SIR,— We, the undersigned Electors of the Lincoln District request that you will allow yourself to be put in Nomination for our District at the ensuing Election of the Provincial Council, and we will use our best endeavours to secure your return. Joseph Louden Broadbent John George Murray George Craighead William Craighead Andrew Dawson • Edward Prebble T A Paunett Edward Wright Charles Bourn .Tomoo "Rrkhorfr.a



dames Kooeris W Walters George Gary J Stilwell "W Jackson S Harwood George Reigon Robert Roper George Cliff Henry Ingle S Gillingham G A Reade James Grant Robert Rowe, Robert Grinter P Henelley W H Hardy William Williams Edwin White Thomas Holmes P Clinton M Kealley George Mangan John C Angus Thomas Lalfey To J. L. Broadbenfc, Esq., and the Gentle men signing the requisition. Gentlemen,—l thank you very sincerely for the honour you have done me in requesting me to become a candidate for the represen tation of your district in the Provincial Council, and I have great pleasure in com plying with your request. I think the fact of my having a large in terest in the district renders it hardly neces sary to assure you that I shall be always anxious to attend to any suggestions for its benefit, and that I shall endeavour to promote those purely local objects which do not inter fere with the welfare of the province as a whole. i I w ill not on the present OQcaston, enter upon the great variety of subjects, affecting the province generally, which must necessarily engage the attention of the next Provincial Council; but I propose, with a view of affording opportunities for the exposition and discussion of my opinions, to request you to meet me at such convenient places, as will allow of the attendance of all the electors of the district, I will, however, advert, at once, to a proposal recently made for reducing the price of land; because I wish to declare my unqualified opposition to it. And Ido this, not only because the question is, in itself, one of the most vital importance, but also, because the mere fact of its having been raised has already, as it appears to me, done infinite mischief, by creating a feeling of doubt and uncertainty in transactions con nected with land. 