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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 64, 27 October 1864, Page 4

:? \ r - J ;/i Election -Notices. H; ;: • ; : I -CTOuJf ; A:; ; aJ; v MENZIES,-;ESQ;-^^ S : ISj^-We,-.' .•; the V undersigned . "Eleefesr3 > of ! ln,yer-^ .-•/cargill, rreqUest.you .will allow/yourself ; s><l he ndminated-as - a Candidate for tKe^ep^Bentaiion; of this .Town at the next ElectionVof- members^ pf the Erovincial Council. v - In submitting . this requi'. sition ;to^ you, we ibeg' to state that .•weLdo bo ir^Bpeetiye;of:^you]racandidature : ,or,. > non-c^di'daV. ! tiire for theioffice 3 you now occupy ..,,..\JWe|.vbeueye >you-to beiactuatedL-by. that patriotism which Jwill y render you-/;ever. ready. to : share , in, the labor, and responsibility -devolving upon : the new Proyincial Council; iin the disentanglement of ■ the affairs of, the Proviriceat the present crisis. , Trusting you will give a favorable reply to the requisition, ■' ' ■'■• :5 ' ;; .We are, Sir, ' ' : ■■■■■■.'■■■-■■■■■ -i .:..<.: , Your obedient servants, HENRY: T.ROSS; JOHN-KINGSLAND. , '.•-■-.■ JABEZ HAY. JOHN COUTTS. 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. ; HEMMINGWAY. WM. GRANGER. . WM. BLACKWOOD. JOHN MOIR. ROBT. MURDOCH. W. R. PERKINS. JOSEPH HATCH. JNO. BLAOKLOCK. 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. BERKDT, M.D. JOHN HARE. THOMAS BAILLIE. DONALD POTTERJOHN 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. G. M. K. CLARKE. ALEX. MAIR. JAMES GARVEN. ISAAC BROAD. J. V. 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'IVOR. ROBERT MILLER. 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. 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. I thank you heai-fily for tho 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 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 continuauce 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 views are not fully understood. One of those is — the nature of the aduuriiatration of the Provincial Government, as regards the relations o£ the Superintendent with the Executive Council. 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 tho 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 tho 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 tho constitution of the Provincial Government. Ab for example, with reference to the executive functions of. the Superintendent, it provided that he 'should bet as cliairman of the Provincial Counoil, and carry out its d*ciii<raa } and that, in case of We absence, *ay