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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 62, 22 October 1864, Page 6

■*^'V ;jEleptiqn Notices. . _ _^ TO J. &:m/MENZIES, ESQ. P'' Slfy—We, the undersigned Electors of Invercargill, 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. "Z. Ih.submitting'; this requi-^ sition to you, we beg to state that we do; so irrespective of your candidature or non-candida-ture for the office-yp.u . now^Oficupy. We^Jbclieye^ you to be actuated '^y t^at?jj^tri6tism wfiicK'-WilT: render you ever'|ready s to share in the labor and responsibility devolving, upon* the- new; Provincial Council, in the; dlsentanglement'iof 'ilte affairs^of" the Province atjithe ipresent crisis. ■ jCiju3tiug;you Yliii give a favorable reply iojftie rfequJßitioily. : ; >^We"are, Sir,^"f'^i^ •' N- v '"\''" % '" : -. ,} '' > /jsTpur obedient servants,: ; H ' HENRY Tl 3tOSS^ : - ■JOHN KINGSLAND. JABEZvHAY: - • JOHN-CpUTTS:-:^ . Vr .■-., ALEX; ;P;;CLARKv : GED. JJUMSDEN.: ;;- : . ; ? ■ \ ; : SAMUEL ?BEAYEN.; ■ r ] ■ •■ JOHN SPENCE. WILLIAM ROBERTSON. ■■' JOHN WILSON. ■ HUGH CAMERON. D. SMITH. PETER DALRYMPLE. JOHN W. MITCHELL. J. T. TAYLOR, : THOS..HExVIMINGWAY. WM. GRANGER. WM. BLACKWOOD. JOHN MOIR. ROBT. MURDOCH. W. R, PERKINS. JOSEPH HATCH. JNO: T3LACKLOCK. GEORGE TREW. WM. G. BRIGHT. ARCHD. BONAR, Sen. DAVID WEBSTKR, •WILLIAM NEWTON. WM. GASTHWAITE. A. T. MANING-. A. M. CAMERON. JOHN ROSS. HENRY E. OSBORNE. SOLOMON SHEPHERD. DUNCAN R MACDONALD. WALTER HOGG. ANGUS KERR. GEORGE REESE. A. BERNDT, 1 M.D. JOHN HARE! THOMAS BAILLEE. DONALD POTTER. JOHN MACDONALD. J. G. HUGHES. JOSEPH EXALL. JOHN MITCHELL. JAS. P. JOYCE. JAS. LANG. WE. LOCKHART. Gh W. BINNBY. A. H. PUETTELKOW. THOMAS NIXON. WM. MORTLOCK. SAMUEL ELBORNE. F. 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. HXRNETT. G. S. GROUCH. EOBT. TAPPER. DONALD ROSS. DONALD M'QUEEN. HECTOR M'IYOR. ROBERT MTLLER. J. C. HUNTER. WILLIAM BINZER. COLIN N. CAMPBELL. 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. LIYESEY. JOHN MORTON. JNO. BELL. LOUIS HUME. W. BARHAM. ROBERT AULD. J. B. TAYLOR. JNO. MUNRO. H. KLLIOTT. 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 of 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 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 proximate realisation and future continuance of which I have undoubted confidence ;' or, if it was offered, to shrink from accepting the 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 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 viewa 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 the Superintendent are derived partly fjomtlie Provincial Council, and partly from, authority, eitraneoua 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 — 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 the Provincial Government. i-'Aa for example, with reference to the executive functions of the Superintendent, it provided that he should act as chap*' loan of tie Provincial Oonrieil, and carry but it»