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New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 575, 18 October 1851, Page 2

TO MR. ARCHIBALD CLARK.

S\r i We the Undetsigued duly qualified Burgesses of the Middle Ward, believing •you to be an independent and conscientious Man ; and as such a fit and proper Peison to represent this Ward in the municipal Council, request you will allow yourself to be put in nomination for the same. We are, Sir, Your obedient servants, David Nathan, Wellesley Hughes, William Gorrie, Henry Keesing, Jnn., Samuel Brown, Asher Asher, Henry Hardington, John Macfarlane, James T. Boylan, Koberl Howie, W. Henderson, Henry Hadlow, Richard J. Hunt, James Henderson, 0. H. Moffitt, Kdward VVardell, Thomas Wallis, Henry Somerville, Stephen E. Hughes, Richard Cameron, B. Moses, William Dennett, John Makepeace, W. A. Maiben, Abraham Keesing, Charles Hopkins, Ralph Keesing, William Smith, Bryant Vercoe, Duncan Hepburn, John Rout, Alexander Hepburn, Walter Robertson, George Stephenson, Robeit Thompson, B. Waul, John Raw son, George Bailey, Andrew Hodge, Robert Pollock.

TO THE BURGF^SES OF THE MIDDLE WARD,

GENTLEMEN,- A paper has been put into my hand signed by foity of your number, requesting that I should allow myself to be nominated one of the Candidates for the representation of the Middle Ward. It would be an affectation of humility not to say that I feel gratified by this mark of your confidence. I accede to the wishes of the Reqnisitionists on the grounds stated as forrams; in their opinion proper qualifications for oitice, viz., independency and conscientiousness. Every question coming before the Councils I should consider on its own merits, irrespectively of the quarter whence it might ongiaate, and having arrived at a conclusion would act in accordance therewith. I would undertake the office with great misgivings, as to having talents and experience to please even myself, but if you should think me qualified I shall enter upon its duties with a sincere desiie to advance your interests which aie identical with my own 1 am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, Arciliiuld Clark. Auckland, October 17th, 1851.

MIDDLE WARD.

TO MR. JOHN WILLIAMSON".

SII^ — TVc, the Undersigned Burgesses of the Middle Ward, having full confidence in your ability and integrity, and knowing that from a long residence in the colony, you have a general knowledge of its wants, request that you -will permit yourself to be nominated a Candidate for the representation of the above Ward at the forthcoming Election; and should you accede to our request, we pledge ourselves to render every assistance in order to secure your return. We are, Sir, yours obediently, J. D. C. Ireland, I Charles Joslin, Thomas Jones, Robert Gibson, Joseph England, M. Ellis, E. OBrien, Thomas Keven, Eichard Matthews, R. McDowell, Henry D. Jackson, Thomas James Jaggar, C. R. Leighton, George Hunter, A. T. Thomson, Sur- J. C. McDowell, geon, 58th Regt., Wm. Tatter sail, J. H. Watt, Wm. Rose, D. G. Byland, W. C. Wilson. Auckland, Oct. 17, 1851, GENTLEMEN,— In reply to your requisition that I should allow myself to be put in nomination to represent the Middle Ward in the Common Council about to be formed in this Borough, allow me to offer you my sincere thanks for the terms in which you have been pleased to convey your wish. I cannot but feel gratified that a number of my fellow-citizens, several of whom have been among the early pioneers of this settlement, and who have earned for themselves the respect of their fellow-townsmen by an honourable course of industrious effort, should think of me as one worthy of their confidence in so responsible an office. I deem it my duty, however, before accepting any pledge from you on the subject, to state to you, as brieily as I can, the views that I hold respecting the Charter and the manner in which I think it should be received and carried into effect by the inhabitants. In the first place, I believe that whatever amount of local poAver is transferred by the Charter from the Executive Government of the Province to the Corporation will be more efliciently and less expensively exercised by the Corporation than it has been by the Government. Therefore, the larger the amount of local control the inhabitants can have placed in their own hands, the better will the interests of every locality within the Borough be attended to. The authorities in whose hands are placed the general government and administration of the affaiis of an extensive Country or Province, seldom give more than secondary attention or thought to the ■wants of individual districts or localities, and while the grievances of every settlement is •well known and keenly felt by the settlers therein, they feel astonishment that the Government should manifest so little concern about them. But so it is, and so it has ever been here, even at the seat of Government. And hence the desire that we have felt for the day to come that would give us the management of our own local affairs. In illustration of the apathy with which the Executive have looked upon our demands for their interference in our behalf, I might point to the frequent presentments made to the Chief Justice by Grand Juries respecting dangerous and unwholesome nuisances in the town. His Honor could only move in such cases by forwarding the representations of the Grand Jury to the proper authorities, but after that the public heard nothing further of them. As regards the outlay of money by the Government on public improvements, there can be no question but that if the amounts that have been thus expended had been placed Tinder the management of lo al boards chosen from any of the localities in which such improvements were to be made, much more than has been done would have been accomplished by the same expenditure. I therefore think that, for these reason ■; alone, to which many others might be added, the instalment of local management that has been placed in our hands should be received and turned to the best account. Of course the duties that will be performed by ilie Corporation will curtail the demands on the revenue for the support of establishments hitherto maintained in the Borough, and the result of the abolition of expensive departments must lead to a reduction of the provincial taxation, so that in a ehort time the inhabitants will not be required, nor will they suft'er themsch es to be taxed for the