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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1664, 17 April 1866, Page 3

Election NoticesLINCOLN DISTRICT. TO THEHON.HENRYJ.TANCRED. O IR,-We, the undersigned Electors of the J 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 Sowden 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 Stilwcll W Jackson S Harwood George Reigon Kobert Roper George Cliff Henry Ingle S Gillingham G A Reade James Grant Robert Rowe Robert Grinter P Henelley WH 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 honouryou 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 will 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 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 believe 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 HENRY J. TANCRED TO THE ELECTORS OF EYTTELTON. VJ by a large body of the Electors to place myself in Nomination as a candidate to represent Lyttelton in the Provincial Council, I have much pleasure in complying with the request, conscious as I am that my long residence amongst you, and my intimate knowledge of commercial matters and the wants of the Town, justify me in soliciting your suffrages. I can only say, that the advancement and improvement of Lyttelton shall claim my first attention j and should you do me the honour to,return me as one of your representatives, you may depend that I shall not neglect the interests you have entrusted me with, consistent with the general welfare of the Province. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, D. DAVIS. Lyttelton, March 19,1866. Cll3O TO W. C. WALKER, ESQ. ?IR,—We, the undersigned, Electors of the ' Ashburton District, request that you will allow yourself to be put in Nomination for this District at the ensuing Election for the Provincial Council, and we will use our best exertions to secure your return. John M'Lean W. S. Peter C. Hurst Chas. H. Greenstreet William Turton John M'Lean A. M'Lean James D. Rogers Foster F. Nixon frauds Pitt Kermode and Co. Michael S. Campbell E. M. Templer JohnStace Joseph Hill. To JOHN M'LEAN, Esq., and the other Gentlemen signing the requisition. GENTLEMEN, I shall be most happy to accept the honour of being put in Nomination for your District at the ensuing election for the Provincial Council; and, if returned, I shall use my best endeavours to further the interests of the District, and of the Province in general. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, W. C. WALKER. March;il,"lß66. c 945