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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 36, 1 August 1855, Page 1

PREMIUM FOR DESIGNS FOR COLLEGE BUILDINGS. TO ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS.— The Board of Trustees of the Nelson Trust Funds hereby offer a sum of Fifty Pounds sterling (£SO sterling) for the best Design, and the sum of Twenty Pounds sterling (£2O sterling) for the secondbest Design for a Building for a College, required to contain sufficient accommodation for instructing about 100 pupils in the ordinary branches of a liberal education, and at the same time convenient rooms for one or two masters (in all probability married men), and for the lodging of thirtyJJbarders. The building will beXuaced nearly in the centre of a block of land of^^cres, which rises with a gentle slope facing the weaf and is backed by a lofty range of hills. Tho material of which it is proposed to construct it is strong timber, with lath and plaster outside and in. A preference will be given to such designs as are not above two stories high, which combine, as far as possible, economy and commodious arrangement with architectural beauty, and which are, at the same time, so planned as to be capable of extension if required. Gentlemen offering designs will be pleased to address them to the care of Mr. Jenkins, tho Secretary to the Board, at Nelson, on or before the First day of November next, and to accompany them with sealed letters, containing the name and address of the competitors, which will not be opened until the selection is made. Plans submitted must contain the ground plan of the building, and elevation, and such cross sections as may be necessary to exhibit its character. A. G. Jenkins, Secretary to the Board of Trustees. Nelson, New Zealand, 4th July, 1855. TO MR. THOMAS BUTLER.— We, the undersigned Electors in the District of Waimea East, request that you will allow yourself to be brought forward as a Candidate for the Representation of this District in the Provincial Council. You have long and experimentally known the heart, the wants, and the wishes of the working man. Your property now identifies you with this District, and this District only ; and you have always been a consistent advocate of entire religious liberty and political equality. , Should you comply with this reqtiest, we shall with pleasure give you our lupport at the ensuing Election. We,are, &c, John O'Sullivan Jacob Batey K. G. Crocker Charles Coster J John Sheat John Mercor J^, James H. T,aylor Samuel Mercer "\$ John Young Job Aldridge W. G. Bell, jun. William Holdaway VJohn Holdaway George Sutton Joseph Bonnington John Sutton William O'Dwyer James Haycock Alfred Saunders Thomas Haycock John Batt Thomas Roach Richard Hart Samuel Bartlett Henry Brawn Bernard Gapper Henry Lankow William Lowden John Lankow David Hammond Richard Kferman Joseph Hammond George Saywell To Mr. John v O'Suixivan and other Electors, who h£»ve honoured me with their names to the above Requisition. Gentlemen — While I feel my want of ability to serve you as I could desire, it will be a great pleasure (should it be their wish) to serve as I best can the Electors of this large and important District, many of whom I have had the happiness to be acquainted with fromithe earliest formation of this Settlement. The great fundamental principles alluded to in your Requisition I fully appreciate, and, if elected, it will be my aim to serve no party, but to give, according to my own judgment, an independent voto for or against such pleasures as may come under my notice in the Council. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Thomas Btjilee. Waimea East, July 24, 1855. TO FEDOR KELLING, ESQ., Waimea East. — Sir — The enlargement of the Provincial Council having rendered necessary the election of members to watch oveivthe interests of the agricultural districts, and of the Province generally, we, the undersigned electors of this district, have respectfully to request that you will allow yourself to be nominated as a candidate for our representation. The especial grounds on which we have to request that you will do us this honour are, thaj^raoneof a body of men once members of a foreign nation, you have become thoroughly embodiaft in interests and feeling with the inhabitants of/your adopted land; that you are well acqwiinted yah. the requirements of an agricultural comnVinity/ and further, that, by electing yourself as ow^Kpresentative, we should, while electing one in whose judgment we had perfect confidence, also at the same time give an opportunity to a body of our most valuable fellow settlers of expressing their feelings and wishes through one born in their native fatherland. 6 We have the honour to be, Sir, v>_ Your obedient, humble servants, -j. Graham D* Hunter Henry Fanzelow, sen. / f W. Lyne, sen. Henry Fanzelow, jun. William Dale F. L. Windelborn William Harkness Samuel Jeffries W. Cleaver Levi James G. Lyne J. Winterburn J. W. Barnicoat E. Lyne, jun. W. O. Cautley T. Lyne James B. Wemyss Thomas Kite William Snow James Ranger George Castles George Hooper Nathaniel Edwards Joseph Newport F. A. Laking Henry Feven F. Wendelborn,jun. George Kinzett F. Tietjen George Kinzett, jun. Richmond, June 16, 1855. To Gbaham Hunter, Esq., and the other Gentlemen who have signed the Requisition. Gentlemen — In answer t#the Requisition you have done me the honour to forward, to become a Candidate for the Representation of the District of Waimea East in the Provincial Council, I consider it my duty to comply with the wishes of so many of my fellow settlers. Fully aware of the responsibility involved in the duties I should be called upon to perform, in case of my election, and the diffidence I feel in coming forward to represent such a numerous and respectable body in one of our most important agricultural districts, appears to me that a more competent person should represent you. This being my opinion, I feel the more flattered that you should have bestowed upon me the honour and confidence you have done. If I should be returned as your Member, be assured that I will exert myself to the best of my ability for the general interests of the Province, and this District in particular. Gentlemen, I have the honour io be Your obedient humble servant, Fedob Keixi>'G. Ran<sau 3 July 10, 1853.