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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1613, 14 February 1866, Page 4

Election Notices* TO THE ELECTORS OF THE KAIAPOI DISTRICT. GENTLEMEN, -I beg to offer myself as a Candidate for the representation of your district in the Qeneral Assembly. My long connection with the District will, I hope, justify me in asking your support. Your obedient servant, JOSEPH BESWICK. Griathorpe, Kaiapoi, Feb 5, 1866. C 217 TO JAMES WYLDE, ESQ. SIR, —We the Undersigned Electors of the Town of Kaiapoi, beg to request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination for the representation of the Town of Kaiapoi in the next Provincial Council. James Perrin J. 11. Aldridge W. A. Crooke Richard Woodford James Anderson Thomas Pearce G. F. Day Andrew ltainey Samuel Neville Benjamin Ellis H. Middleton j R. Belcher C. Fairweather ( Henry Buchanan W. D. Buddie John Sims Win, Thos. Newnham Geo. C. Black Hubert Oram John Moore J. Nettleton W. Jannaway John Ellen John Simpson R. H. Matthews H. Somersett James Craig Henry Hay man Wm. Kirton R. Ferguson G. Hancock W. Burnip E. G. Kerr John Hebden C. i.ezard Austin Spillard James Ashworth John Ruff Wm. Hall John Winterbourne Wm. Burnett To MR. JAMES PERRIN, and the Gentlemen signing the requisition. Gentlemen — I have much pleasure in acceding to your request, that I will allow myself to be nominated as a candidate for the representation of your district. I am so well known to you all, that it is not necessary that I should now enter at length into my political opinions ; but there is one subject on which it is right that I should express a distinct opinion. I wish, therefore, to state that I am entirely opposed to any alteration in the price of our Waste Lands, believing that the scheme proposed by Mr. Travers would be equally unfair to the large runholder and the I small freeholder, and, if carried out, would be ruinous to the general prosperity of the province. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, JAMES WYLDE. Egglesfield, Feb. 9,1866. c 325 TO THE ELECTORS OF THE RICCARTON DISTRICT. GENTLEMEN,— I beg to inform you that it is my intention to offer myself as a candidate for the honour of again representing you in the next Provincial Council. The following are my views on several important provincial questions. I believe that the maintenance of the main thoroughfares of the province should be chargeable upon the public revenue, and not be a burden upon the pockets of the ratepayers of one or two Road Board districts. You will remember that I am adverse to the systein of toll-bars; and, if elected, I shall use my utmost endeavour to obtain the repeal of that part of the Road Board Ordinance authorising the levying of tolls. I shall support any measure which may be brought forward to provide for all classes of the community a good education in the most economical way. The present educational system being defective, and very expensive in its working.

If farther legislation should be found requisite for the licensing of public-houses, I may say that I shall support any bill which would have the effect of limiting the number of public-houses, by granting licences for hotels and accommodation-houses only. I think the Provincial Treasurer should be a member of the Provincial Council and of the Government for the time being; and, as the circumstances of the province require economy in the administration of the public funds, an amalgamation of the offices of Provincial Secretary and Provincial Treasurer might be made. As quickly as the revenue will permit, I would urge the carrying on of the Great Northern and Southern Railways, and all the other works necessary for the development of the resources of the province. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, 226 c W. P. COWLISHAW. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CUT OF CHRISTCHURCH. GENTLEMEN, —As several Candidates are presenting themselves for your suffrages at tli£ approaching dissolution of the Provincial Council, I have the honour to acquaint you that I purpose offering myself for re-elcclion ns one of your representatives. I have had the honour to hold a seat in the Council since its enlargement in 1855, and may, without much egotism, ask you to judge of my qualifications for the trust I seek at your hands by my past career. Opportunities will doubtless be ailiorded to the Candidates to explain their sentiments more fully than is usual in an address of this nature when I shall have the pleasure of meeting you. I shall endeavour to .call upon you iiuliridually, if possible; but, as this is necessarily a work of time, and time is our most valuable commodity, I trust you will at least do me the favour to retain' in your minds a recollection of the past as an inducement to withhold the pledge of your votes to my disadvantage. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, J. OLLIVIER. 324 c