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

TO WILLIAM CONNELL, ESQ. SIR, —We the Undersigned Electors of the Suburbs >of Auckland, feeling the importance of having our interests represented in our Provincial Council, by men of independent principles and moderate views, request that you will permit yourself to be nominated as one of the Candidates for our District. Your long residence amongst us, your perfect acquaintance with our wants, and your known freedom from political prejudices, assure us of the value of your services. John Salmon S. Kemplhorne John Howlin W. Hughes John Kelly John Horn Andrew Rooney Edward Bull Alexander Whisker H. Matson T. Johnson I). Pollen T. Waters Daniel Addis John Fill. July 4lh, 1853. Auckland, slh July, 1853. Gentlemen,— l am much honoured by the desire expressed in your Requisition, that I should come forward as a Candidate to represent the Suburbs of Auckland in the Provincial Council. Influenced by an earnest desire to promote the interests of the Province, of which I have been so many years an inhabitant, I yield to jour judgment as to my fitness for the responsible duties you are willing to devolve upon me, and 1 beg to assure you and your brother electors that I shall, if honoured by their suffrages, render the best services that my brief leisure and limited ability will permit in forwarding such measures as are calculated to secure the permanent welfare of this community. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant,’’ William Connell, To John Salmon, Esq., and the other Subscribers to the Requisition. TO JOHN WATSON BAIN, ESQ. SIR,— We, the Undersigned Electors of the Suburbs of Auckland, feeling the importance of having our interests represented in our Provincial Council by men of independent principles and moderate views, request that you wil nominated as one of District. John Salmon S. Kemplhorne D. Pollen W. Hughes John Horn] Andrew Rooney Edward Bull John Howlin July, 4th 1833. I permit yourself to be the Candidates for our Alexander Whisker 11. Matson T. Johnson 11. Niccol T. Waters Daniel Addis John Fill. Auckland, sth July, 1853. Gentlemen,— l have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your requisition, and it affords me much pleasure to comply ,villi your wishes to allow myself to be nominated as a Candidate for the Representation of the Suburban District in the Auckland Provincial Council. I am induced the more readily to assent to your request from the favourable opinion you entertain of the services I am likely to render, and while I thank you for the confidence you place in me I beg to assure you that if the honour of being returned one of your Representatives be conferred upon me you may rely upon my conscientiously and faithfully discharging to the best of my ability, the various important duties which would devolve upon me. Our interests and desires for the advancement and prosperity of our adopted Country are I believe identical, and to the furtherance of these in every way my best endeavours shall at all times be directed 1 have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, John Watson Bain. To the Gentlemen signing the ) Requisition. ) TO JAMES O’NEILL, ESQ. 7E, the undersigned, being duly sensible of the independence and industry which have hitherto characterised your public career, and having full confidence in your desire to promote the welfare of the Colony, beg respectfully that you will allow yourself to be pul in nomination as a member for the Provincial Council for the City Auckland. We are, Sir, Your obedient servants, of George Yaile William Gorrie Andrew Hodge James George Joseph Low Samuel Brown George McYay Thos. Henderson John Kcllv George M‘Kinley Phillip Callan Patrick Harkin John Mclwin Stephen E. Hughes Aitehinson Oliver _j David Sheehan George E. Yaile John MaeDongall A. Black John Finlay Alex. Marshall John McKcrran J. Logan Campbell John Porter Joseph Wright Richard Burras Win. Harkin Patrick Heath Duncan Campbell Thos. Leddra Wallis J. R. Yaile Samuel Yaile John Campbell. Fellow Citizens,— lt was not my intention to have occupied the position of a Candidate at this lime, but when invited by so much of the wealth and respectability of the City, I could not consistently decline ; indeed, I believe that my coming forward on this occasion will be in accordance with the wishes of a great majority of the Electors, I therefore feel very great pleasure in complying with your request, and, in announcing through you to the constituency, that I offer myself as a Candidate for their suffrages.—l thank you sincerely for the confidence you place in me, and should I be returned, you will find me a true supporter of every measure which may have a tendency to further the interests of this City and Province. I remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, J. O’Nejll. To the Gentlemen who signed the Requisition.