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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 6, 7 June 1873, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE CITY ELECTION. 'TO those Gentlemen who proposed to supL port me with their votes in the present Election, and who had not been made aware until the nomination to-day that I should not contest it, I find that an explanation is due. Being late in the field, I thought it desirable to act on the advice of those amongst my sup* porters, who appeared likely to have the best information at their command. These gentlemen advised me that my election could not be secured, and that it would be more prudent to withdraw. I have since ascertained that they were mistaken, and that a flattering position on the poll was secure for me. The decision arrived at was at the time a verdict according to the evidence, and I can now only ask my intending supporters to give me their best wishes in a much more difficult and important contest in which I am now engaged at the Taieri, the result of which, it is hoped, will be that Mr Donald Reid, or one of his lieutenants, will not again be returned to the Council. J. S. WEBB. TO THE ELECTOES OF THE TAIERI. GENTLEMEN,— I have the honor to state that I am a Candidate for your suffrages at the approaching Election of Representatives for [your district in the Provincial Council. The kind reception I have received from a large number of gentlemen amongst you, and the promises of support they have given me, lead me to hope that my candidature may also be received favourably in those parts of your large district \\ r luch I have not yet personally visited. I shall take the first possible opportunities of holding meetings throughout the Electoral District in order personally to satify you as to the opinions I hold on all points of public policy at present before the country. It will be readily understood that when I undertook to contest an election against yonr Lite representatives, who have all announced tl.ei.iselves as candidates for r -election, I did so <>n public grounds alone. In the late Council a very large number of you were virtually unrepresented. ITurt er, your late representatives have joined in taking a course in the Conncil which is condemned by a large majority of your fellow electors throughout the Province, and, as I believe by a decided majority amongst yourselves, including a great number oi' those who supported them at the last election, I now ask you to return me to the Council in place of one of them. Thoso w 'O have been throughout opposed to your Into representatives will, I trust, unite as one man to carry my election. Those who have hitherto supported them have now to consider whether they are jiibtified in allowing old friendships, and the respect they accord to those, gentlemen as individuals, to prevent them from recording at the polls their disapprobation of the course they have recently chosen to follow in the Council. I appeal to you, gentlemen, to let no personal considerations sway your votes. It is not creditable that the people of the Taieri can have any interests winch should bind them to views on questions of public policy, different from those which come naturally to thair fellow settlers