NOMINATION.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 307, 15 September 1875, Page 2

NOMINATION.

.Tfa for- a member to serve in the Provincial Council, in the room of Mr. Woodbine Johnson, took plSfe'e at tlio Court House, Gisborne, on Monday last, at noon. There was a fair attendance of the electors. The-Returning Officer (Dr. Nesbitt) having read the writ authorising the election, balled upon any one present ;wh(rhrnt-*un»Ylidate do Mr. Hardy proposed, and Mr Crawford seconded—That Mr. Stapletßit’ Cotton Caulton was a fit and proper person to represent the electorate _in and Mr. Breingan- seconded, that Mr. Henry Edwin Webb was a fit and proper person to 'represent the electorate. g[J £) ,;i J

There were no father candidates. Mr. Caulton in co'fiMrig'fowbhrd-Wasl&S iW no one else in the field, and considered that as pnawith a [considerable interest in the place., he [had Bdm® ctaitoto’ the’ Suffrage's of the eleotorji ;He identified himself i witfe. [the district; if it rose he would risb - ;’ [if it fell he too, : which it [would be his, earnest endeavor to [prevent lie Had gained some expedience vriiile ’oa : the i; H6lid'"B6aird, and ■during his visifctaiAndkiahd' ’had got |a good iijsi^t l iiit i Q....the. wording of [provincial institution^,;, and he had ionly to say fliaf'if eku’tbd hq would jdo his best to further thd'interests of his constituency,; : .;i. h«a nwolli'l ,[ Mr. Webb thought that those who iweiteiiidiffereni; as to the- HeddSsity holding another election would alter jtheir views now siaee-the probable fate of the Bjll was kueyfii.-r He [had persistently held to the belief that [the Bill would not pass .thiai/Pariia[ment, and that belief was confirmed ■from what had recently taken place. ]The Abolition Bi’lb’was in Committee— Kn limbo, in .tflfte-qgld from that he [was convinced it would never emerge ■again as an entire Bitt before the whole [House. He believed thati.jioiJiew business would ,be initiated in the Provincial Council; bdcause abolition Nvas bound t& be a fitet; but out districts which, like Poverty Bay, were considered hostile to Provincial institutions as, a[ rule; and to : the Auckland government in particular, should be careful .and select their best man to secure'® fair shave of revfeiMie ad well as justice. He differed from those SvlKy.thonght ithat the next Session tYilLhejaSL-Unimportant one. There |vould certainly be little left; to be done besides Winding up’the-estate, but sometimes that required morqtact and intelligeiit judgment tfiain 'tM nianagenient of it betorehaild. He was BensiMrtbf l tbe4ioribrable i 'Vc>Sitio'fihis friends 'Voluntarily ’ proffered 1 ’hitti to' pecupy, and’kajd, W'cbnblutfta.' lhat he’ could refer ’With *6Sffidbhee W position he had-tatefi >ttp r 'WiriFrbgard' to public matters inc the past;’® 3 '‘a guarantee that, dim elected, che would Continue to do his jitmost towards the, advancement of tee welfare of the district.

In answer to Mr. Blair, Mr. Webb said that he was in favor of the Abolition Bill now before the House, but thought that the Government would come much firmer out of the struggle if they referred the question to the country. Mr. Webb would take the opportunity to answer a question which had been putto him Ho theught it would bBtimpolitic,.alad in bad taste, to raise an abolition question in the Uonncii.-" itiras uur rttrtyritriimteteu most ,o.ut. .of provincial institjitiops while tiid/ lasted; And totiiSG teem to suftend .wAxeuldMUi&uJi displaying any undue hostility towards them. The Returning Officei then galled for a shoiW .bf haiids'.tepbhlwhiclb five were held up for, Mr. Caulton, and,ten for Mr. 1 Webb. ’ ‘ 11 Mr. Hardy;"dri behalf ®f Mr. Caulton,, demanded a poll,. wihichjtho electors will see:: (has been-fixed for. Tdesday next, the.2lst.inst. ; j .»•