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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1621, 24 February 1866, Page 4

Election Notices. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SEFTON DISTRICT. j I GENTLEMEN,— I have been requested j by several Electors of your District to allow myself to be Nominated as a Candidate for a Seat in the Provincial Counc 1, as they ] consider it of great importance that the district should be represented by a resident, closely connected with the agricultural interests. i To this request I have great pleasure in j acceding. \ With reference to the opinions I hold on the different important subjects that are now -agitating the public mind, I may state generally, that I do not think the agricultural interests of the province have been sufficiently regarded in recent legislation, and that if you do me the honour to return me as your representative, I will, to the utmost of my power, support and defend those interests in the Council. I beg leave to inform you that I shall have great pleasure in meeting you in different partis of the district at an early date, when 1 hope that my opinions will be found in accordance with yours. I have the honour, To be Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, EDWARD R. SIMMONS. Feb; 20, 1866. 580 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 baving 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 t 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 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. ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF SELWYN. IN pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled " The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858," I, EDWARD JAMES LEE, Re- ; turning Officer for the Electoral District of Selwyn, do hereby give notice that by virtue of a Writ, bearing date the Twenty-seventhday of January, 1866, issued under the hand of his Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, an ELECTION will be held for the return of a qualified person to serve as a member of the House of Representatives for the said Electoral District, and that the NOMINATION of Candidates will take place at the Road Board Office, Leeston, on MONDAY, the Twenty-Bixth day of February, 1866, and that the poll (if necessary) will be taken on TUESDAY, the Twentyseventh day of February, 1866. Dated this Sixth day of February, 1866. EDWARD JAMES LEE, * Returning Officer. The fo Howing places are Polling Places for the Electoral District of Selwyn :— Road Board, Office, Leeston. Mr. Newton's Woolshed. EDWARD JAMES LEE, Returning Officer. Dated this Sixth day of February, 1866. 238 ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF COLERIDGE. IN PURSUANCE of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled " The Regulation of Elections Act, 1858," I, EDWARD JAMES LEE, Returning Officer for the Electoral District iof Coleridge, do hereby give notice, that by virtue of a Writ, bearing date the Twentyseventh day of January, 1866, issued under the hand of his Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, an ELECTION will be held for the Return of a qualified person to serve as "a Member of the House of Representatives for the said Electoral District, and that the NOMINATION of Candidates will take place at Mr. Ford's Woolshed, on the Selwyn, on WEDNESDAY, the Twenty-eighth day of February, 1866 ; and that the Poll, if necessary, will be taken on THURSDAY, the First day of March, 1866. Dated this Sixth day of February, 1866. EDWARD JAMES LEE, Returning Officer. The following places are Polling Places for the Electoral District of Coleridge : — Mr. Ford's Woolshed. Mr. Pitt's Woolshed. Mr. Greenstreet's Woolshed. EDWARD JAMES LEE, - Returning Officer. Dated this Sixth day of February, 1866. 239 Government Notices. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. THE provisions of the Dog Nuisance Ordi- 1 nance after this date will be strictly I enforced, and any Dog or Dogs three months' ] old or upwards, not found to be duly regis- < tered, will be destroyed. < Dogs found wearing badges not issued 1 (during the current year will be killed, and the owners prosecuted. R. C. SHEARMAN, 24 Commissioner of Police.