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Election Notices, TO THE ELECTORS Members for the Provincial Council of Canterbury, will shortly take place, and I beg to offer myself as a candidate and request the favour of your votes. If Ihavethe honour of being re-elected as one of your members, I shall continue to do all in my power to promote the interest of Lyttelton and the province in general. I remain Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, 59 c H. P. MURRAY AYNSLEY. TO THE ELECTORS OP TUB CITY OP CHRISTCHURCH. aENTLEMEN.-The Provincial Council liavinp been dissolved, I beg to ask you to renew the confidence you have placed in me for now nearly four years, and again return me as one of your representatives. Before the day of nomination I shall endeavour personally to wait on you and solicit your votes and interest. Pledging myself if re-elected, to use, as I have hitherto endeavoured to do, my beat exertions for the interests of the city. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, 518 c JAMES GEORGE HAWKES. TO THE ELECTORS OP THE MANDEYILLE DISTRICT. GENTLEMEN.-I have great pleasure in complying with your very generally expressed wish, that I should place my services at your disposal to represent you again in the Provincial Council. I can only say that if you place me in that proud position I shall use my best endeavours to merit the confidence reposed in me. I am, Your obedient servant, 71 MARMADUKE DIXON. TO R. H. RHODES, ESQUIRE. '' request tliat you will allow yourself to be put in nomination for the representation of the Bays District in the next Provincial Council. We are led to make this request, knowing that from your intimate acquaintance with its requirements (as well as those of the province at large), you are eminently fitted to become its representative in the Council. 6. W. Marshall James Picaithly Robert Munro Lancelot Walker Thos. Sommerville Thomas White Wm. Stewart Alfred Condon Thomas Orr Hay Thomas Kay Joshua Rise George Mason Thomas Ware John Flurty George Sefton Edward William Harriss William Moore W.S.Harris Joseph James Alexander Coffin G.M. Darks Amos Green H. Bennett Henry Mcintosh Geo. Holmes John Marshall Alexander Macintosh Henry Firmaton David D. MacGregor H. Haley Henry Waghorn David Waghorn Arthur Waghorn, sen. George Boleyn Mark Turner To Mr. G. W. MARSHALL, and the Gentlemen signing the requisition. GENTLEMEN,-I thank you for the honour you have conferred upon me by asking me for the third time, to represent your interests in the Provincial Council, I have much pleasure in acceding to your request. My long acquaintance with you renders it unnecessary for me to enter at length upon my political opinions. I am,. however, distinctly averse to any alterations in the land regulations; and will, as far as lies in my dower, udvocato the interests of your district. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, R. H. RHODES. Lyltelton,Feb, 21,1866. c 63 TO F. E. STEWART, ESQ. IR, We the undersigned Electors of the IO Papanui District, request you will allow yourself to be put in nomination as a candidate for the representation of the said district in tlie ensuing Provincial Council. From your well known business habits and thorough acquaintance with the varied interests of the Province we consider it highly desirable to have the advantage of your services in the Council, and more especially for the Papanui District in which you have »large personal interest. We therefore pledge ourselves in the event or your coining forward, to use every exertion in our power to secure your election. Numerously Signed. To F. J. GARIHOK, Esq., T.PAVITT, Esq, and the other gentlemen signing the Requisition:— Gi ENTI.KUKN,-I beg to acknowledge T th(! receipt of a Requisition inlluentially Biped n questing that 1 should allow myself to be placed in nomination as a candidate for the representation of the Papanui District in the Provincial Council. I have nmch pleasure in acceding to your wishes, and if 1 should be elected to the honour of representing your District, I shall not fail to do all in my power for the furtherance of its interests, in which, as you state, I have a large personal share. I very much fear that tho claims upon my time at present, will prevent my canvassing all the electors personally. I trust however, that this will not operate prejudicially to my chances of success. ■■ i . I remain, Gentleman, Your obedient servant, 376 ■ F. E.< STEWART:

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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1695, 23 May 1866, Page 4

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