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Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 134, 30 July 1853, Page 4

To the Electors of the Town of Christchurch. Gentlemen, I BEG to offer myself as a Candidate for the honour of being one of your Representatives in the Provincial Council. Should you honour me with your confidence I trust I shall give you no just occasion to regret it. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Alfred C. Barker. Christehnreh, Jnly 26, 1553. To the Electors of the Town of Christchurch. Gentlemen, IN compliance with the request of a large number of your body that I would become a Candidate for a Seat in the Provincial Council, I beg to solicit your support at the forthcoming Election. Ever since my arrival in the colony, amongst the first body of settlers, my attention has been directed to the examination of those engineering questions connected with the communication between the Port and the Plains, on the judicious solution of which so much of the prosperity of the Settlement depends; and should Ibe honoured by your confidence Avith a Seat in the Council, my time and energies will be devoted to the consideration of the best means of attaining this important object, and to the promotion of such plans as may be found most desirable, when an examination of the several proposed routes by competent engineers shall have furnished the Council with sufficient data on which to I ground _ sound opinion. ! It will also be my earnest endeavour to forward to the utmost of my power the j completion of the roads already marked out on the Plains, the opening up of the back country _y the erection of bridges, and the establishment of ferries over the large rivers; to promote the formation of a system of public drainage throughout the valuable tracts of swampy land in the vicinity of the Capital, and to urge the enactment of such sanitory regulations as may be necessary to preserve the supply of water to our towns in a pure and wholesome condition. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen/ Your obedient servant, Edward Dobson. Team Strett, Christehnreh, July 27, 1853. To the Electors 'o_ the town of Christchurch. Gentlemen, T RESPECTFULLY beg leave to acceed -"- to a numerously signed requisition calling on me to become a Candidate for a Seat in the Provincial Council by assuring you I am fully sensible of the honour intended me, and should I be elected you may rely on my honestly studying the welfare of every class in the Settlement, and with firm independence assist to carry out I every measure that would be considered advantageous to the Colony at large. In [ the present state of our affairs it would I hardly be possible to define what those measures should be, but among the various subjects that we are deeply interested in, and which most probably the Council will have to deliberate upon, I conceive there can scarcely be a difference of opinion that the primary ones to attend to will be, as much as possible, under the Constitutional Act to attain the power of self government, the management of waste lands, and the control of the revenue. I should be willing on all matters of Colonial policy to be guided by the express wishes of the constituency, for I consider your representatives are bound at all times to endeavour to ascertain the general feelings on all subjects as they may arise, that they may be in a proper position consistently to act as your advocates. I remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, It. Packer. » Christehnreh, July 2fi.. 1859.