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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 68, 4 November 1864, Page 4

Election Hotiees. TO-JrArrß- MENZIES, -ESQ. - SIR,— 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. In submitting this requilition to.you, we beg to state that we do so irrespective of y out 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 the Province at the present crisis. Trusting you will give a favorable reply to the requisition, We are, Sir, Your obedient servants, HENRY T. ROSSJ JOHN KIN GSLAND. JABEZ HAY. JOHN COUTTS. ALEX. P. CLARKGEO. LUMSDEN. * s SAMUEL BEAVEN. JOHN SPENCE. WILLIAM ROBERTSON. JOHN WILSON. - HUGH CAMERON. :.-■' D. SMITH. PETER DALRYMPLE. JOHN W. MITCHELL. JVT. TAYLOR. THOS. HEMMING WAY. WM. GRANGER. WM. BLACKWOOD. JOHN MOIR. ROBT. MURDOCH. W. R. PERKINS. JOSEPH HATCH. JNO. BLACKLEGS'. 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. BERNDT, M.D. JOHN HARE. THOMAS JBAILLTE. 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. E. H. GEISOW. .&. M. K. CLARKE. ALEX. M AIRJAMES 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 1 IVORROBERT 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, JW THOS. J. WHITE. F. CHAPMAN. WM. LIVES EY. JOHN MORTON. JNO. BELL. LOUIS HUME. W. BARHAM. BOBERT AULD. J. B. TAYLOR. JNO. MUNRO. H. ELLIOTT. CHRISTOPHER HIGGINS. To Messrs. ROSS, KINGSLAND, HAY, and the Other Electors signing the Requisition. G-BXTJLEILEN, 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 ofiice; 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 mo3t 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 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, tlie 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 the Provincial Council have no-control; its -will alone cannot absolutely determine how' those 1 particular powers shall bo exercised. In its last two sessions, the Provincial Council contended— although not uniformly — that it possessed tlie 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 ©pmions on thej3omt« of difference. Holding to thi« iuWthtt Council in itfl S'xtft nension nuaaed a bill, which, if assented to, would have, fundamentally altered tlie constitution of r the Provincial Government. As for example, with reffeyence to the esecutivo function* of tlw Super? intendent, thai; Its should act as chair* torn of tfc? .Provincial Council, and cany out it*