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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 57, 11 October 1864, Page 3

LATE v " TO J. A. R. MENZIES, ESQ. QIR, — We, tho undersigned of Invork^ cargill, request you will allow yourself to be nominated as a Candidate for the Representation of this Town at the next Election of members of the Provincial Council. , In submitting this requisition to you, we ' beg ' to* state" that we do so irrespective o£ jour candidature or non-candida-tur^ for the office you now. occupy. , , . Wo belieyo j you) to be actuated by v that' patriotism which will j render you ever ready to .share in the labor and responsibility devolving upon the new Provincial Council, in '• the disentanglement of the affairs of the Province at the present crisis. . Trusting you will give o favorable reply to the requisition, We are, Sir, . : . ....... . Your obedient •ervantß, HENRY T. ROSS; ; . JOHN KINGSLAND. JABEZ HAY. JOHN COUTTS.. | ALEX. P. CLARK* GEO. LUMSDEN. SAMUEL BEAVEN. JOHN SPENCE. WILLIAM ROBERTSON. JOHN WILSON. . HUGH CAMERON. D. SMITH. PETER DALRYMPLE. JOHN W. MITCHELL. J. T. TAYLOR. THOS. HEMMINGWAY. WM. GRANGER. WM. BLACKWOOD. JOHN MOIR. ROBT. MURDOCH. W. R. PERKINS. JOSEPH HATCH. JNO. BLACKLOCK. GEORGE TREW. WM. G. BRIGHT. ARCHD. BONAR, Sen. DAVID WEBSTER. WILLIAM NEWTON. WM. GARTHWAITE. A. T. MANING. A. M. CAMERON. JOHN ROSS. HENRY E. OSBORNE. SOLOMON SHEPHERD. DUNCAN R. MACDONALD. WALTER HOGG. ANGUS KERR. GEORGE REESE. A. BERNDT, M.D. JOHN HARE. THOMAS BAILLIE. DONALD POTTER. JOHN MACDONALD. J. G. HUGHES. JOSEPH EXALL. JOHN MITCHELL. JAS. P. JOYCE. JAS. LANG-. WE. LOCKHART: G. W. BINNEY. A. H. PUETTELKOW. THOMAS NIXON. WM. MORTLOCK. SAMUEL ELBORNE. F. H. GEISOW. Q. M. K. CLARKE. ALEX. MAIR. JAMES GARVEN. ISAAC BROAD. J. V. INGRAM. J. 11. PERKINS. ANDREW CUMMING. ROBT. MITCHELLJOHN SLOAN. W. SLOAN. ROBT. SLOAN. EDWARD BRUCE. LOUIS MYERS. W. ROEBUCK. HENRY B. MONKMAN. M. MENDOZA. J. S. JOHNSTONE, Registrar. J. IIARNETT. G. S. CROUCH. ROBT. TAPPER. DONALD ROSS. DONALD M'QUEEN. HECTOR M'IVOR. ROBERT MILLER. J. C. HUNTER. WILLIAM BINZER, COLIN N. CAMPBELJj. i SYDNEY T. BULL. ! H. LAW. WM. M. MACKAY. WILLIAM MOFFATT. THOMAS CAMPBELL. WM. B. GRIGOR. JAS. A. BONAR. ARCH. BONAR, Jun. THOS. J. WHITE. F. CHAPMAN. WM. LIVESEY. JOHN MORTON. JNO. BELL. LOUIS HUME. W. BARHAM. ROBERT AULD. J. B. TAYLOR. JNO. MUNRO. H. ELLIOTT. CHRISTOPHER HIGGINS. To Messrs. ROSS, KINGSLAND, HAY, and the other Electors signing the Requisition. Gentlemen, I thank you heartily for the honor you have conferred on me in asking me to become a candidate for a seat in the Provincial Council, to represent the district of Invercargill, and willingly accept your invitation. Such a mark of confidence from so large a number of Electors possesses at the present time a special value and significance which I fully appreciate. It was my intention, for reasons of a personal character, to have retired for some time from the field of Provincial politics in the course o£ the ensuing summer, but at the desire of many friends I lately agreed to delay acting on this intention, and to resume for a time, the duties of Superintendent, in event of being re-elected to that office by the new Council. I would not have considered such a course to be an imperative duty if the circumstances of the Province wexe more prosperous. As they are at present, I felt most reluclant to withhold any aid that I could give towards the restoration of its prosperity, in the proximate realisation and future continuance of which I have undoubted confidence ; or, if it was offered, to shrink from accepting tiie post of honor when it had become one of difficulty. It is due to you and right that I should state my views on some questions vrhiet liaye already been keenly debated, and which will come under the consideration of the next Provincial Council, and upon which, it may be, those views are not fully understood. One of those is — the nature of the administration of the Provincial Government, as regards the relations of the Superintendent with the Executive Council. Under the laws at present in operation, the executive powers of tiie Superintendent are derived partly from, the Provincial Council, and partly froni ; authority, extraneous and superior to that of the Council, over which the Provincial Council have no control ; its will alone cannot absolutely determine how those particular powers shall be exercised. In' its last two sessions, the Provincial Council; contended, — although not uniformly — that it possessed the control in the latter case, as well as in the former. Much discussion arose-r-not all unprofitable, for it probably led to the formation of definite opinions on the points of difference. Holding to this idea, the Council in its sixth.session passed a bill, which, if assented . to, would-: have, fundamentally altered the constitution .of thePro vincial Government. As for example, with. reference to the executive .functions of the Super-" intendent, it provided that h.B~Bh6uld aofc as chairman. ; of til© Provincial Oauncili and. carry out its &P«$U! i *&d &■*, in efet* of his abtfracfe, «riy