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New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 653, 17 July 1852, Page 4

TO G. CLARKE, ESQ.

Russeli, 25th June, 1552. SIR, — We the undersigned Electors of the Dis'rict of the Bay of Islands sol c/t you to become our representative at the next Legislative Council to be held at Auckland, and m the event of yi'ur accoiding (o oui leque&t we pledge ourselves to exert every means in our power to insure your return. J. W. Williams, S. Stepheuson, E. M. Williams, H. E. Henley, J. Davis, K. Evans, John Bedggood, H. T. Hickton, J. T. Bedggood. J. Call nun, N. King, J. Miller, W. Davis, J, Kemp, jun., H. E. Hargreaves, ]{. Kemp, .7. Kemp, sen., W. P. Kemp, John Pugh, B. Woods.

Giove Cottage, Wai mate, June 28th, 1852.

Gentlemen, Your address of the 25th instant, soliciting me to become your Representative at the next Legislative Council, I duly received. I am deeply sensible of the honour intended me ; although I had no intention of again entering on public life, I do not feel at liberty to decline an invitation made by so numerous, influential, and respectable a body of gentlemen as your address contains. I shall therefore accede to your very flattering solicitations and thank you iior the promised zeal in ensuring my return. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, George Clarke. To the Gentlemen signing the requisition.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BAY OF ISLANDS ELECTORAL DISTRICT.

GENTLEMEN,— Most of you are probably awaie that I declined a Seat in the Councils nominated by the late Governors Nobson and Fiizroy, and it may naturally be considered that I am disinclined to serve in the Provincial Council about to be assembled. I therefore think it right to inform you through this channel that such is by no means the case. About ihiee weeks ago the question was put to me whether 1 would lie willing to serve if elected, and I at once replied that I would be glad to do so, but that I did not intend to canvass for votes. I was at the same time given to undei stand that a letter would be addressed to me by some influential electors to request that I would allow myself to be put in nomination. Of this letter I have heard nothing further. But I have heard that it has been pioposed to return a "son of the soil" to represent the Northern District, and the influence which can be brought to bear in favour of the youthful candidate may perhaps explain the reason why I have heaid nothing more of the proposal to nominate myself. Gentlemen, It is so much the custom to solicit votes that it may look like a want of respect towards the Electors that I should refrain from doing so. Those will not think so who agree with me that the Elective Franchise is not a privilege which may be used to gratify personal feelings, or to subserve selfish purposes, but a sacred trust whicli eveiy man is bound in conscience to discharge according to the best of his judgment for the public welfare. I am of opinion that much may be done for 'the Colony by the proposed Provincial Council, and if elected I shouid certainly not be satisfied with sitting and voting upon the measures brought forward by others. I believe few persons have had better opportunities of knowing the circumstances and wants of the Bay of Islands district than myself, and no one can be more interested in promoting its prosperity. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Yonr most obedient servant, James Busby. Victoria, 24th June, 1852. >

TO MR. JAMES C. HILL.

SIR, — We, the undersigned Electors of the Northern Division of the Province of New Ulster, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated for a seat in the forth coming Provincial Council, feeling that your interests as a landed proprietor lesident amongst us are identified with our own, and having confidence, that if elected you will use your best exertions for the benefit of this colony and people. Thos. Cleghorn, George L. Simpson, J. O'Keefe, John Brigham, Joseph Senior, Henry Hayr, Walter Veil, Henry Laurence, Donald McNaughton, William Caldicutt 4 Thos. Osborne, John By croft.

Hillsboro', Bth July, 1852. Gentlemen, — Please to accept by best thanks for the gratifying expression of public confidence contained in the above requisition, and permit me to say, that a strict sense of public duty, (not ambition) directs me to cheerfully accept your invitation, and to announce myself a Candidate for the suffrages of my bi other electors to lepiesent them in the foithcoming Council for ftc-v Ulster. You do me justice in stating that my interests are identified with yours, for with the prosperity of this Colony and your best interests mine, and that of a lar^e family, must stand or fall. I tiust from many yeais experience in public affairs in my name land, and a ten yeais residence amongst you in New Zealand, closely observing the many wants and difficulties stopping the prosperity of the country, I shall, if elected to the highly honourable position of one of your representatives, piove myself worthy of the confidence placed, by a fearless, conscientious, and independent discharge of the important trust reposed in me, for the promotion of the true honour and prosperity of the country, and the best interests of all classes of her people — my motto being, " Equal Rights and Privileges for all British Subjects, Retrenchment, and Reform." I have the honour to be Gentlemen, Your faithful servant, Jambs C. Hill. To the Gentlemen of the Requisition, and the Electors of the Division in geneiul.