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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 62, 31 October 1855, Page 1

OPENING OF THE ODD FELLOWS' HALL. THE above HALL will be OFENWon THURSDAY * NEXT, November "1, T>y"His Honor. the Superintendent; ftt which' ceremony, the public Of Nelson, and all well-wishers of tfee Order, are respectfully invited to be present. The procession will start from the junction of Bridge and Trafalgar Streeto^at Two o'clock, p.m. In the Evening a CONCERT will be giren in the Hall, at which. severM ladies and gentlemen have promised their kind assistance. The entire proceeds will be deroted to the Building Fund. Single Tickets, 3».-6d. ; Family Tickets (to admit four), 10s. 6d; ; Raerreti Scats (Single Tickets), 59. ; Family, 15s. , Doors open at Seven, the Concert to commence at Eight o'clock precisely. . • * # * In the course "of the Evening a Poetical -Address will be delivered. ' ' ?r?rv J. Pmct, Secretary. . TO E. W. STAFF ORD^JBSQ., Superintendent pflhYProvince of Nelson. Ura— We, the nndersighea Electorrof the Town of Nelson, request that you "Will allow yourself to be nominated for* a seat in the House of Representatives.. In' soliciting yon to come forward as a candidate for an office which must withdraw^ou for a certain time from the Province, and the duties of Vhich must necessarily add considerably to your labours, we feel that we are inviting a sacrifice oh 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 onerous office. But, while we anticipate pn the part of the Province a ready acquiescence in our request, from the important 'service your presence m 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 tHertto by the suffrages of your fellow settlers. We cannot be insensible to the critical position in which this colony now stands. The institutions which have been conceded to us are now for the first time practically io be put on trial, and we view, it as of the utmost importance that at this juncture our Representatives m the General Assembly should, from principle, no less than from inclination, b0 men who are both willing and able to support as well as give'foree to our Constitution Act. Looking, also, to the perplexing financial questions which hate arisen between the Provinces and ~fhe General Government, the withdrawal of large portions of 'our l revenue, whereby the funds available for public works are most 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 upoh the abo^e, and the claims for a refunding of its revenue which this Province is entitled to make, we Ibiow 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 Alken Gieo. Ridings Joseph Winterburn B. Moore John Armstrong E. Baigent Joseph Taylor R. K. Newcome Wm. Wilkie A. C. McDonald William Crowther E. H. Enes Blackmore A. McGee D. Johnstone John Barrett Chas. Empson Adam Jackson Robt. John Creasy Thomas Rollisou •' Nathaniel Edwards Thomas Askew Thos. Gaukroger J. S. M. Jacobsen H. L. N. Clarke Joseph White Wm. Wells George Edwards R. P. Outridge G, Coates Geo. Hooper J. Newman T. C. Batchelor John L&dd W. Hough William Snow Robert Powell Henry Hargiwvves G. W. lightband William Jennings A. Aitken _ William Taylor Jas. lv Bailey A. Rankin .. - John Tregea Thomas Sullivan A. G. Jenkins B. Walmsley Ot. W. Schroder J. Ellidtt William Dane . Alfcefl Dbb'son John F. M'Glashen • W. Crowther , D. Sdanders Vaughan Jones R. Ray • B. O. Hodgson Geo. Taylor H. C. Daniell / D. Macintosh W. MoorhoUse W. R. Nicholson Thomas Datres \ '< H. Redwood . ThpmaSjßrunner \ ' M. W. Lightband Charles Harley V G. W. Lightband, jun. J t F, WiUon George Coward W. Dyson * Henry D. Jackson David Allan T. D. Nicholson HerbertJEyelyn Curtis Robert Ross James Gorrie Charles Bonnington John Carter . George Ross Robert Hunter Thomas Goodman G. Batchelor Jonathan Livick Thomas Rich W. M. Stanton Oswald Oortia Arthur T. Daniell William Skeefc Charles Lucas Edward Bolton James Chas. Phillips Jacob Frrfnks To Mr. C. Elliott, and the other Electors whb have signed the above Requisition. Gentlemen — I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your request thdt 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 consideration of the next Assembly. The task which will necessarily devolve upon your representatives, in the endeavour to efiect such ah 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 influentiaßy signed, preclude me from refusing to assist in removing, if possible, those obstacles to the progress of the province to which you allude. It remains for me to observe, that previous to nay election as Superintendent, I declared that it was not my 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, *nd from the fact that I have received a similar invitation from the eleotors of two other constituencies, that whatever might previously have been the opinion of some of the electors on this question their sentiments have undergone a change, I cannot consent to incur the imputation of having ignored a public declaration ; I have therefore determined to resign that office, in order to place myself in the same positioji in which" I was precious to making that declaration. ( , I remain, Gentlemen, with great respect, Your obedient 'e'ervtm't^ . .. E. W. StaHtobp. Nelson, 24th October, 1855.