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Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1091, 22 July 1873, Page 3

TTT-ESTf OET akd CHARLESTON TELEGRAPH LINE OF COACHES vVill leave the Empire Hotel for Charleston, as follows : Tuesday ... 10 45 a.in Wednesday ... ... 11.30 a.ru Thursday 12.15 p.m Friday ... ... ... 1.0 p.m. Saturday ... ... ... 1.45 p.m. JAMES SIMPSON, Empire Hotel. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BTJLLER, DISTRICT. Vjf termination of my relationship to you, as one of your representatives in the Nelson Provincial Council, it is due to you that I should thank you—first, for your confidence in having elected me to that position, and second, for your forbearance with me as a non-resident representative for a considerable part of the period for which the Council was elected. For your confidence and for your forbearance I thank you warmly. I have also to express my regret that, by absence from the district, and the exigencies of my engagements, I have been unable to comply regularly with a custom which might be more honored in the breach than the observance—that of a representative addressing his constituents in public meeting assembled. This regret, however, is lessened by a feeling which I have, that a member addressing his constituents is not always the best biographer, and by the conviction that it should not be requisite either to solicit or to receive periodical expressions of confidence to encourage one who has undertaken a plain duty, to discharge that duty faithfully, according to his promise. So far as my small services have gone, I have endeavoured to discharge them with as much faithfulness, and with as little demonstration as I could command In whatever else I have failed when doing so, I venture to hope that, at least, I have carried the respect of the gentlemen who were my fellowcouncillors a consideration of material consequence to any constituency. The necessarily defective records which are only available as to the proceedings in the Council make it more difficult for you to form a a correct estimate of the conduct of your members, and of their fitness as representatives, but I sincerely hope that, even with that disadvantage, I have not earned your disapproval. , The experience of four sessions in the Nelson Council, I am sorry to say, has confirmed the mutual belief with which our relationship began—that that body, in the absence of efficient Executive power, is of indifferent value to the Province. In this belief it was, during the first session, the endeavor of several members with whom I agreed, to secure that efficiency as far jas possible, and, with the ultimate I assent of the Superintendent, what 1