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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 321, 28 November 1855, Page 4

To the Electors of the Christchureh Country District. GBNTr.EMBN, — ABOUT live months have now elapsed since I first addressed you solicit! «j your votes for the scat rendered vacant in the General assembly by the resignation of the Honorab'e James Stuart Wortiey. His Excellency the Governor has, however, since then dissolved that body. I would therefore renew my address l;y soliciting your suffrages for a scat in the General Assembly. In my former address I stated that at a future opportunity I hoped to give yon every satisfactory assurance. I have accordingly met you by appointment at different places in the District upon five various occasions, and have availed imselfof those opportunities of fully explaining to you my views and sentiments upon the several political questions coming within the legislative action of the General Assembly. It. is therefore quite unnecessary for me again to enter into and enlarge upon those subjects. I would, however, lake this opportunity of informing such of the electors as I hayp^not hitherto personally waited upon, that it is my intention to do so, if possible, before the day of election. Neither can I permit this opportunity to pass without informing such of the electors as have already done me the hon.>r to pledge themselves to support me, ihat my return is certain if they fail not to be at the poll early on Thursday, the 20th day of December. 1 remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, DINGLET ASK.IIAM BtUTTIK. To the Electors of the Christchureh Country District. G KNTLEM EN, — You are called upon, by His Excellency the Governor, to elect two representatives to the General Assembly. At the earnest request of a lartre number of the electors of this district, I am induced to offer myself to jour notice, as a candidate for one of the vacant seats. The attention which I have given to my duties, as one of your representatives-in the Provincial Council, has afforded you such an outline of my political principles, that it is unnecessary for me to address you at any length upon the subject. The present position of colonial affiirsis one of great consequence to the Provinces,-and, as questions of serious importance will doubtless be immediately brought under the notice of the Assembly, it is essential that your election should fall upon those who possess active business habits and practical experience. Should I have the honor to be elected, I shall be as anxious as ever to promote and watch over your interests. The most prominent questions which are now j agitating the public mind, are those which hare [ reference to the adjustment of the ProvincTal Revenues ; the removal of ihe seat of Government fiom Auckland 10 a more convenient and more central spot; the delegation to the Provinces (if the management of their own Waste Lands; tlie establishment of Provincial Courts of Justice, &c. &c, to these, and indeed to all other topics which concern the welfare of the Province, I shall devote my earnest attention, and I shall study, by a (inn adherence to public principle and by a faithful and independent discharge of the trust committed to me, to wiu your future confidence and approval. & have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, John Olliviisb. Morton Farm, Lower Lincoln Road. TO JOHN HALL, Esq., j.p., m.p.c. Slit, —We, the undersigned, request you to allow yourself to he put in nomination as a candidate for the representation of the Christchurch Country District in the General Assembly of New Zealand. We are not unconscious of the sacrifice of your private interests and convenience which doing so may occasion you, but we trust that that objection may not be an insuperable one. The slake you have in this Province, and your consequent interest in its progress and prosperity, the activity and ability you have shown in its politics, convince us that in confiding 10 you the representation of Canterbury in the General Assembly, we could not place it in better hands. Should,you kindly accede to this request we