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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 142, 27 November 1877, Page 3

. AKAROA BOROUGH COUNCIL. ELECTION OF MAYOR. I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the following persons have been duly NOMINATED as Candidates for the office of MAYOR :— HENRY GREEN WATKINS CHRISTIAN JACOB WAECKERLE. The number of Candidates being in excess of the number of offices . to be filled, a POLL will be taken at.the Offices of the Borough Council, Lavaud Street, Akaroa, on WEDNESDAY, the 28th day of NOVEMBER instant, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. a. iNNES McGregor, Returning Officer. Borough Council Offices, November 26,1877. TO THE ' BURGESSES OP AKAROA. ENTLEMEN,—I have respectXJT fully to solicit your VOTES and INTERESTS at the forthcoming election for the office of Mayor of this Borough, for which office I am a candidate. ' I have now been a resident of Akaroa for thirty-seven years, and during the whole of my long residence here, have always taken a part in all public matters tending to advance the interests of the borough and district. My actions in public business have always been dictated by considerations * for the public good, and not for personal aggrandisement in any shape or form ; 'this, my actions in the late Provincial : Council, on the original Works Committee, on the Road Board, and in the Borough Council, will abundantly show. If elected, I promise to give every attention to the duties of my office ; to act with thorough impartiality on all matters concerning the borough's weal; V to'do my utmost in furtherance of the business of the borough, and to, in every way" that I possibly can, work for its ultimate good. I am, Gentlemen, Respectfully, &c, ■ . '- J. WAECKERLE. TO HENRY G. WATKINS, ESQ., AKAROA. ' "TAEAR SIR,—We, the undersigned t .^tV Burgj^|£s^iJKj4awa- of, Akaroa, 'respectfully Request that you will allow HI. yourself to be nominated for the office ™of Mayor for this Borough. In the \ event of your doing so, we promise to do our best to secure your return. ; We are, dear sir, Yours, &c, HENRY WAGSTAFF, And other Burgesses. GENTLEMEN,— I shall have great pleasure in accepting your kind invitation, asking me to aIW myself to be nominated to the office of Mayor of Akaroa, at the ensuing election. If elected, your interests shall receive my most careful attention. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen,' Your obedient servant HENRY G. WATKINS. Akaroa, Nov. 14, 1877. « ELECTION OF MAYOR. TO THE BURGESSKS OF AKAROA. - 11 /~1 ENTLEMEN,—In retiring from XSJT the list of Candidates to the office of Mayor, at the Ensuing Election, I am actuated by motives, which the light thinking amongst you must agree with, and which few could condemn. It became to me a certainty that the approaching Contest was degenerating into mere partizanship and party feeling— that it no longer was a question of Electing the most Suitable Person for the Office, and that, favoritism and the cry of " Ends-against End " -were to mack the proceedings. Gentlemen, under such circumstances, I had too high an opinion of the honorable position I sought to obtain, than to drag it, * and myself into the dirt, by allowing myself to be Nominated and Contest an Election where such a spirit was likely to be exhibited, and I certainly should |& not have considered it an honour to have been Elected under such circumstances. I am &c, W. MEECH. I. 0. 0. ANCIENT IMPROVED GRUMBLING GROWLERS. SHARK ALLEY LODGE. SPECIAL GROWL MUSTER, at the Jetty Growlery. Full ,|gr* Regalia. No Cloves. ;, Business : " Trotting of the Mayoral Favorite, and Growling over his ■ft- Paces. By order of the Worshipful the Growlmaster-General, and His Serenity the Patriarch Grumbler, FUNNY. General Growler, JUSTICE HONESTY TRUTH,