TO MR. PATRICK DIGNAN, AUCKLAND.
OIR,— We, the undersigned, having the O fullest confidence in the integrity of your principles, and convinced of the deep interest you have in the prosperity of the Colony, request you will allow yourself to be put in nomination lo represent the Pensioner Settlements in the forthcoming Provincial Council of New Ulster, and in the event of your acceding to this request we pledge ourselves to exert all our influence lo secure your return. We are, Sir, Your most obedient servants, J[. W. Mahon, M.D., Samuel Furley, Edwd. 11. E. Black- Edmund Foley, more, John Hogan, James Dilworth, James Cleary, Charles Durbridge, T. Henry, Joseph Brennan, Sergt. J. McAnulty, Sergt. Beer, Hugh Coolahan, Sergt. Kelly, Patrick Quintan, Patrick Donovan, David Lundon, Sergt. Carsin, Sergt. Metligan, John J. Williams, Sergt. Ralph. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PENSIONER SETTLEMENTS. Gentlemen, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the above Requistion, and in compliance with your request I offer myself as a Candidate for your suffrages, at the ensuing Election for the ProAincial Council of New Ulster; should I be returned I can only assure you that the confidence you express in my integrity of principles shall never be misplaced. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, ' Patrick Dignan. Auckland, 25rd July, 1852:
TO J. LCGAN 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 amII allow yourself to be nominated as a Candidate for the Suburbs of Auckland. John Gray, Augs. B. Abraham, Waller Brodie, Benj. E. Turner, John Salmon, T. H. Baitley, J. A. Gilfillan, James Robeitson, J. Woadhouse, H. Niccol, Wm. Connell, William Bruce, Thomas Johnson, Henry Hardiugton, William Boyd, Edwaid Bull, Andrew llooney, William Hay, John Brigham, Richard Clark, Geoige Codlin, Thomas Kerr, Thomas Finlay, James Anderson, Edward Parker, Henry Clark, Thos. Runciman, Caleb Robinson, Joshua Robinson, John Hill, Edward Lefais, David Geo Anderson, Thomas Wateis, George Pollard, James Hills, Thos. Steel, John Hoi v, Edward Hynes. George Dennett.
To the Gentlemen signing the foregoing Requisition, mid other Electors of the Suburban District of Auckland, Gentlemen, — Whatever diaclination I may have previously entertained againbt entering the arena of | Colonial Politics, the flattering requisition you have done me the honour to address to me, and the peculiar 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. As 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 interests 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.
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 Piovincial 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, Jatnes Bunt, John Finlay, Edwin Davy, Daniel Lynch. Auckland, sth July, 1852.
Auckland, sth July, 1852.
Gentlemen, I thank you for the confidence you have shewn in me by the requisition with which I ha\e just leen favoured, and I do not hesitate to state that I shall be happy to sit in the Piovincial Council as a Member for the City of Auckland, if the Electors think me deserving of this honour. I lemain, Gentlemen, Your obedient seivant, J. Salmon. To all the Gentlemen who signed the requisition.
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New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 658, 4 August 1852, Page 4
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