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New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 652, 14 July 1852, Page 2

TO JOHN SALMON, ESQ.

SIR, — We the Undersigned, feeling convinced, that from your long experience in the Colony, and from your well known interests in the prosperity of New Zealand, you are well qualified to represent our interests, take the liberty respectfully to request that you will allow yourself to be placed in nomination as a Candidate for the City of Auckland, in the Provincial Council of New Ulster. Alexander Kennedy, J. A. Gilfillan, John Macfarlane, Robert Gilfillan, Walter Combes, J. Logan Campbell, John Watson Bain, James Thos Boylan, Thomas Lewis, Richard Ridings, L. MacLachlan, James Bunt, John Finlay, Edwin Davy, Daniel Lynch. Auckland, sth July, 1852.

Auckland, sth July, 1552.

Gentlemen, I thank you for the confidence you have shewn in me by the requisition with which I have just been favoured, and I do not hesitate lo state that I shall be happy to sit in the Provincial Council as a Member for the City of -Auckland, if the Electors think me deserving -of this honour. •I remain, Gentlemen, :»Your obedient servant, J. Salmon. To all the Gentlemen who signed the requisition.

To the Electors of the City of Auckland.

/~^ ENTLEMEN.— In compliance with a revJT quisition which has been presented to me, I beg to offer myself as one of the Representatives for the City of Auckland, in the Provincial Council of New UlsterI have been long amongst you, and my interests are altogether dependent on the prosperity of this Province. lam extensively engaged, peihaps more so than any other member of the community, in the whaling and coasting trade ; hoth of which are of so much importance to the City, that I trust you will consider them fairly entitled to some share in its Representation. If you do me the honour of electing me, every interest of the Province shall receive a fair consideration at my hands, and no exertion shall be wanting on my part to develope the resources of a country, which I believe to possess all the elements of prosperity. _ I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, J. Salmon. Auckland, sth July, 1852.

TO J. LOGAN CAMPBELL, ESQ.

Auckland, July 6, 1852, SIR,— Convinced that you are eminently qualified to occupy a seat in the Provincial Council of New Ulster, from your long experience in the colony, known moderation, and, just views -on the various complicated and important questions which must come under immediate consideration, — we, the undersigned, respectfully request that you will-allow yourself to be nominated as a Candidate for the Suburbs of Auckland. John Gray, Augs. B. Abraham, Walter Brodie, Benj. E. Turner, John Salmon, T. H. Bartley, J. A. Gilfillan, James Robertson, J. Woodhouse, H. Niccol, Wm. Connell, William Bruce, Thomas Johnson, Henry Hardington, William Boyd, Edward Bull, Andrew Rooney, William Hay, John Brigham, Richard Clark, Geoige Codltn, Thomas Kerr, Thomas Finlay, James Anderson, Edward Parker, Henry Clark, Thos. Runciman, Caleb Robinson, Joshua Robinson, John Hill, Edward Lewis, David Geo Anderson, Thomas Waters, George Pollard, James Hills, Thos. Steel, John Horn, Edward Hynes. George Dennett.

To the Gentlemen signing the foregoing Requisition^ and other Electors of the Suburban District of Auckland. Gentlemen, — Whatever disclinafion I may have previously entertained against entering the arena of Colonial Politics, the flattering requisition you have done me the honour to address to me, and thejpeculiar juncture of Colonial Affairs, induce me, at once, to assent to your wishes, and to announce myself as a Candidate for the representation of the Suburbs of Auckland in the forthcoming Provincial Couucil of New Ulster. . At one of the early Pioneers drawn towards New Zealand in its earliest period of British settlement, I have necessarily acquired an intimate personal knowledge of its past history, and may therefore be presumed to be competent/ to form a tolerably correct estimate of its present wants and future requirements. Whatever measures may be brought before the Council, calculated to advance the prosperity of the colony, shall, in the event of my election, command my careful and unbiassed consideration ; forwhatever course I may deem it my duty to pursue, you may feel assured that your inteiests shall be as sedulously and conscientiously guarded as my own — indeed they are identical. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, J. Logan (Campbell.

July 8, 1852.

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. ITHHE COMMITTEE for the return of JL John Salmon, Esq., for the City of Auckland, will meet at the Crown and Anchor Inn, daily, at 12 and 4 o'clock — John Woodhouse, James Burtt, D. Lynch, L. McLachlan, John McFarlane, Richard Ridings, J. McDoupali, J. A, Gilfillan. July Bth, 1852.