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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 512, 30 September 1857, Page 3

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE TOWN. OF LYTTELTON. f± ENTLEMEN,—Having been repeatVT edly asked whether-1 intended airain to offer myself as a candidate to represent you in the Provincial Council, I take this opportunity of presenting myself to you in that capacity. My principles are so well known amongst you, that it is unnecessary for me to enlarge upon them here. I need only assure the electors that they remain unchanged. I am, Gentlemen, Your Obedient Servant, • I. THOS. COOKSON. Lyttelton, Sept. 22nd, 1857. TO A. J. ALPORT, ESQ. DEAR SIR, —We the undersigned electors of Lyttelton, beg to request that you will allow yourself to be nominated as a candidate for the Town of Lyttelton at the ensuing election of the Provincial Council, feeling assured that you will, to the utmost of your ability, prevent the interests of the Port Town, as well as of the Province generally, from being neglected. We are, dear Sir, Yours respectfully, A. BAYFEILD, , And other Electors. Lyttelton, Sept. 17,1857. /7i ENTLEMEN,—I beg to thank you VJC for the requisition with which I have been favoured, and for your expressions of confidence in my ability to represent you in the Provincial Council about to be assembled. In the event of being elected, my desire will be especially to support the interests of my constituents ; at the same time I shall feel it my duty to co-operate in maintaining the general interests of the Province. You have had many opportunities, during my long residence amongst you, of ascertaining my principles and views in reference to Provincial topics. I therefore deem it unnecessary to occupy your attention, or the columns of our local news.paper, with any lengthened address, and remain, Gentlemen, Your Obedient Servant, A. J. ALPORT. To Mr. Bayfeild and the other Gentlemen signing the requisition. Lyttelton, Sept. 19, 2857. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE AKAROA DISTRICT. f^i ENTLEMEN,—In the regular process . VU~ of time, by the lapse of its legal term of duration, the first Provincial Council of Canterbury has ceased to exist; and the time has arrived when you have again the power of choosing representatives. At the first election, now four years ago, you returned two members to the Council. Eighteen months afterwards two other members were added to the representatives of your district, and I had the hanor to be selected by you as one. At that time, however, the number of electors in the district, according to the registration returns, demanded only two representatives; and that was the allotted number by an ordinance of the Council then passed. Since that time the representation of i the province has been remodelled, and the population of Banks's Peninsula has been found to have increased in a larger proportion than that of other districts; consequently, three representatives have been allotted to Akaroa. I now address you to solicit the honor of .being chosen by you as one of your members. The election will probably not take place before November next, but I do not hesitate to present myself thus early before you; for I am aware that in your district the difficulties of communication which still exist though they are now being rapidly removed, and some othfcr causes render it a matter of great convenience to you to know some time beforehand who are to be candidates for your suffrages; and, further, because I am anxious that no laxity on my part should be construed into forgetfulness of the honor you conferred on me two years and a-half ago, when I was almost unknown among you. I shall not attempt to recapitulate here the occasions upon which I have joined with your other representatives to guard the interests of Banks's Peninsula in the Provincial Council; nor will I found any claim to your votes upon my general conduct as a member of that body during five sessions; for I know that past services cannot confer upon an individual a right to honours which are left freely at your disposal; but I may appeal ■ to the knowledge which you have of my actions during +hat time to determine whether , I am a fit and proper person to be entrusted j with the duties of the office which I seek at j your hands. ! I cannot but consider myself, gentlemen, as being by this time far from a stranger to ; you; and therefore, although I hope circumstances will permit you to obtain the services ; of some one resident among you as your, representative in the new Council, I shall not on that account feel it my duty to withdraw my name from the list of candidates for your suffrages. I have the honor to be Gentlemen, Your very obedient Servant, CROSBIE WARD. Lyttelton, Aug. 27,1857.