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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 225, 7 March 1866, Page 3

LATE ADVERTISEMENTS Will be classified in ow next. INYERCARQILL ELECTION. MR. WOOD will MEET the ELECTORS I TO-NIGHT in the THEATRE ROYAL, at 8 o'clock. TO WILLIAM WOOD, Esq., M.P.C., SIB,, — We, the undersigned Electors of Inver. cargill, knowing you to take a lively interest in all important questions affecting the general welfare of this Provinee, request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination as a ! Candidate to Represent us in the next General j Assembly. ' In you, a resident of many years, we have every confidence j and in the event of your complying with our request, we pledge ouraelves to use our utmost eudeavors to secure your return. Thomas M. Clerke A. H. Puettelkow George Perry Louis Hume Alex. Cannon • Wm. Blackwood W. S. Trotter W. R. Perkins P. Dalyrymple Wm. P. Grigor A. Mitchell Wm. Robertson C. H. Horman W. B. Scandrett Geo. Lumsden Wm. Brown W. Moffat . James Lang Wm. Livesey Basil W. Muter James Colyer George Smith John Tapper Andrew Taylor C. A. Ross David Smyth Edward Cowper William Harrold G. F. Richardson Jabez Hay David Webster Duncan M'Donald Invercargill, Southland,. March, 1866. To Thomas Clebke, Esq., Geoegk Peeey, Esq., Alexander Cannon, Esq., and the other Gentlemen signing the Requisition. Gentlemen, — In thanking you for the honor you confer in requesting me to allow myself to be placed in Nomination aa a candidate to Represent the District of Invercargill in the General Assembly, I feel much pleasure in acceding to your request. I am in favor of Separation from the Northern Island, with a strong Central Government for the aiiddle Island. Should the question arise as to the annexation of Southland to a neighboring Province, unless such change were accompanied S>y advantageous terms to Southland, and those ierms well and securely guaranteed, I should feel it my duty to oppose it. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, WILLIAM WOOD, " Invercargill, March sth, 1866. INVERCARGILL ELECTION. To J. A. R. Menzies, Esq., John Blace:loce, Esq., David Mitchell, Esq., .and the Gentlemen who signed the Requisition. /GENTLEMEN, — The invitation which you have done me the honor to address to me, to become a Candidate for the Representation of the Town of Invercargill in the General Assembly, affords me the greatest pleasure, not only as a proof of confidence reposed in me by a number of gentleman for whose opinion I entertain the highest respect, but also as being likely to afford me an opportunity of serving the Province of Southland, with which my interest and feelings have long been identified. Should the constituency return me, which, from the names appended to the Requisition, can, I conceive, hardly be doubtful, you and they may be assured that no effort shall be wanting on my part to represent the interests of the Town and Province faithfully and zealously. Those interests appear to me to demand the furtherance of some plan of Separation by which the South may be relieved in some measure from past, and wholly from future burdens arising from Native questions which only concern the Northern Provinces, but I am of opinion that even the greatest extent of financial relief which the Province* could gain from such a measure would be deariy bought if attained by any sacrifice of, or danger to, its powers of local self-govern ment, and its freedom to develop its resources in accordance with the wishes of its inhabitants. If elected, it would "ever be my object to maintain the independence of the Province ; to secure for it its due influence in the management of the common affairs of the Colony, and its fair share of benefit from all general expenditure, and no me&sure of organic change would receive my support, except in so far as they appeared calculated to further these objects. To all new matters as they arise, it would be my dnty and my pleasure to confer with my constituents, and to receive and impart explanation on any point on which doubt or difference of ■ opinion appeared to exist. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your verv obedient servant, THEOPH. HEALE.

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