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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1614, 15 February 1866, Page 3

New Advertisemnt* . HEATHCOTE ELECTION. jyj* R. BUCKLEY WILL MEET THE ELECTORS ' Of the District AT THE AVONSIDE SCHOOL ROOM, East Town Belt, THIS EVENING, FEB. 15th, At half-past Seven o'clock. 385 LINCOLN DISTRICT. TO THE HON. HENRY J. TANCRED. SIR, —We, the undersigned Electors of the Lincoln District request that you will allow yourself to be put in Nomination for our District at the ensuing Election of the Provincial Council, and we will use our best endeavours to secure your return. Joseph Louden Broadbent John George Murray George Craighead William Craighead Andrew Dawson Edward Prebble T A Paunett Edward Wright Charles Bourn James Roberts W Walters George Gary J Stilweli W Jackson S Harwood George Reigon Robert Roper * George Cliff Henry Ingle S Gillingham # G A Keade James Grant Robert Rowe Robert Grinter P Henelley W H Hardy William Williams Edwin White Thomas Holmes P Clinton M Kealley George Mangan John C Angus Thomas Laffey To J. L. Broadbent, Esq., and the Gentlemen signing the requisition. Gentlemen,—l thank you very sincerely for the honour you have done me in requesting me to become a candidate for the representation of your district in the Provincial Council, and I have great pleasure in complying with your request. I think the fact of my having a large interest in the district renders it hardly necessary to assure you that I shall be always anxious to attend to any suggestions for its benefit, and that I shall endeavour to promote those purely local objects which do not inter_ fere with the welfare of the province as a whole. I \i ill not on the present occasion, enter upon the great variety of subjects, affecting the province generally, which must necessarily engage the attention of the next Provincial Council; but I propose, with a view of affording opportunities for the exposition and discussion of my opinions, to request you to meet me at such convenient places, as will allow of the attendance of all the electors of the district, I will, however, advert, at once, to a proposal recently made for reducing the price of land ; in order, because I .wish to 1 declare my unqualified opposition to it. And 1 to this, not only because the question is, in itself, one of the most vital importance, but also, because the mere fact of its having been raised has already, as it appears to me, done infinite mischief, by creating a feeling of doubt and uncertainty in transactions connected with land. I do not indeed beliere that the proposal will ever be given effect to, or that it will be entertained by any who, from a lengthened residence in the province, have been in a position to watch the course of events, to observe the steadiness with which the principle embodied in our Land Regulations has been adhered to, and to appreciate the beneficial results which have been the consequence. Still it appears to me desirable that a matter of such paramount importance to the future welfare of the province should be brought prominently forward by any candidate for a seat in the Provincial Legislature, in order to elicit an express declaration of opinion on the part of the electors. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedt. servant, 403 c HENRY J. TANCRED. TO THOMAS SMITH DUNCAN, ESQ.

WE, the Undersigned Electors, respectfully request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination as one of the Representatives of the Avon District in the Provincial Council at the approaching election. William Morgan Thomas Tombs C C Aikman William Bowler Henry Matson J S Williams James E Kerr R Walton Spencer A Percival J T Peacock George Wm Nalder W B Bray James Frame J W Shackleton W D Barnard John Dilloway James Hair James II Fysb John Flashbourn Thomas J Joynt Andrew Maher John Shand Henry Jackson Jos L Withnall Samuel Bradley R F Stanley W N Higgins Thos Wm Maude F E Stewart J Ladbrooke J H Bennett A M Thomson S B Stiffe James Flint | F W Delamaine William Pitt R M Morten George Oram George D Lockhart Joseph Fantham Douglas Graham Thos Hetherington Seymour H Saunders G E Baker Chas Lucas George Miller W Mathews A A Fantham G Webster Joseph Fantham, jun To WM. MORGAN, Esq., and the other Gentlemen who hare signed the requisition. Gentlemen,—l beg to thank you for the honour you have conferred on me by requesting me to become a Candidate for a seat for the Avon District in the next Provincial Council; and, in answer thereto, have to state that I have much pleasure in acceding to your request, and, if elected either for that district, or, if sub-divided, for the Papanui District, I shall as formerly as one of your members do my utmost for the interests of the district I represent. I have the honour to be, Your obedient servant. THOS. S. DUNCAN. Christcliurch, 14th Feb., 186 G. c 404