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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 61, 27 October 1855, Page 2

mO E. W. STAFFORD, ESQ., i JL Superintendent of the Province of Nelson. ' Sie — We, the undersigned Electors of the Town of Nelson, request that you will allow jouvself to be nominated for a seat in the House of Representatives. In soliciting you to como forward as a candidate for an office which must withdraw you for a certain time from the Province, and the duties of which must necessarily add considerably to your labours, we feel that we are inviting a sacrifice on the part of the ' community generally, to whom your absence may be productive of some inconvenience, as well as to yourself, by seeking to impose on you an additional and I onerous office. But, while we anticipate on the part 5 of the Province a ready acquiescence in our request, , from the important sei'vico your presence in the House ■ of Representatives would be likely to render, so on your own part, that zeal for the public welfare which you have ever evinced, leads us to believe that you • would not be unwilling to undertake the important task of personally advocating our interests in the parliament of the colony, if elected thereto by the suffrages of your fellow settlers. We cannot be insensible to the critical position in wliich this colony now stands. The institutions ■ which have been conceded to us arc now for the first ' time practically to bo put on trial, and we view it as ; of the utmost importance that at this juncture our ; Representatives in the General Assembly should, from principle, no less than from inclination, be men i who are both willing and able tp support as well as give force to our Constitution Act. Looking, also, to • tho perplexing financial questions -which liavo arisen between the Provinces and the General Government, • the withdrawal of large portions of our revenue, . whereby the funds available for public works are most i ruinously diminished, and to the opportunities which your office of Superintendent of Nelson have given you of acquiring an intimate acquaintance with the • circumstances bearing upon the above, and the claims for a refunding of its revenue which this Province is entitled to make, we know no one so well qualified . as yourself to assert our pecuniary rights and claim ( their enforcement. We have the honour to remain, [ Sir, ( Your obedient servants, C. Elliott George Aiken Geo. Ridings Joseph Winterbum . D. Moore John Armstrong . E. Baigent Joseph Taylor t R. K. Newcomo Wm. Wilkie A. C. McDonald William Crowther ! E. H. Enes Blackmoro A. McGee j D. Johnslone John Barrett i Chas. Empson Adam Jackson Robt. John Creasy Thomas Rollison Nathaniel Edwards Thomas Askew Thos. Gaukroger J. S. M. Jaeobsen IT. L. N. Clarke Joseph White Wm. Wells Qeorge Edwards R. P. Outridge G. Coates Geo. Hooper J. Newman T. C. Batchelor John Ladd W, Hough William Snow Robert Powell Henry Hargreaves G. W. Lightband Wi liani Jennings A. Aitken William Taylor Jas. L. Bailey A. Eankin * John Tregea Thomas Sullivan A. G. Jenkins B. Walmsley G. W. Schroder J. Elliott William Dane Alfred Dobson John F. M'Glashen W. Crowther D. Sclandera Vaughan Jone3 R. Ray „ r ~ • 1 1».Q7. T froug3on GcOi'lVj^^ ' H. C. Daniell D. Macintosh W. Moorhouse W. R. Nicholson Thomas Dawes 11. Redwood Thomas Brunner M. W. Lightband Charles Harloy G. W. Lightband, jun. J. F. Wilson George Coward W. Dyson Henry D. Jackson ' David Allan T. D. Nicholson Herbert Evelyn Curtis Robert Ross James Gorrie Charles Bonnington | John Carter' ■ George Ross Robert Hunter Thomas Goodman G. Batchelor Jonathan Liviek Thomas Rich W. M. Stanton i Oswald Curtia Arthur T. Daniell William Skeet Charles Lucas Edward Bollon James Chas. Phillips Jacob Franks To Mr. C. Elliott, and the other Electors who havo .signed the above Requisition. Gentlemen — I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your request that I should become a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives. Questions of grave importance, arising out of the operation of the Constitution Act, the settlement of which can no longer be postponed, will come under the con&ideratiou of the next Assembly. The task which will necessarily devolve upon your representatives, in the endeavour to effect such an adjustment of these questions as may be alike consonant with justice and conducive to your prosperity, is augmented by the circumstance that with respect to some of them your interests are in opposition to those of other portions of the colony. In complying, therefore, with your request on the present occasion, I am aware that I am likely, if elected, to impose on myself no inconsiderable addition to the amount of public duties which now claim my attention. The terms of your Requisition, however, which is so numerously and influentially signed, preclude me from refusing to assist in removing, if possible, those obstacles to the progress of the province to wliich you allude. It remains for me to observe, that previous to my election as Superintendent, I declared that it was not nay intention to become a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives. Although I believe it may fairly be inferred from your present request, and from the fact that I have received a similar invitation from (he electors of two other constituencies, that whatever might previously have bepn tho opinion of some of the electors on this quest ioii their sentiments have undergone a change, I cannot consent to incur the imputation of having ignored a public declaration ; I have therefore determines to resign that office, in order to place myself in th/same position in which I was previous to making /hat declaration. £f/ I remjun, Gentlemen, with great respect, j'£ < / Your obedient servant, j-T^f \y E- W. Staffoed. Nelson, 24th October, 1855. VICTORIA CIRCUS. Proprietor, W. H. FOLEY. REDUCTION OF PRICES.— Boxes, 45. ; Pit, 2s. FOR TWO NIGHTS MORE. THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 27, The Entertainments will consist of a Variety and Change of Performances. NOTICE. — The Performance advertised to take place on Tuesday next, in AID of the WIDOW and ORPHANS' FUND of the Nelson District of the Order of ODD FELLOWS, WILL NOT TAKE PLACE, in consequence of the Concert to be given on the following Thursday at the'opening of tho Odd Fellows' Hall. / / On MONDAY NEXT,/vhich will bo POSITIVELY THE /LAST NIGHT, The Circus will again be opened. — For particulars, sec hand-bills of the day. Doors open at Seven, and the Performance to commence at Eight o'clock. {jj^gT It is particularly requested that all demands upon Mr. Folcy nW be ttnmediately sent in for liquidation, at the Trafalg«i>llotcl. JUST OPENED, au assortment of Scythes and Handles, Rubbers and Strickles. , ' T. C. Batchelob, /^ •'<] v Bridgr-ibt/eet.