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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 69, 7 November 1864, Page 4

Election Notices. TO J. A. B. MENZIES, ESQ. SIB,,— -We, the imutrsigncd Electors of Inver • cargill 1 , request you will allow yourself . to be nominated as; a Candidate; for the Repreaentatioi of this Town at the next Election of members o , the Provincial Council. In submitting this requi , sition to you, we beg to state that we i do s< irrespective of your candidature or non-candida ture for the office you now occupy. .We belieyi you to be actuated by that patriotism wliieh wil. render you ever ready ho share in tilts labor aucv responsibility devolving upon the new Trovincia Council, in the disentanglement of the affairs oi the Province at the present crisis. Trusting you will give a favorable reply to the requisition, We are, Sir, .;: Your obedient servants, HENRY T. ROSS; JOHN KINGSLAND. JABEZ HAY. JOHN COUTTS. ALEX. P. CLARKGEO. LUMSDEN. SAMDBLiJBAVJBK'. , 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, EOBT. MURDOCH. W. R. PERKINS. JOSEPH HATCH. JNO. BLACKLOCK. GEORGE TREW. WM. G. BRIGHT. ARCHD. BONAR, Sen. ' DAVID WEBSTKR. 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 BAILLIE. 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. F. H. GEISOW. G. M. K. CLARKE. ALEX. MAIR. JAMES GARVEN. ISAAC BROAD. J. V. IN&RAM. 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. LITESEY. JOHN MORTON. JNO. BELL. LOUIS HUME. W. BARHAM. EOBERT AULD. J. B. TAYLOR. JNO. MUNRO. H. ELLIOTT. CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS. To Messrs. ROSS, KQs&SLAXD, HAY, and the other Electors signing the Requisition. 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 ol a personal character, to have retired for some time from the field of Provincial politics in the course of the ©i3uin<* summer, but at the desire of many friends 1 iatelv 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 COUT3e to be an imperative duty if the circum3tance3 of the Province were iaore 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 1 have undoubted confidence ; or, if it was offered, to Bhrink from accepting the post of honor when it bad become one of difficulty. It is due to you and right that 1 should state my Tifiws on some questions which have already been keenly debated, and which will come under the consideration of the next Provincial Council, and npon which, it may be, those views are not folly understood. One of those is— the nature of tbs adiainistration of the Provincial Government, &3 regards the relstimm of the Superintendent with the Executive Council. Under the laws at present in operation, the executive povren of the iicverbxtendent are derived partly from the Proyiiidal Coundl* aad partly from autfaoritr, exIrzzwoi}* and superior to that of the Couma\ over vrhidx the Provincial Council have no control ; its will alone ezmtot absolutely determine how those particular -power* ehaH be exercisetL In ita last twoußsnoM, tiw Utorinoai. Council contended— itehomh not vmt^n/ily— that ifc po»se»»ea the covtrolia the latter &m, m well as in the former, Hugh di»?a«K«Wi arose—wo* all unprofitable, for U probably led to the formation of definite otmioan on the ve&nt* of diKereoee. Holding to tbi* id&t, tow Coumil m \t% sixdieemion pa»»ed *bm,vhMhifa*Mite& tef would hare fandarotmtniiy tdtered the constitution oi tbx< Provincial Vmeenmeiib A* for example, wtb xe&tfaooi to the ezemtiie fumtiott* of the SuperJx&MMitivrw'uted tita& he, rfumUl a<* m chairjam of &c Vtov'nuM VouwAl, md cirry out tt» $#*xshast *ad thstA, in c««« tff jki* *btmt*>, Wj