2?. Nine lines ... 3?. For every additional line above nine ... 2d. For more than one Insertion. Three lines, 3s. 6d. \ er 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 wiJ 1 be continued and charged until countermanded. Persons desirous of discontinuing their advertisements must send in a written order to \he office, before 10 o'clock a.m. on the day of ptf-'^m lication. VPH LIST OF AGENTS. Waimea Road — — Mrs. W. Marris. Wakapuaka — — Mr. T. Gilbert. Stoke ~ — — Mr. J. T. Smith. Richmond — — Mr. W. Galbraith. Hope — — — Mr. W. Jcssop. Bridge Hotel— — Mr. S. B. Siicock. Spring Grove — — Mr. W. Bottereil. Wakefield — — Mr. E. Hooper. i „ — — Mr. W. Patterson. Foxhill — — . Mr. J. Wagstaff „ — — — Mr. J. Gaukrodger. Foxhill and Upper Lyell Mr. J. Grove. j Tadmor — — — Mr. Phillips. Wangapeka — — Mr. 11. Barraclough Baton — . — — Mr. R. Sutcliffe. Waimea West & Appleby Mr. L. Dron. Waimea West — — Mr. P. Spanger. Upper Moutere — Mr. C. H. Benseman Mptueka — — — Mr. S. Buchholz. •■ „ — — Mr. J. Myers Motueka and Riwaka Messrs J. Clarke & Co Waitapu — . — — Mr. J. Reilly. Takaka — — Mr. A. Dodson. „ — — — Mr. G. Taylor. Collingwood — — Mr. W, C. Riley. Westport — — — Mr. T. Anslow. Dunedin — — Mr. T. R. Wheeler. Sydney and Melbourne . . | Messrs. Gordon and London ... — j Gotch.