Election Notices. Lloyd, Taggart, & Co. E. Prossor. Moir & Staite. Fisher Bros. William Shaw Harnett & Co. P. L. Clarke A. Louisson <fc Co H. Marks & Co. A. L. Edgar. / > Thos. Munro & Co. Andrew Mowat. 0. W. Oakes. M'Landress, Hepburn, & Co. Charles Cameron. Hoyt & Osborne. Ecclesfield Bros. Sponco Bros. & Co. James H. O'Xoughlin. James Clark. Matthow Edgar. Charles Williams., Thos. Gibson. M'Beath & Co. Campbell & Milburn. Edward Ings, J. Tyrrell & Co. Alwin Pahn. J. P. Byrne & Co. J. R. Anderson. Watt&Falkner J. H. Gibson. Hokitika, June 9, 1866. REPLIES. pENTLEMEN,— I havo to acknowledge your requisition addressed to mo jointly with Messrs. Reeves, Barff, and Cassius, and to thank you for the expression of confidence it implies in my desire to promoto tho interests of Westland by any personal services I can render it. Tho course adopted in this instance by the gentlemen signing the requisition is an unusual one. Prom tho explanations offered me, however, I understand it to be their wish 'that Mr Reeves and myself should become candidates for tho town ot Hokitika, and that Mr. Cassius should bo associated with Mr. Barffin the representation of the goldfields. I have ascertained from personal communication with these gontlemen that this is tho arrangement assented to by thorn — an arrangement that may secure to each of the two electorates ono representative in the Provincial Council chosen from amongst tho mercantile mon of the district. On this understanding, I have much pleasure in complying with your request, and placing my services at the disposal of the electors of Hokitika should they be disposed to endorse the judgment you have been pleased to place upon their value. As it is upon their support I depend for election, I will take a very early opportunity of explaining to them my political views. I will only say, in conclusion, that in my opinion Westland. enjoys,^ at this tnomont, an opportunity— if the occasion be wisely and earnestly improved— of ' effecting a most salutary change in its local administration, and of exercising a powerful influence on the proceedings of the legislature, to which the care- of its interests in common with those of the province at large is confided. Should I have tho onor to be elected, I will always bear in mind that I am especially a re- . presentativo of the West Coast, and that the Wost Coast is not the least important division of the Province, or the one - that callß for the lesser share of the general attention of the legislature. I hare the honor to bo Gentlemen, Your obliged and obedient servant, Thos. L. Bbight. To Messrs. Jones, M'Glashan and Co., Mark Sprot, Henderson and Bonar, and the other gontlemen signing the requisition. pENTLEMEN,— In reply to your requisition, I havo the honor to inform you that I have very great pleasure in complying with your request, that I should bo allowed to bo put in nomination as ono of your representatives in the Provincial Council } and if elected, shall JiW my twt endeavors, not only fpp the
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