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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 758, 20 July 1853, Page 4

T0 J. A. GILFILLAN, ESQ. £ jrWe, Uie Undersigned Electors of the Suburbs of Auckland, feeling the importance of having our interests represented in onr Provincial Council, by men of independent principles, and moderate views, request that you will permit yourself to be nominated as one of the C indidates for our Alexander Whisker 11. Matson T. Johnson T. Waters D. Addis John Fitt John Howlin. Auckland, sth July, 1853. Gentlemen,— For the unmerited and unexpected honor you have done me, in in—filing me to be put in Nomination, as one of the Representatives for the Suburbs of Auckland, in the Provincial Council, I beg to offer you my grateful acknowledgements. It would ill become me here to make any formal profession of the principles, which, in the event of my being elected, may guide my public conduct. Thus much however I mav be allowed to saythat whateverrneasures may lend to the advancement of this Province, to the development of its resources, and tbe well being of its inhabitants, shall have my constant and cordial support. 1 have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful and obedient servant J. A. Gilfillan To John Salmon, Esq., and the other Gentlemen signing the Requisition. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PENSIONER SETTLEMENTS. John Salmon S. Kempthorne D. Pollen W. Hughes John Horn 11. Niccol Andrew Rooney Edward Bull July, 4lh 1853. FELLOW ELECTORS,—Being made aware that my name has been honourably mentioned at the Meetings lately held bv many of you, to name persons in whom you can confide to represent your interests in the forthcoming Councils, and which expressions areuow supported by a Requisition which has been handed to me, I beg leave thus publicly to acquaint you, that I respond to your request, with sincere and heartfelt thanks. From the many occasions on which you have so honoured my name, no proper course has been left to rnc but that of carefully discharging the duties in whatever station your suffrages may place me. And I feel it right to assure you, that being freed from any local interests of my own. while it will be my duly to promote the general welfare of the Province, the peculiar interests of yourselves and each of your Villages, will obtain my most especial attention. I have the honour to be. Fellow Elcclors, Your faithful servant, Wll. POWDITCII. July do, 1853. TO MR. JOHN WILLIAMSON. QIR,—We, the Undersigned Electors of O the Pensioners Settlements, being convinced of the deep importance to ourselves, and, indeed, the whole community, that we should be represented in the Provincial Council by men having, besides a practical knowledge of the wants of the Colony generally, a thorough acquaintance with our own position and requirements, and believing that you possess these requisites in addition to the necessary intelligence and independence to qualify you for the post, request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination as one of the candidates for the Pensioner Settlements, in which case we tender you all the support in our power.—We are, sir, etc., H. W. Mahon, M.D. John Murdoch James Ninnis Edward Sialldad Phillip Owens John McGhee John Arnold Win. Turner John Butler John Fallon Henry Briefly July ii, i Su3. John Douglas M. Keiley John Bales John Beswick Geo. Bartlett P. J. Hogan M. Madigan Wm. Buiten J. Murphy Patrick King Robert Turner. Fellow Colonists,—l thank you for the terms in which you have been pleased to convey your request to me to allow myself to be put in nomination as a Candidate for one of the four seals to which the representatives of your settlements will be entitled in the first Council of tbe Province of Auckland. I am fully alive to the onerous nature of the duties which will belong to a seat in that Council, if faithfully discharged, and in complying with your wish I feel that, should 1 be elected, however little to your satisfaction or my own those duties might be fulfilled by me, they should be undertaken with a firm delerrnination on. my part to subordinate all private interests to my public duties, and to spare no effort in aiding my colleagues to obtain whatever measures might be considered most conducive to the welfare of the Province; keeping in view at the same lime whatever would tend to the interests of your own communities in particular. I have the honor to be. Fellow Colonists, Your obedient servant, J. Williamson. July 14, 1853. A a Meeting of the Committee of the Operative and Working Classes of Auckland, held ai the “While Hart Hotel” this evening, it was unanimously resolved that one Candidate only he proposed by them to represent them in Hie Provincial Council, and that Mr. James Derrom be. the said Candidate. They therefore call on the working classes, and all friendly to their cause to give him their utmost support. Alexander Black, Chairman. William Burns John Charles Jearard Charles Lowson Andrew Hodge Archibald McPherson Joseph Syms Thomas Craig George Boyd James McLend Alexander Wright William Bacon Auckland, July 12th, 1853.