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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1453, 17 October 1881, Page 4

Electoral Notices. To the Electors of the GrisbornQ Electoral District. I BEG to announce that I am again a Candidate for your suffrages at the j ensuing General Election, and in doing so, 1 wish to assure yon that I will strive as faithfully to forward your interests as I have always endeavored to do in the past. I will take an early opportunity, after the close of the present Session, to meet you publicly to review tho work done, and express my views regarding the questions that will probably come before the New Parliament. I am, Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, allan McDonald. Wellington, Sept. 12th, 1881. 325 To the Electors of the East Coast Electoral District. f\ ENTLEMEN,— I have to announce to you that is my intention to offer myself for your suffrages at the ensuing General Elections. I shall take an early opportunity of acquainting you with my political views. I am, Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, SAMUEL LOCKE. Napier, 20th August, 1881. 221 TO THE ELECTORS OF THE EAST COAST DISTRICT. /HENTLEME N,— Reports having VJT been industriously circulated throughout the Electorate to the effect that I shall retire from the contest, and not go to tho Poll, I wish publicly and emphatically to deny snch statements, which arc purely political canards floated by my opponents to prejudice my election. In evidence of my consistency, I beg to re-publish, for your information, an advertisement which appeared in both local papers, in August 1879, setting forth the grounds of my retirement, as follows : — "/H ENTLEMEN,— When Icame forVJT ward as a candidate to represent your interests in the New Parliament, I did so upon the understanding that one candidate should be chosen from among those who might come into the field. I at once expressed my willingness to abide by public opinion, and to retire in favor of any candidate to whom you miifht give the preference, or if your choice fell upon me, to sink all private interests, and do my utmost for the public weal. I now find that all the candidates will go to the Poll. Under these circumstances, in order to strengthen yo.ir chance of returning a local candidate, I think it my duty to make a sacrifice, and retire from the contest. I feel from the many assurances of support I have received from all parts of the Electorate, that my return to Parliament amounted to something more than a probability In retiring from my candidature, I desire that you will accept my sincere thanks for the support promised me, and I trust that when Cook County becomes a separate electorate, I shall find you favorably responding to my earnest desire to represent your interests in the General Assembly. I am Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, T. W. PORTER." I also beg to quote the following, from a leading article in the Poverty Bay Herald of Aug. 25th, 1879 :— "It will be seen elsewhere that Captain Porter has sacrificed his chance of being returned as a member for the East Coast, by announcing his retirement from the contest. The motive which has actuated Captain Porter's a very honorable one. He saw that it was the intention of all the candidates to go to the poll, and th^t if he stood the voting would be so split up that all chance of putting a local man in would be lost. It is tolerably certain that Captain Porter would have headed the local candidates ; but still, as each of the others had their own friends and supporters, the votes would have been so divided that the Tauranga candidate would have had a much larger probability of being returned. Even now, if Mr. Woodbine Johnson and Mr. Allan McDonald fight against each other they will, by the splitting of v«tes, bo doing ♦heir utmost in the interest of Captain Morris ; at any rate that appears to be the general opinion out of doors. However, Captain Porter has made the first sacrifice, and this should not be forgotten, if, at another time, and with a distinct electorate for Poverty Bay, tho retiring candidate should again come forward to seek the suffrages of the electors." From the foregoing I fell assured you will award me the credit of having then retired in the interests, and welfare of the district ; and in fulfilment of my past promise— the district having n6w become a separate electorate— l again stand forth seeking your suffrages ; and nothing shall deter me from going to the Poll. lam Gentlemen, Yours Faithfully, T. W. PORTER Gisborne, 13th, Oct., 1881. 492 FEBBY HOTEL, Mouth of the Big River. "VTED DEVERY having secured this _LN Hotel, intends to spare no expense to make his visitors comfortable. As civility cosU nothing he will have to make a moderate charge for the firstclass brands of Wine, Spirits, and Beer which he will always have on hand. Town rates strictly observed. 423