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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 593, 16 July 1853, Page 7

TO FRANCIS OTTERSON, Eiq. Sia— We, the undersigned Electors of the Waimea East District, request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination at a candidate for a seat in the Provincial Council as one of the members for this District. -m From your long and extensive connection with this District, your knowledge and experience, your devoted zeal in whatever is calculated to benefit the agricultural community, combined with yonr industrious and persevering habits, we are of opinion that the interests of this important agricultural district could not be intrusted to better handa; and should you accede to our request, you may rely on our support, _, .49 ■ We remain, sir, Yours faithfully, J Batey , A Hart A Ogg { R Hunter W Harkness J Roberts W M'Rae R Newth M O'Loughlen C Kelling ' FKelling W Wooley ] J Nixon J GledhiU T Butler C Coster J R Crocker H Gifford R Wallis J Balk CB Wither! CFanselow ' H Brown T W C Heine I Gifford H Randall C Palmer J Haycock J Harford J Sheat E Webby A G Jenkins J Flower T Roche WG Bell, jun. W Neal J Gifford W Snow T Giflord J Schrowder C Schwass J Hewitt W O Cautley S Windelborn, jun. M Little W Beckett W G Bell T Lines W Cleaver H S Martin F O Laiking J O'Sullivan G Caatle J Taylor R Hart D Hammond '; J Gifford B Lusty W Dartnell J Beamsley J M'Hardy F Lange G Kinzett >.l John Win C Beat F Tietzen G Gifford T Haycock M Bruning Benjaman Lines ; J Ruas James Ranger F Windelborn, sen. John James WAWeightman Joseph Newport T J -Thompson John Young J Batt R Hyland G Hooper John Lange T Kite W Win. H Fiven To Mr. Jacob Batby, and the other Gentlemen who have signed the above Requisition. Gentlemen— l have to acknowledge the receipt of | your Requisition requesting me to become a candidate for the representation of Waimea East in the Provincial Council. In reply, I beg to state that it was not my intention to have accepted the honor you are desirous of conferring upon me, as I felt that a more [eligible person could have been selected— besides, the necessary duties would in some degree interfere with my personal pursuits : but when I see the request coming from so numerous and respectable a body of my fellow settlers I cannot but feel it my duty to accede to your wishes. With the full intention of doing everything in my power to promote the interests of this important agricultural district should I be returnedt and thanking you sincerely for the opinion you are pleased to express in my favour, I am, gentlemen, Your obedient servant. Francis Otterson. Waimea East, July 7, 1853.

!CTO CHARLES ELLIOTT, Esq., fjfes 'NELSON. Sja— We, the undersigned, residents or interested in the Wairau DUtrict, request you to come forward as a Candidate for our Representation in the Provincial Council about to be established in accordance with the New Constitution. From your long residence in the colony, dating from its earliest times, from your interest in this particular district as a stockholder, and from your known political principles, we do not hesitate to say we believe you eminently fitted to be one of our Members in that Council which will have the government of matters more particularly local, and from which must emanate those measures which shall not only refer to the mere individual interest of the stockholder, but give the Wairau that importance which it ought deservedly to hold, and which can only be obtained by our Representatives having a knowledge ef its more remote parts, and feeling the necessity of taking those steps which shall remove their isolation as soon as possible, thereby bringing the whole District into as speedy and easy communication with the capital, Nelson, as the nature of the country will allow, and thus enabling us more fully to participate in the advantages of self-government. Feeling convinced that you will always steadily and unhesitatingly advocate our interests, local and political, while regarding the interests of the Province generally, we beg to assure you of our utmost support in the event of your returning a favourable answer to our request. We are, sir, Your obedient' servants, E. D. Sweet, Hillersden, Wairau Valley Francis L. Vickerman, Netherwood, Waihopai Valley j James Allison, Avondale, Waihopai Valley William Brydon, Delta Station John Frazer, Waihopai John Maxwell, Taylor Valley, Wairau George M'Rae, Blarich, Awatere Charles Ross, River M'Rae, Awatere A. Mowatt, Ardamarlock, Awatere W. H. Eyes, Richmond Brook, Awatere Frederick A. Weld, Flaxbourne A. F. C. Clifford, Woodside, near Flaxbourne James Lifting, Flaxboume George Kemp, Kempton Thomas Redwood, Waihopai Valley John Godfrey, Wairau Hotel, WainuCPlain 1 Thomas Hannam, Waihopai John O'Dwyer, Wairau Plain W. Budge, Cambourne, Wairau George Ratt, Wairau Plain. To E. D. Sweet, Esq., and the (other gentlemen who have signed the above Requisition. Gentlemen — In reply to your kind invitation to become a Candidate to represent the district of Wairau in the Provincial Council, I beg to say that it will afford me great satisfaction to comply with your request. „._,.. »*. The extent and importance of the Wairau district, tne large capital embarked in it, and the consequence it muse rapidly attain if only rendered more accessible for settlement, make it certain to become at no distant day a ™ M *™ tt * I J| o portion of our Province. To open up the whole district by roads, to improve its means of communication with Nelson, andlto protect the interests of the stockholder on the one hand, andpromote the actual settlement of its •vsUable land on the othe?, will be the measures which I shall fed bound to advocate should you do me the honour of electing me as your representative. . Thanking you for your promised support, 1 have the honour.to be, Ip»UeiMn, Tour obedient servant, NCl** June 14, 1 IS», „ Cg*»M« Km,i«tt.