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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 59, 15 October 1864, Page 4

Election Notices.^ IaaIAIAAAaa TO %:'&'% MENZIES, ESQ. j■« SIB;.,— -We, tho undersigned Electors of Inver- A, cargill, request yoii will allow yourself to v be . hoininated as ji Candidate . for the Representation 1 of this Tovm at the next Election of members of „ the Provihcial Council: In submitting this requiaition to "you, we beg to state that we do so , irrespective of your candidature or non-candida-ture for the office you how occupy. "We believe you to be actuated by that patriotism which will; .. render you ever ready to share in the labor and . responsibility devolving upon the new Provincial * Council, in tho dischtanglcmeht of the affairs of . "the Province at the present crisis. Trusting fow , will give a favorable reply to the requisition, • We are, Sir, Your obedient servant*, HENRY T. ROSS; JOHN KINGSLAND. JABEZHAY. JOHN COUTTS. ALEX. P. CLARK* GEO. LUMSDEN. SAMUEL BEAYEN. 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. Gf-ABTHWAITE. 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. P. H. GEISOW. G. M. K. CLARKE. ALEX. MAIR. JAMES GARYEN. ISAAC BROAD. J. Y. INGRAM. J. H. 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. HARNETT. G. S. CROUCH. ROBT. TAPPER. DONALD ROSS. DONALD M'QUEEN. HECTOR M-TYOE. BOBERT MILLER. J. C. HUNTER. WILLIAM BINZER, COLIN N. CAMPBELL. SYDNEY T. BULL. H. LAW. WM. M. MACKAY. WILLIAM MOEEATT. THOMAS CAMPBELL. WM. B. GRIGOR. JAS. A. BONAR. ARCH. BONAR, Jun. THOS. J. WHITE. E. CHAPMAN. WM. LIYESEY. 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. GXKTU2MEJ, 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 of the ensuing summer, but at the desire of many friends I lately agreed to delay acting on this intention, snd to resume for a time, the duties of Superintendent, in event of being re-elected to that office hy the new Council I would not have considered such a course to be an imperative duty if the circumstances of the Province were 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 -proihnate realisation and future continuance of which I have undoubted confidence; or, if ifc wa3 offered," to shrink from accepting the post bf honor when it had become one of difficulty. ■ It is doe to you and right that I should state my views on some questions which have already been keenly debated, and which will come under the consideration of fche nexfc; Provincial Council, and uponvrhich, it may he, those views* are nofc 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 CoundL -Under the: laws at present in operation,' the executive powers of the Superintendent are derived partly from the Provincial Council, and partly from authority, extraneous and superior to. that of the Council, over which titfe Provincial Council have no control j its will alone cannot absolutely determine how, those particular powers shall be exercised. In its last two sessions, the Provincial Council contended — sdthough not' uniformly — that it possessed the control in the latter case, as well as in the former. Jfueh discussion arose — nofc 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 » KB, which, if assented to, would have funda--mentally altered the constitution of the* Provincial , Government. Afl'for example, -with ' reference to the executive functions of the Superintendent, it provided that he ehould acfc as chairman of the Provincial Council, and. carry ont if» decisions } mi that, in eace of U% fttaeaoe, any