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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1634, 12 March 1866, Page 4

Election Notices. TO THE ELECTORS OF THB HEATHCOTE PROVINCIAL DISTRICT. GENTLEMEN, — As your constituency returns three members to the Provincial Council at the General Election, which will take place in a few weeks, I now do myself the honour of intimating my intention of becoming a Candidate for one of the seats at your disposal. I shall take the opportunity, when possible, of making a personal canvass of your votes, and acquainting you with my views on subjects of provincial interests. Meanwhile, Gentlemen, I beg to remain, Your obedient Servant, 652 c THOMAS WM. MAUDE. 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 6hould be represented by gentlemen fcaving 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 I Thomas W. Peacock John Mathews Geo. F. Locke TO THE GENTLEMEN SIGNING THE REQUISITION. Gentlemen. —I 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 hapfcy 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. 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 Cary J Stilwell W Jackson S Harwood George Reigon Robert Roper George Cliff Henry Ingle S Gillingham G A Reade 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 anxiou3 to attend to any suggestions for its benefit, and that I shall endeavour to promote those purely local objects which do not interfere with the welfare of the province as a whole. I w 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; because I wish to declare my unqualified opposition to it. And Ido this, not only because the question is, in itself, one of the most vital importance, but i also, because the mere fact of ite 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 believe that the proposal will ever be given effect to, or that it will be entertained by any who, i 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 Regula- ■ tions has been adhered to, and to appreciate 1 the beneficial results which have been the s consequence. Still it appears to me desirable i 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, 408 HENRY J. TANCRED.