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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION. GENTLEMEN, — Having submitted your request to the Committee who weie unp Ka! nig my election for the City, I have, by heir advice, decided upon accepting the invitation with which you have honoured me. In doing so, I ha\e been partly influenced by the cunsideration that most of my tune in New Zealand has been spent in the Not them Division, and that 1 have still laige interests at stake in that disttict, atid also by the fact that many of the gentlemen signing the City tequisition, aie equally interested with you in my lelum, as electors of your Division. Gentlemen, in offering myself as a candidate to represent you in the forthcoming Piovincial Council, I can only lepeat what I have alieady said — that if elected I shall go into the Council with but one object — to repay your confidence by doing my duty independently and conscientiously. I disclaim all party feelings and prejudices, and will to the best of my ability, piomote the inteiests of the Piovince generally, by suppoiting eveiy measure calculated to advance the commeicial. agricultuial, social, and moral welfare of the community. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Thomas S. Forsaith. Queen -street. July Bth, 1852.

TO MR. WILLIAM BUCKLAND. SIR, — We the undersigned, feeling every confidence in your general principles, beg leave to lequest that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination for a Seat in the next Legislative Assemb]y> to represent the Disttict of the Southern Division, and we pledge ourselves to use our utmost ability to secure your return. James Lockwood, John Styak, H . W. Munro, John Hall, John Embling, John Kerr. John Scott, James Gollan, Chailes J. Taylor, Thomas Wyllie, Edmund Foley, Wm. Gieen. John Fanburn, TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION. Gentlemen, In compliance with the above requisition, I hereby offer myself, as a Candidate for your suffrages at the ensuing election of Members for the Provincial Council of New Ulster. I remain, Gentlemen, Yours obediently, W. JBuckland. July 15, 1852.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] To the Eddittcr iv the Ny Zelandher. SUR, — Musha the sarra take yer parlimint an' yer elexshins its me hart's a'niost broke wid thiin, an' that omadhawn iv a man iv mine instid iv airnin' a bit iv bred fur us is meandherin about ihe cnniliry, what he calls a canvassin for his lioner 'Mr Di<™;ei!um,.an' its home he cums at nite scrcechia' dhrunk wid libbci ty an' aqual riles, an' he bates misilf an' the childher till we're blak an' blew. Aflher he -vvint to bed last nite an' wos snorin' an his back like a baste, I tuk howld iv his smal-clolhes, savin' yer prisence, to thry ay | ther was any iv his pinshun lift he resaved last week, but my dear, the sorra ha'porth was in his poket but the md iv a fig iv baccy, 2 votin' papers sined wid his name the villin, fur Mr Diggenum an 1 Mr Masin, an' the letther I sind enclowsed. I hope, Sur, yell put it in the papers, an' tell his lioner Mr Diggenum not to giv all to the mm but renumber the poor wives an' childher that's dhry an' liungcry at home. Yours to command, Bridget Mulcaiiy. Ilooneunger, Awgus 11. To Mr. Aldherman Willim Masin, Tarnmeki Esquier. llonur'd Sur, — Afore I voat fur yer eleckshin till the new parlimint I igspect yer ansers till a fu pellitticle catergoris, as the Sutherin Crass calls em, an I hope no offinse. Its myself nivir seen the froth iv yer pot nor the bade an yer naggin, an' how can I tell whats 33 r cr principples — not all as one as Mr Dignum, long life to him, its himself keeps the good dhrop o' likker an' the dacent house, bad luck to the betther in the parish any how, an" a mighty plesint gintleman he is an' no ways proud for all he's an aldherman — wid a butifull brogue, and larnin enuff for a priest : an' well he knows whats good fur a poor pinshinur an' he sez he'll stik up fur our rites an' he'll get us all we want — ay he is a publiccan, Avhy not — didn't we sind a publiccan into the Corparashun an' may be he didn't bother the thievin guvverment — an isntlt nathral like to hay a publiccan to ripresint the pinshinurs — an' may be the Sutherin Crass isn't stikkin to him like wax — claw me claw thee, as Sawney sez — an' its Pat that sthrained his pvincipple an intherest fur the Crass amongst the boys in the town, more power to em — but I'm forgettin the cathergorys. Ist. Whats yer idaya iv the electiv franchis, an' isn't Garryowen a complather chune than Rule Britannier ? 2. Will ye voat for Cathalick emancipasliun an' the repalc iv the Union ? 3. Will ye biing out a bill to let the pinshonurs elect their own officers an secure the libberty ay the corpse ? 4. Ivery indivigle, bein' more or less useful, has a undescribible rite to be lord mare or member iv Council — how wudye dale wid the wimmen in this case, the colleens, my blessins on thim, isn't widout their use now and thin ? 5 Is it yer oppinion that the md iv all pelliticle associashuns is thepermoshun iv private — I mane public inthcre&ts ? G. Don't ye think that the peeple, bein' ay coorse the soorce iv all power, nivir fails to elict the best iv znin as aldhermin, cowncillurs, an' leggishithers — an' as law is only the igsprisshun iv the poplar will, ivery man if convaynient might act as Judge, Sheriff, lleggisthrar, barristher, sullicither, ciier bailiff (bad hick to thim) an' jailer, widout any other quallificashun than vartuc ? 7. Will ye give us chape land and borry a thrifle in money, say £100,000, for the Corporashun, long , life to it ? 0. Two years bein' a long time to thrust a man,*J will ye vote for a new clicsinin at the md iv iveif quarthur? i 0 Its a cry in' nhame that in New Ulsther, not ■ill as one ns in Quid Ulsther, there's not a dacent dl.rop of whiskey to be had for luvor money, will \o biiii» onl fl bill to jjcrmit illicit dibtillashun — an' make ivery r > 1 ' 1 <■■ h" dd half-a-piut ? Ay yov ivnsei!, „. ih^ . quavys is sattisfactliory I'll oh ye my voat an intherest, ay they're not, then— Pat you are my darlint I Into Parlimint you'll co, Sez the shan van vogh. Our foes jou will Amaze, An' all r.uropp you will plnze, An' Ould Ireland bo !it aize, Sez the shan van vogh, (Signed) Feargus Mulcahy, X Corpolar Iloyal Horse Moreens. Hooneunga, August 10.

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New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 661, 14 August 1852, Page 2

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Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 661, 14 August 1852, Page 2

Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 661, 14 August 1852, Page 2

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