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West Coast Times, Issue 232, 20 June 1866, Page 3

Election Notices. TO WILLIAM SHAW, ESQ., WBM> StBBET, HoKltlKAt Q|IR, — As tho time approaches for the election of members to form the Municipal Council, we desire that early measures bo taken to secure your election, should you consent to bo nominated. We are confident that the interests of the town will not suffer in your hands. Your long experience in business, both in this Colony and in Victoria, is a guarantee that, if elected, tho various Municipal matters brought before you will be dealt with in a practical manner. Difficulties of a peculiar nature will arise in tho first sittings of the Council : we are confident these difficulties will be more easily sur« mounted, if the council bo composed of gentlemen like yourself, possessing very considerable experience in the formation of now settlements and districts. Richard Reeves and Co. Fisher Brothers. Anderson and Mowat. Louttit, Reid, and Co. A. Boyle and Co. Hawkes and Strouts. F. W. Eicke. Jones, M'Glashan,- and Co. William Evans. H. Kennedy. W. L. Rees. Moir and Staite. James Clark. Jamos Chesney and Co. John White. Henderson and Bonar. Hall, Finlay, and Co. G. W. Shepperd and Co. Alfred Clove. Spence Brothers. Cassius and Comiskey. Joseph Churches. J. F. Byrne and Co. F. and G. F. Bullen. Stanford and Co. Hoyt and Osborne. Mark Sprot. O. W. Oakes, Thomas Gibson. Jones and Mee. White and Pirie. J. Powell and Co. Boylan and Cullen. • Cumming and Plumridgei James J. Bartlett. Forsyth and Masters. James Keir and Co. M'Guire and Lynch. Ecclesfield Brothers. John Whittaker. John Solomon and Co. , Alwin Pahn. James Hirsch. Thos. R. Procter. G. W. Binney and Co. Thos. Nelson. Hugh Gordon. James Pizzey. W. S. Lockhart. W. Cross J. Pittor. June 16, 1866. fi ENTLEMEN,- I feel myself highly V 7* flattered by the Requisition you have presented me with, to offer myself as a candidate for a seat in the Municipal Council of Hokitika. My experience and ability I feel sure you over-estimate ; but such as they are -I place them at the disposal of tho electors, should they confer upon mo tho honorable distinction of r being one of thoir representatives. I cannot but regard with deep interest tho great responsibility that may, and most probably will, devolve upon the first Council that will be selected to represent this long neglected and, misgoverned districts Independent of the ordinary business of a Municipal Council, ocoasions may arise when it may bo necessary for that body, as the only recognised representative institution here, to embody the spirit and independence of the people who have cast their fortunes in this country, and manfully to insist upon a full measure of justice for them. I may here mention, with regard to the late contest between Mr W. S. Moorhouse and myself for the representation of Westland in tho General Assembly, that no one can be better pleased at my defeat than I am myself, and that I sincorely rejoice at the return of my opponent, . who, at tho time, was a stranger to most of us, but in whom I recogniso an ablo and staunch advocalo of our common intereits, anfl through whom, with the aid