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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1691, 18 May 1866, Page 4

Election' Notices. TO R. 11. RHODES, ESQUIRE. WE THE UNDERSIGNED respectfully "' request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination for the representation of the Bays District in the next Provincial Council. Wo are led to make this request, knowing that from your intimate acquaintance with its requirements (as well as those of the province at large), you are eminently fitted to become its representative in the Council, G. VV. Marshall James Picaithly Robert Munro Lancelot Walker Thos. Sommcrville Thomas White Wm. Stewart Alfred Condon Thomas Orr Hay Thomas Kay Joshua Rise George Mason Thomas Ware i John Flurty I George Sef ton Edward William Harriss William Moore W. S. Harris Joseph James Alexander Coffin G.M. Darks Amos Green H. Bennett Henry Mcintosh Geo. Holmes John Marshall Alexander Macintosh Henry Firmston David D. MacGregor H. Haley Henry Waghorn David Waghorn i Arthur Waghorn, sen, George Boleyn Mark Turner To Mr. G. W. MARSHALL, and the Gentlemen signing the requisition. GENTLEMEN,-I thank you for the honour you have conferred upon me.by asking me for the third time, to represent your interests in the Provincial Council. I have much pleasure in acceding to your request. •My long acquaintance with you renders it unnecessary for me to enter at length upon my political opinions. I am, however, distinctly averse to any alterations in the land regulations; and will, as far as lies in my power, advocate the interests of your district. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, R. H. RHODES. Lyttelton, Feb. 21,1866. LINCOLN DISTRICT. TO THE HON. HENRY J. TANCRED. U Lincoln District request that you will allow yourself to he 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 Cary J Stilwell 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 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 tho 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 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 j but I propose, with a view of affording opportunities for tho 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 tho district, I will, however, advert, at once, to a proposal recently made for reducing the piico 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 tho 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 giveu effect to, or that it will ho 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 tho principle embodied in our Land Regulations nas 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 aii express declaration of opinion on the part of the electors. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedt. servant, 72 c HENRY J. TANCRED '