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Press, Volume XV, Issue 1990, 1 September 1869, Page 1

Election NoticeTO MR M. B. HART. OIR, —We, the undersigned ratepayers of the City of Christchurch, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated at the ensuing election as one of the City Councillors. We feel that you possess not only the ability necessary for so important a position, but also that your interests are of such a character as to give you every inducement to attend to the requirements of this city, and to ensure for the ratepayers a vigilant and economical government. R Walton George Warner John Ponsford Robert Wilkin R P Betson Jones Bros T Kennedy B H Zeesler J Milsom J Ollivier John C St Quentin W Wilson ' James W Smith J S Brownell W Dymock Charles Kiver, jun Alfred Osborn S Nashelski William Stringer A J Stevens G C Simpson W Strange Robert Black S Manning Thos Osborn C B Taylor D Morrow T X Baasett Robert Sutherland Wood and Cunningham W H Davenport Robert McFarlane J W Oram W H Oram R D Bust Cornelius Sexton C C Aikman Benj Monk William Pratt S Gundry W J Mills Hermann Cohn B Petersen and Co James Shand Henry Gain Thos I Joynt Edwd Mitchell Joseph Jones H B Lane R M Morten W Savage Alfred Gee Wm Jones AlfdJWhite TO R. WALTON, ESQ., AND THE OTHER GENTLEMEN WHO HAVE SIGNED A REQUISITION TO ME.

GENTLEMEN,— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your requisition to mc to become a candidate for a seat in the Christchurch City Council at the forthcoming election. I am much gratified to find that I enjoy the confidence of so many gentlemen whose influential position alone is sufficient to induce any one to believe in his ultimate success. 1 shall, therefore, have great pleasure in accepting your offer of support, and will cheerfully consent to your request. I cannot undertake to canvass the city, but I trust that my long residence among yon, my sincere desire to promote every useful work within the city, without regard to locality, my anxiety to study economy in every branoh of our local affairs, will be accepted by you aB a sufficient pledge that I will, to the best of my ability, endeavor to secure the approval and esteem of my fellow citizens. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, M. B. HART. Christchurch, August 28,1869. TO THE BURGESSES ov THE CITY OF CHRISTCHUROH. GENTLEMEN,— I have the honor to inform you that my term of office as a Councillor expires on the 9th of September inst. I beg respectfully to offer myself for re-election. Should yOu again honor mc with your confidence I will endeavor (as I have heretofore done) to discharge the duties of the office to the best of my ability. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, WILLIAM CALVERT. High street, Christchurch. 8-80

ELECTION NOTICE. PROVINCIAL ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF TOWN OF LYTTELTON. IN pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled " The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858," and of another Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled " The Provincial Elections Act, 1858," I, William Donald, Returning Officer for the Provincial Electoral District of Town of Lyttelton do hereby give notice that by virtue of a writ bearing date the twenty-seventh day of August, 1869, issued under tbe band of His Honor the Superintendent of Canterbury an ELECTION will be held for the return of one qualified person to serve as a MEMBER of the Provincial Council of Canterbury for the said Electoral district, and that the nomination of candidates will take place at the Resident Magistrates office, Lyttelton, at the hour of noon, on Monday, the thirteenth day of September, 1869 j and that the poll (if necessary) will be taken on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of September, 1869. Dated this twenty-eighth day of August, 1869 ' WILLIAM DONALD, Returning Officer. The following place is a Polling Place for the Provincial Electoral District of Town of Lyttelton : — The Resident Magistrate's Office, Lyttelton. Dated the twenty-eighth day of August, lßGd ' WILLIAM DONALD, I g.3i Returning Officer.