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OTAGO DAILY TIMES, JUNE 7, 1867

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TO JAMES MALCOLM, Esq. SIR —We, the undersigned electors o£ tho District of Port Chalmers, beg to request that you will allow yourself to be placed in nomination, at the forthcoming Election, as a candidate to represent us iv tho General Assembly,' From your well known political views upon j the various questions which affect the Pro vince, and the Middle Island generally, we feel sure that, if returned, you will fully re present our interests; and should you re spond favorably to this request, wo pledge ourselves to do our utmost to secure your election. We are, &c., Daniel Rolfo Thomas Brebner Andrew Wilson Alexander Pullar David Kilgour James Stumbles (And 83 others.) TO DANIEL ROLFE, Esq., " And the other Gentlemen signing the Re quisition. jft ENTLEMEN-I have received your very " numerously and inflnentially signed re- I quisition that I should allow myself to be placed in nomination at the forthcoming election, as a candidate to represent you in tho General Assembly j and I have much plea sure in complying with your request. Should I be elected, you may rest assured that my gratitudo for your kindness aud con fidence shall be manifested by the utmost exertion on my part to do the best for your interests ; and I trust that I shall be found not only to have the desire to do bo, but to have sufficient acquaintance with those in terests, and with the opinions which you hold as to tho manuer in which they can best be served. As I may not liave an opportunity of ad dresHuig all the Electors in the District, I may here mention tliat I am in favor of Sepa ration, financial or political; but, until there can be a re-adjustment of the Government of the Colony, in either of these forms, I am strongly in favor of the preservation, intact, of all Provincial institutions, and of the present means of legislation aud administration pro vided for the Provinces by the Constitution Act of New Zealand. 