TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BAY OF ISLANDS.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 756, 13 July 1853, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BAY OF ISLANDS.

(By favour of the New-Zealander.) Fellow Electors. —Having received a letter from a friend of mine at the Bay of Islands, who knows me to he the owner of land and other property in that district, wishing me to express my opinion about a certain gentleman that has offered himself as a Candidate for the Bay district; I do not wish to make any remark on the person mentioned in my friend’s letter for I know;nothing|ahout him, hut that is the reason why I should he sorry to recommend one who is quite a stranger to me. If my friends at the Bay of Islands wish to have my advice, 1 say—keep all strangers at a respectful distance, choose proper persons to represent the Bay, which will stu Ay your interests, and not men who merely rent without using a piece of ground to qualify them for the Council. There is no place in New Zealand of so few inhabitants as the Bay that has so many proper persons to fill the office from among themselves. You are now called on to place a stranger where you ought to he yourselves. The Bay of Islands has been misrepresented long enough by those having no interest in it, and by a certain public Press in the country. If I give you bad advice I wrong myself and my family ; the advice I give is well considered, and I may have had a better opportunity at Auckland than you have bad at the Bay, for forming correct opinions on this matter. If the gentleman alluded to wishes to become a Candidate for any part of New' Zealand, -why not try wdiere bo is better known ? I suppose he is like many more who will have little chance to be returned; but, if you were all of my mind you would return him and that back to bis old post at the South. You all know my interest is your own ; so once more take my advice, and beware of interlopers. Although a requisition, if I am rightly informed, has already been sent to the gentleman I refer to, it must have been got up by a few, without the bulk of the inhabitants having a knowledge of the position the candidate holds in the country, and under these circumstances I call upon the requisitionists themselves, to reconsider the matter before they stultify themselves. If th.3 candidateshouldeverappearonthsliustings,letsonm elector ask him just three questions, as follows: —Do you possess any landed property in the Bay of Islands district ? Do you possess any real or personal property in New r Zealand ? Or, do you intend to become a bona fide settler in the Northern Province, or in any other Province of New Zealand? If the candidate cannot answer thesi questions to your satisfaction, then, I say, you are bound by all you owe to yourselves, your families, and your country, to reject him, even although you may have been beguiled by interested parties into signing his requisition. 1 have the honor to remain, Gentlemen, Y T our old fellow' settler and well-wisher, Benjn. E. Turner. Epsom Hoad, near Auckland, July 10, 1853. To the Editor of the New-Zealander. Sir, — As Mr. Brown’s party has been at a great deal of trouble to make people believe that the Pensioners and soldiers of the 58th. who voted for Colonel Wjnyard did so because they did not dare do otherwise ; 1 bog to make you acquainted with a circumstance which shows how Mr. Brown’s friends manifest their personal hostility to a poor old soldier, simply because he acted according to the dictates of his own conscience, and voted against Mr. Brown at the late election. On Sunday afternoon as myself and four other pensioners w T ere retuniing from Ilowick where we had been attending Parade, we were passing through a paddock in the occupation of Mr. Farmer, thus saving about a mile and a half; Mr. Farmer, who was on horseback, singled me out and reminded me that I had opposed and ebaikinged Mr. Brown on the hustings, and that I hj ®S ro t' ore * or l e ’l C( i ie privilege 1 had hitherto enJSyTO of passing through his grounds, and that iu future I could not pass that way ! It would ill become me sir, to make any observations upon such conduct towards a poor but independent elector ; I leave it to your readers. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Joseph Robinson. Auckland, July 12^^Di53. To the Editor atThe New-Zealander. Sir, —I have been directed by the Committee which have been acting to secure Colonel Wynyard’s Election, to request that you will have the goodness to insert the enclosed resolution in the columns of your journal. Yours, &c., T. S. Forsaith.

Resolved.—That with reference to the re.iterated attacks made by the partizans of Mr. Brown, on the Clergymen of the different denominations who voted fcfor Colonel Wynyard, the Committee, before finally feel it to be incumbent upon them, as an act of simple justice, to contradict, in the most unequivocal manner, so far as their knowledge extends, the assertion that those Ministers, or any of them, acted as canvassers, or employed any other influence beyond that necessarily connected with the weight of their names. W. PowniTCii, W. S. Grahame, John Salmon, J. A. Gilfillan, James Macky, James Burtt, A. W. Hansard, Archd. Clark, Robert Scott, Joseph Crispe, J. Williamson, Tuesday Evening, July 12, 1853.