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REQUISITION. R. H. LEARY, Esq., Town Hall, Dunedin. SIR,— We, the undersigned Ratepayers of the City of Dnnedin, being thoroughly satisfied with the manner in which you have carried out the duties pertaining to the office of Mayor for the past twelve months, request that you will sllow yourself to be again nominated for this office at the forthcoming election. If you can see your way to grant our request we feel sure that you will be elected, and we will do our utmost to secure that object, believing that the interest of the Citizens will be best served by your keeping the Mayoral Chair for another year. (Here follow the Signatures.) [Reply.] Ladies And Gentlemen. —Before receiving your complimentry requisition many Ratepayers had urged me to offer my services for another year, assuring me that there was a general desire for my reelection, in order that the reforms initiated last year may be thoroughly given effect to. Personal considerations prompted me to decline, but a sense of duty compels me to yield to the representations of those who conaider that I am not justified in ignoring what they believe to be the desire of a majority of the Citizens. I thank yon sincerely, Ladies and Gentlemen, for your expression of confidence, and most respectfully place my services at the disposal of the Citizens, with a deep sense of the high honour proposed to be conferred on me. I have the honour to subscribe myself, Ladies and Gentlemen,' Your obedient servant, R. H. LEARY. Dunedin, 22nd October, 1887. OPENING OF THE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AT ST. LEONARDS. THIS CHURCH will be Solemnly Dedicated by his Lord- I ship the Most Rev. Dr. Moran on November 6 (First Sunday of the Month). The Blessing and Pontifical High Mass commence at 11 a.m. A Special Train, stopping at Pelichet Bay Station, will leave the Dunedin Railway Station at 10.45, and return after the CeremoniesAVOUNG LADY desires a situation as Teacher in a Catholic School or Family. Advertiser holds the general certificate of the Irish National Board, and possesses also those for Music and Drawing. —Address 11 TEACHER, N.Z. Tablet Office.

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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 27, 28 October 1887, Page 17

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Page 17 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 27, 28 October 1887, Page 17

Page 17 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 27, 28 October 1887, Page 17