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Southland Times, Issue 710, 16 August 1867, Page 3

Requisition (beply.) Gentlemen, — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your requisition, inviting me to allow myself to bo nominated for the representation of this town, in the Provincial Council now being elected. It was my intention to have abstained from taking any active part in political affairs, but having been urgently pressed by many persons, whose opinions I respect, and having now received' io flattering a mark of your confidtnee as this requisition, I feel bound to place my services .at your dieposal. My viewi on the leading questions of the time . are, I daresay, known to you, but as a reply to a requisition is scarcely the best mode of conveying a full expression of opinion, I will take an early opportunity of meeting you, and stating them at length. Shortly, however, I may say, that I am favorable to the policy of opening up the country by means of railroads, carefully initiated, and constructed under proper supervision, a policy which, in my opinion, is in the end far sounder than that of expending large sums of money in making and repairing the main lines of road. If the electors return me, I shall only support a^ candidate for the Superintendencj who not only holds opinions favorable to the extension of railways, but who will likewise wield the largo poweis still possessed by Superintendent* in accordance with the wishes of a majority of the Provincial Council. I remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, THOS. M. MACDONALD. TO W. H. CALDER, ESQ., Inyebcabghll. SIR, — We, Electors of the Town of Invercar. gill, beg to request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination as a Candidate for the representation of this Town in the Provincial Council, believing, as we do, that you hold sound and progressive views ; and, on your acceding pledge you our support. K. M'lvor J. H. Smith ! Thos. Brodrick N. S. Campbell Geo. Hately Louis Hume F. H. Geisow I. Broad H. Graham R. Rae Peter Kennelly D. J. Thompson M. O. Wright Colin Brown A. Mair C. H. Reynolds William Barham G. M. K. Clark F. A. V Hammer John Kingsland William Lewis Wm. Blackwood G. Suundera W. Robertson W. B. Scandrett Wm. Wilkinson John Sloan W. B. Kingswell D. L. Matheson Jno. Blacklock Peter M'Ewen Wm. Garthwaite John Coutts John G. Smith Robert Sloan Joseph Wm. Oliver J C.W. Evans Jno. Thomson 0. S. Button T. Murphy G. F. Richardson William Russell . ' William G. Moffett Robert W. Harvej George Grant W. H. Nurse J. D. Hayes v „ . Wm. Grainger James M'Laren J. B. Greig Clement Morton Hugh M'Lean A. J. Smyth Edmund Gillow . Barnard Ekensteen George Smith William Todd Joseph Hatch - ; J; V. Ingram ' - James Haigh Joshua Clare -^ — J. S. Hunter L. Rogers Henry Rogers . : James M'Lelland A. H. Puettelkow Lewis B. Sangster H. Dalwig D. A. Smith Invercargill, 31st July, 1867. TO MESSRS K. M'IVOR, J. H. SMITH and the other gentlemen signing the requisition. Gentlemen, — You do me the honor of requesting me to come forward as one of the Candidates for the representation of Invercargill. To accede to this ha 9 caused me very great anxiety, being totally at variance with my previous arrangements, yet from the fact of my long connection with the Province, and acquaintance with its various interests, I did feel, that if called upon by my fellow citizens to take a part in public matters, I could scarcely escape such a plain call of duty. My views on the principal matters affecting the interests of Province are probably well known to most of you, and as I shall take an early opportunity of meeting the electors to further explain these, I think it unnecessary at this time to trouble you with any exposition of them. am, gentlemen, Your most obedient servant