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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1619, 22 February 1866, Page 4

Election Notices. ' TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHUfICH. GENTLEMEN,— I beg to intimate that I intend to present myself as a Candidate, at the ensuing Election, for the honour of representing your interests in the Provincial Council. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, 495 c W. WLLSON. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE HEATHCOTE DISTRICT. Christchurch, 15th February, 1866. ENTLEMEN,-*Ae one of the oldest settiers of Canterbury, I cannot help contrasting the present position of the province with the bright prospects it held out for so many years to intending immigrants, and it is with pleasure I respond to the request of so many of you that I should offer myself as a candidate for your suffrages at the coming election of Provincial Councillors, and hope I may be able, in some measure, to help in bringing about better times. As, happily, I have no particular occupation, I shall be enabled to give my whole time to your interests ; and I promise, if returned to represent you, that I will attend diligently to my duties while the Council is in session, and during the recess, will make myself acquainted with the requirements of the district. Besides meeting you in public, I shall do myself the pleasure of canvassing you personally. I have the honour to be, ' Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, GEORGE ALLEN. Durham street, Christchurch. c 427 TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH. GENTLEMEN,— 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 to withhold the pledge of your votes to my disadvantage. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, J. OLLIVIER. 324 c TO MR. JNO. LEITH. SIR,— We the Undersigned, Electors of the Sef ton 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 Wra Hood A. W. Rowlands David Shaw C. E. Paget Janies Russell Donald M'Lean Thomas James Harman Mahler Alexander Petrie Thomas W. Peacock John Mathews Geo. F. Locke TO THE GENTLEMEN 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. TO THE ELECTORS i OF THE SOUTH SEFTON DISTRICT. GENTLEMEN,— Having received a requisition from some of you, to allow myself to be nominated as a Candidate for a seat in the Provincial Council, I now, according to request, ask you ]to meet me at the School-room, Leithfield, on MONDAY, the 19th day of. February, at 7 p.m., when I hope to test the feeling of the district—whether you have confidence in me or not, seeing that I am an untried man. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, t»0 JOHN LEITH.