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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 63, 25 October 1864, Page 4

Election Notices. : " to-J^a/e. ioiNZiEs^Q. ,^ QTR, — We, ""the undersigned Electors of Inyer'O " cargill, request jou will allow yourself tb/be, nominated as a Candidate for the Representation 1 of this Tbwn at the next lElection of members of the Provincial Council. In submitting this requi- , ' sition : to youy we beg. to §tate -that w.e;do bo" irrespective "of your candidature "or nori-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 the Province at "the "present crisis. Trusting you, ■will give a favorable reply to the requisition,' . . 1 'We are,' Sir, ', c i Your obedient servants, ,j HENRY T. ROSS^ i JOHN KINGSLAND. JABEZ HAY. JOHN COUTT3. ALEX. P. CLARKGEO. LUMSDEN. SAMUEL BEAVEN. JOHN SPENCE. WILLIAM ROBERTSON. JOHN WILSON. HUGH CAMERON. D. SMITH. PETER DALRYMPLE. JOHN W- MITCHELL. J. T. TAYLOR. THOS. HBMMINGWAY. 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. GARTH WAITE. A. T. MANING. A. M. CAMERON. JOHN ROSS. HENRY E. OSBORNE. SOLOMON SHEPHERD. DUNCAN R. MACDONALD. WALTER HOGG. ANG-US KERR. GEORGE REESE. A. BERNDT, M.D. JOHN HARE. THOMAS BAILLIE. DONALD POTTER. JOHN MACDONALD. J. a. HUGHES. JOSEPH EXALL. JOHN MTTCHELL. JAS. P. JOYCE. JAS. LANG. WE LOCKHART. G. W. BINNEY. A. H. PUETTELKOW. THOMAS NIXON. WM. MORTLOCK. SAMUEL ELBORNE. P. H. GEJSOW. G. M. K. CLARKB. ALEX. MAIR. JAMES GARVEN. | ISAAC BROAD. j J. Y. INGRAM. J. H. PERKTNS. ANDREW CUM MING. 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'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, Juh. 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 tho Requisition. CtENTLEHEK, 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 Invcrcargill, 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 reasono 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 frierids 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 continuatice 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. 7 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 tho 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 the Superintendent arc derived partly from the Provincial Council, and partly from 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 riot uniformly — that it possessed the control in tho latter j case, as well as in tho 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"n,9Bentod to, would have fundamentally altered ' tho constitution of the .Provincial Government. As for oxamplo, with reference to tho executive functions of the Super* intendont, it provided that ho should act as chairman of the Provincial Council, and carry out ita faciiioOT ; eend tkat, in cm? of his absence, tray