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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1615, 16 February 1866, Page 4

Election Jfotioefr ~ TO THE ELECTORS OF TfIEKAIAPOI DISTRICT. •' 4 ./ Gentlemen,— i beg to offer myself is a Candidate for the representation of your district in the General Assembly. My long connection with the District will, I hope, justify me in asking your support. Your obedient servant, JOSEPH BESWICK. Gristhofrpe, Eaiapoi, Feb 5, 1866. c2lt TO JAMES WYLDE, ESQ. SIR, —We the Undersigned Electors of the Town of Kaiapoi, beg to request that you will allow yourself to be put in' nomination for the representation of the Town of Eaiapoi in the next Provincial Council. James Perrin J. H. Aldridge W. A. Crooke Richard Woodford James Anderson Thomas Pearce G. F. Day Andrew Rainey Samuel Neville Benjamin Ellis H. Middlcton R. Belcher C. Fairweather Henry Buchanan W. D. Buddie John Sims Wm. Thos. Newnham Geo. C. Black Hubert Oram John Moore J. Nettleton W.Jannaway John Ellen John Simpson R. H. Matthews H. Somersett James Craig Henry Hay man Wm. Kirton R. Ferguson G. Hancock W. Burnip . E. G. Kerr John Hebden C. i.ezard Austin Spillard James Ashworth John Ruff Wm. Hall John Winterbourne Wm. Burnett To MR. JAMES PERRIN, and the Gentlemen signing the requisition. Gentlemen — I have much pleasure in acceding to your request, that I will allow myself to be nominated as a candidate for the representation of your district. I am so well known to you all, that it is not necessary that I should now enter at length into my political opinions ; but there is one subject on which it is right that I should express a distinct opinion. I wish, therefore, to state that I am entirely opposed to any alteration in the price of our Waste Lands, believing that the scheme proposed by Mr. Travers would be equally unfair to the large runholder and the small freeholder, and, if carried out, would be ruinous to the general prosperity of the province. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, JAMES WYLDE. Egglesfield, Feb. 9, 1866. c 325 TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH. aENTLEMEN,— As several Candidates are presenting themselves for your suffrages at the approaching dissolution of the Provincial Council, I have the honour to acquaint you that I purpose offering myself for re-election as one of your representatives. I have had the honour to hold a seat in the Council since its enlargement in 1855, and may, without much egotism, ask you to judge of my qualifications for the trust I seek at your hands by my past career. Opportunities will doubtless be afforded to the Candidates to explain their sentiments more fully than is usual in an address of this nature when I shall have the pleasure of meeting you. I shall endeavour to call upon you individually, if possible; but, as this is necessarily a work of time, and time is our most valuable commodity, I trust you will at least do me the favour to retain in your minds a recollection of the past as an inducement towithhold the pledge of your votes to my disadvantage. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, J. OLLIVIER. 124 c TO MR. JNO. LEITH. SIR,— We the Undersigned, Electors of the Sefton District, being of opinion that at the ensuing election of representatives to the Provincial Council it would be more beneficial to the agricultural interest of this district that it should be represented by gentlemen having a more direct interest in it than hitherto, and believing your interests.are identical with our own, request that you will call a public meeting to elucidate your political opinions, providing you will allow yourself to be put in nomination as one of our members. John Hood » J. H. Moore Wm Hood A. W. Rowlands David Shaw C. E. Paget James Russell Donald M'Lean Thomas James Harman Mahler Alexander Petrie Thomas W. Peacock John Mathews Geo. F. Locke TO THE GENTLEMH® SIGNING THE REQUISITION. Gentlemen.—l thank you for the honour and confidence you place in me, and as I am now at liberty I will be proud to do the best in my power for the permanent welfare of the province, and this district in particular. The question Of pre-emptive rights for fencing, which is being allowed at the.present time, shall meet with my immediate attention, and I will be happy to meet you on a future day, at the School-house, Leithfield, of which I will give immediate notice. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, 418 c JOHN LEITH.