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-Election-Notices. _ TO J. A. JR. .MENZEBS, ESQ. Qlßj—We, the undersigned Electors of Inverrequest 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 of your candidature^ or non-candida-ture for the office you now 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, the disentanglement "of the affairs of theTrpvnVceat%e present crisis. Trusting you _wiH give a favorable reply to the requisition, : We i are,- Sir, < : '...;.. - ; Your obedient servants, . HENRY T. ROSS^ "■'■.■■•■ ■'.' JOHN KINGSLAND. JABEZ HAY. : . ■ ... JOHN COUTTS. " • - ALEX: P. CLARKGKEO. IjTJMSVEN. .•:•-,. SAdZUISIJ BEAVEN. •"' • SPENCE. — "vVTLLTAM ROBERTSON. • -JOHN WILSON. HUGH CAMERON. ••D. SMITH. PETEE DALEYMPLE. JOHN W. MITCHELL. r J. T. TAYLOR. , . • THOS/ HEMMTNGWAY. " l ■ WM. GRANGER. •WM. BLACKWOOD. JOHN MOIR. ROBT.' MURDOCH. W. R. ;: PEEKINS. JOSEPH HATCH. JNO. BLACKLOCK. ' GEORGE -TREW. . WM.-G. BRIGHT. ARCHD. BONAR, Sen. DAVID WEBST ER. . - WILLIAM NEWTON. WM. GARTHWAITE. A. T. MANING. A. M. CAMERON. JOHN EOSS. HENRY E. OSBOENE. SOLOMON SHEPHEED. DUNCAN E. MACDONALD. WALTEE HOGG. . ANGUS KEEE. GEOEGE EEESE. A. BERNDT, M.D. JOHN HARE. ■ THOMAS BAILLTE. POjNTAX/D FOTTEIt. 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 ELBOENE. F. H. GEISOW. G. M. K. CLARKE. ALEX. MAIR, JAMES GARVEN. ISAAC BROAD. J. V. INGRAM. J. H. PERKTNS. ANDREW CUMMING. ROBT. MITCHELL- . JOHN SLOAN. W. SLOAN. ROBT. SLOAN. EDWARD BRUCB. LOUIS MYERS. W. ROEBUCK. HENRY B. MONKMAN. M. MENDOZA. .J. S. JOHNSTONE, Registrar. J. HARNETT. G. S. CROUCH. „ ROBT. TAPPER. DONALD ROSS. DONALD MQUEEN. HECTOR M'TVOR. ROBERT MILLER. .J. C. HUJNiTJiJi. WILLIAM BINZER. ■COLIN N. CAMPBELL. SYDNEY T. BULL. H. LAW. WM. M. MACKAY. WILLIAM MOFFATT. THOMAS CAMPBELL. WM. B. GEIGOE. JAS. A. BONAR. ARCH. BONAR, Jun. THOS. J. WHITE. F. CHAPMAN. WM. LIVES EY. JOHN MORTON. JNO. BELL. LOUIS HUME. W. BARHASf. ROBERT ATJLV. .J. B. TAYLOR. JNO. MUNRO. H. ELLIOTT. ■CHRISTOPHER HIGGIftS. To Messrs. UOSS, KINGSLAND, HAY, and the . other Electors signing the Requisition. GentlemeK, I thank you heartily for the honor you have conferred on me in asking me to become a candidate for a seat hi 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 especial value and significance which I fully aP It was my intention, for reasons of a personal Character, to have retired for some time from the &eld of Provincial politics in the course of the ensuing summer, but at the desire of many friends I lately agreed to delay acting on tlus 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 were more prosperous. As they are at present I felt moat reluclant to withhold any aid that I could cnye towards the restoration of its prosperity, m the -OTOXimate realisation and future continuance ( of -which I have undoubted confidence; or, if it ) "■wraß offered, to shrink from accepting the post of lonor when it had become one of difficulty. It is due to you and right tliat 1 should state my views on soma questions, which have 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 operatibn^he executive powers of the Superintendent are derived partly from the Pro--Yincial Council, and partly, from authority, extraneous and superior to that of the Council, over .which the Provincial Gpiuicilhave 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 -liniformly^-that it possessed the . control in the latter, case, as well as m the former. 1 Much discussion arose— not all unprofitable, for it probably, led: to " the formation of definite oprnidns on the 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 the > Provincial" Government. As for example, with reference to the executive functions of the; Super-, 'ihtendemt, itprpyided that he should act as chhirrcoax of the Provincial Council, and carry out its fledfWMfw* tfcftt>-ft: ewe of #*: ftbsenco; w>jr