TO THE ELECTORS FOR THE CITY OF AUCKLAND. pi ENTLEMEN,—Suffer mc to express my V3T satisfaction and thanks for the honor yon have conferred by electing mc one of your representatives in the Provincial Council. Be assured that whatever may appear conducive to the welfare of the Province, shall receive my earnest attention. Although I did not personally canvass, my acknowledgments arc, nevertheless, duo to those gentlemen who exerted themselves on my behalf. I trust they will feel that their kindness is not unappreciated. They have my warm thanks. I have the honor to remain, Gentlemen, Yours respectfully, Tiios 11. Bartley. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE NORTHERN DIVISION. TIROTOER ELECTORS,—Since last I adJL> dressed you, our good and gracious Queen has conferred upon us our new Constitution. It now behoves us to work the Ship with prudence and caution, and steer her safe through the rocks and shoals that surround us. When 1 then addressed you, I said 1 had no doubt that a strong but respectful remonstrance, to ihc Queen and Home Government, in loyal and affectionate terms, from the Provincial Councils, in favour of cheap land, would meet with attention and respect; in this I have been anticipated, and Sir George Grey has had the power conferred upon him of forming new Land Regulations for disposing ■of the Waste Lands of the Crown, and he lias done so, in a liberal spirit; but I want more done to protect the small capitalist, and the industrious nan, and bring cheaper land within every man's means; and along with it I want good roads East, West, North, and South. California may boast of heir treasures; Australia may boast of her gold fields ; long may she enjoy them. We will share her gold; we have our noble Manukau and other forests, the splendid plains and coal mines of Waikalo; our other mineral districts rich in abundance, and, above all, we can boast of our rich and abundant harvests, our splendid climate, our herds of cattle at the Ray of Islands, Waimate, and Hokianga. I \vai\l them all connected with Auckland by good land and water communication.' There have been large land sales. Money is in the Treasury —more will come in. lam for beginning at the right end of each line, and carry them on from Auckland, that every man may have easy access to and from market at the port of shipment. No undue or unfair preference to any district; let us only open the country with roads and public works; bring plenty of cheap land into market; Emigration and Capital will flow in upon us in abundance. I am for self-government, and education upon sound religious principles, each Church upon its own Doctrines, with equal rights and privileges to all British subjects. Reform and Retrenchment in the appropriation of the public funds, with due regard to efficiency as well as economy. I am opposed to paying a farthing of the New Zealand Company's claim. We never contracted it—we owe them nothing. lam for Provincial Separation —the surest road to prosperity. I disclaim all party connexion, being perfectly free and unshackled —the nominee of no man or parly. And now, Brother Electors, use your privileges as true-born Britons and Irishmen ; return men of experience and business habits, who, by the interests they have at slake in their children and their property, give the best guarantee for their truly and faithfully discharging the high trust reposed in them men,free and independent, with minds in their own keeping, and the will to use them with power and effect, to oppose bad measures, and to support and defend good ones, for the people's benefit. Let no parly differences divide us ; man our good, ship Constitution with experience, prudence, and discretion, to guide the helm and pilot her into the haven of Liberty, Endependence, and Prosperity : Liberty of Conscience, Independence of Spirit, and Prosperity in Purse. If returned by von, no man will devote himself more faithfully to your interests than 1 will. J. C. HILL. TO Mil. JOHN MAKEPEACE. C*IR, —When I consider the mortified feelings that suggested the communication which bears your signature in the columns of the Southern Cross this morning, I am disposed to treat your advertisement with that lenity with which men of magnanimous minds always treat fallen greatness. Rut yesterday, and Makepeace might have stood against the world. Now, none so poor as to do him reverence. Tuesday morning what visions of senatorial greatness presented themselves to his aspiring imagination. To day, behold him compelled to fix his vision once more on the dull realities of life; to descend from the imaginary pedestal, from whose giddy height he had fondly hoped to shed the radiance of his intellectual light on his admiring constituency; and to accuse the public with want of discernment in not being able to distinguish the combination of excellencies which entilled him to a seal in the first Provincial Council of Auckland. The fiat has gone forth, the popular will has consigned you to that privacy which the people thought most becoming your superficial knowledge and versatile, disposition. Therearcolhergrcalqualilicr, besides barren flippancy and unmeaning volubility, required in public men. When you have made yourself master of those necessary attributes, present yourself once more at the hustings, and you may find that Auckland will do its duty without the recommendation of a yard of paiutt d calico ! Your having failed to answer the queries which were put through the New-Zealander of Wednesday, precluded the necessity ol further noticing you. Rut as you have condescended to introduce a fresh topic, which your own sense of decency and fail- play, any reflective observer would have thought, would have made you wish cast into Iheshade ; and, as [ hear "you are again to be considered public properly by your aspirations to a still higher oflireof public honor, I now ake the liberty to put a few more plain questions lor you to dispose of, as you very ingeniously resort to such a method of meeting fair argument and well known facts*
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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 759, 23 July 1853, Page 3
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