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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 750, 22 June 1853, Page 2

that occasion, ihey arc now persuaded that if the appearance ol Candidates is expedient in elections fur the Council, it Mas more in accordance with the dignity of the office of civil head of the Province that the Superintendent should be chosen without personal appeals to the Electors, and without putting it in the power of any with whom his duties may bring him in contact afterwards, to say that he was under an obligation to them because/// his own solicitation they had supported him by their votes. Colonel Wyuyard was absent —not because he was averse in, or had any reason to shrink from meeting a body of Electors whose interests and welfare he was sensible he had done his utmost to promote, but because lie was not willing to exercise even that amount of interference with the freedom of the election which his attendance on the hustings might be supposed to exert on sonic of the electors. It is to be regretted that Mr. Brown did not lake the same view of the position, and that he did not abstain from appearing on the hustings to extol himself, and to appeal, in supplicatory terms , for the suffrages of the electors, and avoid establishing a precedent so inconsistent with the dignity of the office to which he aspired. Colonel Wynyard had written a Idler which was intended to be read on the hustings, and at the proper lime—after Mr. Brown had spoken.—Captain Salmon came forward to read it. The yelling by Mr. Brown’s friends, was instantly vociferously renewed. Captain Salmon good hnmorediy persevered for a while, and the Idler would have been read, although it might have been only in dumb show, but that Mr. Brown instantly protested against its tunny read , — and Mr. Kennedy, (of the Union Rank A vehemently said tome foeturnimr Officer—“lt must m>t he read I” )\ hereupon, the Sleturuing Officer decided that it should not be read —a decision which, however the Committee mav regret it—they of coarse immediately submitted to. The following is the letter which Capt. Salmon was not permitted to read : Auckland, 20th J uuo, 1853. Gentlemen, At the urgent and repeated solicitations of a large and influential body of the Electors of the Province of Auckland, I consented to discharge the duties of Superintendent, if elected to that office. On the day of nomination you will be at liberty to assure the Electors that although 1 have no pledges to give, and no promises to make, yet that whatever of freedom from party feeling—whatever of impartiality, and whatever of zeal for the interests of the Province, may have guided my conduct, while administering its affairs as j Lieutenant-Governor, will be found to influence mo in discharging the duties or Superintendent, it it should be the ideasure of the Colonists to elect me to the office. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant,. U. 11. Vv \NSA it D. To the Proposer and Seconder on the day ol Nomination. We leave this brief narration —to the correctness of which wc defy any truthful contradiction—to be considered by the Electors | at their leisure. Wc confess that the conduct of a few—and wc arc happy to add of hut a few— of the Electors filled opr minds with shame and regret, because it was calculated to sully the reputation which IhcconStilucney of this Province had so honourably and creditably acquired by the propriety of their behaviour on the occasion of the late elections. This handful of unreasonable and imrefiecl'mg men must have forgotten licit; they were bringing disgrace upon the entire constituency, and giving an opportunity to the enemies of a popular franchise to point to this day’s proceedings as an evidence that wo arc not yet fitted' for the privileges that have been so liberally conferred upon ns. ft is gratifying however to remember that the polling day will afford every lover of good order and fair play throughout the Province, an opportunity of shewing by their voles that they disapprove of such conduct. Already, within the few hours that have elapsed since the scene wc have depicted, several Electors, who before weremndecided, and had come into Town to hear the argumenlsoii both sides, and form their determination accordingly, have voluntarily come forward to declare that they must now deride against Mr. Brown, being satisfied that it is their duty to oppose a man who, with his party, sought to carry their point—not by die force of reason, and the superor cogency of their arguments, but by stopping the months of those who believed and wished to show that Mr. Brown was not the most suitable man for the office to which he aspired. (Signed on behalf of Col. Wynyard’s Committee) W. POWDITGH, Chairman. Monday Evening, June 20. ■'[TENDERS arc requested by the luder--1 sip-nod for the construction of six or eight WOODEN COTTAGES in frame. "plans and fm ther particulars may be obtained on application to John Woodiiouse. Queen-street, June 17, 1853. 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