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Daily Southern Cross, Volume X, Issue 640, 16 August 1853, Page 4

To Major John Gray.

SIR ; — We the undersigned Electors of the Southern Division, feeling assured that you are well qualified to represent us in the General Assembly, request you will allow yourself to be put in Nomination as a Candidate for a Seat in the 'House of Representatives. We are convinced that your well-known abilities" will command almost unanimous support. We have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servants, T. F. McGauran Cormick Egan Every Maclean John Kerr John Grant Johnson Thomas Skerrett William Hunter Rodk. Flynn Malcolm Eadie Clow Thos. Bradshaw William H. Clarke John Alexander George Cole Charles Moore Robert Willis Peter Healy James Dunning John Bates J. Styak Donald M'Kenzie William Goodfellow Samuel Tjmmens Thomas Somerville Joseph. Brennan E. P. Carter Pat. Quinlan David Thomson Pat. Connell Nathaniel Gifford James Kilkenny Edward Waters James Cleary Alexander Pollock James Jones Thomas G. Rippey John Woodland Peter Clow Thomas Carter John Clow Thomas Creavy John Wallace John Hogan James Wallace Peter Kelly John Gordon John M'Donnell William Dixon Daniel Lawler Edmund Foley John Jones B. McElroy James May Duncan McLennan Thomas Gallagher Thomas Fellas Charles Durbridge P. McCrory W. F. Porter Wm. Atkin W. I. Taylor Henry Smith A. Baxter Cornelius Little J. Scott W. Leslie James Lockwood William Miller, serjt. Andrew Rooney John McAnulty,serjt.R. Andrews Phillip Cogon W. Westney George Ross B. E. Turner Rojer Jones W. F. Porter, jun. William McGonigle Dan. Lynch, Samuel Hall Edwin Davy Henry Mitchell Geo. Harris Michael McMullen Bryan OHara Peter Riley John Grimes John Arthers Loughlin M'lnness Arthurs Melgrew James Andrews James Coney Joseph Dougherty Edmund Garlick Thomas Robinson John Fairburn W. Murphy R. Daly George Marsh R Bryan W. M'Cawley M. Madigan John Paton R. Pennington R. N. Barry W. Higgins W. M'Millar Martin Purcell John Doyne John Duggan Dan. Macky. Cornelius Sullivan

9th August, 1853. Gentlemen, — I have received your letter requesting me to allow myself to be put in nomination as a Candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives ; and in complying with your wishes, I beg to offer my sincere thanks for the kind terms in which they have been expressed — and also to assure you, that every exertion, on my part, shall be used for the welfare of the Province and Division. I remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, John Gtbay. To the Gentlemen who have signed the Requisition

St. Matthews Church, AUCKLAND. AT a Meeting of the Parishioners, held in the School Boom, in Hobson Street, on Wednesday evening, the 13th insfc, — it was resolved : — "That in the opinion of this Meeting there is great need of additional Church Accommodation in Auckland, and, therefore, it is necessary to take immediate steps for Building St. Matthew's Church." In furtherance of this object, the following Gentlemen have been elected as a Committee : Rev. F. Thatcher, Capt. Russell, 58th Regt., Messrs. Burtt, T. E. Taylor, C. H. M'lntosh, Mayne, Hoop, T. Weston, Chas. Sanderson. Captain Pulham. The Committee propose to erect the Church of stone, after a good model. A part, sufficient for the present wants of the Parish, to be first completed, and the work to be carried on from time to time, as Funds become available for the purpose. Contributions will be received by any Member of the Committee, or at the Union Bank of Australia, where an Account for "St. Matthew's Church Building Fund" is opened. On behalf of the Committee, Frederick Thatcher, Chairman.

SHOULD this meet the eye of David James Williams, Carpenter, arrived in Sydney about twenty years ago, in the ship 'Governor Halkett,' — he will hear from his only son, James Williams, by communicating with Mr. Donald Mackay, Albary, Melbourne Road, Sydney.