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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 239, 1 November 1878, Page 3

PRELIMINARY NOTICE. THE undersigned will hold a Sale of Cattle, Horses, &c, at the Head of the Bay Yards, about the first week in November. Date will be fixed in a future advertisement. Entries requested to be forwarded to the Auctioneer as early as possible. j C. W. BRIDGE, Auctioneer. ' TO C. W. BRIDGE, ESQ, SIR, —We, the undersigned Burgesses of the Borough of Akaroa, : beg to request that you will allow yourself to be nominated for the office of Mayor at tho ensuing election. In the event of your acceding to our request, we pledge ourselves to promote your election to the offise in every possible way. Henry G. Watkins, Mayor J. Beecher G. A. Oborn Stephen Watkins J. PI. Wood Gorham Lambert J. D. Davis George H. Wright F. T. Aiming Greacen J. Black Charles Alger W. Penlington F. Y. Stratton J. J. Kissel C. Gutberlet J. S. Annand J. West Chamberlain To Messrs H. G. Watkins, J. Beecher, J. H. Wood, and the seventeon other gentlemen signing the above requisition— GENTLEMEN,—I have much pleasure in acceding to your request to alloAV myself to be nominated for the office of Mayor of this Borough for the ensuing year. If elected, I trust you will find that the confidence with which you have honored nic has not been misplaced. C. WYN. BRIDGE. TO~THI-TbURGESSES "OF" THE BOROUGH OF AKAROA. ENTLEMEN — I have respectV_T" folly to solicit your votes and support at the forthcoming election for the office of Mayor for this Boiough, for which office I am a candidate. I trust that the interest I have taken in all matters appertaining to the welfare of this district, and also my conduct during my ten years' residence among you, will recommend me to your favorable consideration. If elected to fill that honorable position, it will be my endeavour to at all times further the business of the' Borough, and otherwise act to the best of my ability for the general good of this town and its inhabitants. 1 am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, WM. MEECH. T O LE T . T ODGI NG S. Apply to MRS. THOMAS, j William street, J Aylmerton. FOR SALE. BILLIARD TABLE. FOR SALE, a first-class full-sized Billiard Table, by Thurston, London, with Balls, Marking Boards, Cues, Rests, &c, &c, complete. The seller is making arrangements at the Criterion to dispense with a Billiard Table, and to early applicants the table will be sold a bargain. For further particulars, apply to JOHN BEECHER, Bruee's Plotel ; Or WILFRED JOHNSON, Criterion Hotel. COLTS. COLTS. aEORGE ROBINSON, Little River, will PAY A VISIT to the Akaroa District during the coming week, when he will be happy to attend to gentlemen's directions regarding young horses. Orders may be left at Mr H. G. Watkins' Store. FREDK. CROSS & CO., WHOLESALE & RETAIL BUILDERS, FURNISHING IRONMONGERS, AND HARDWARE MERCHANTS, Corner of Hereford and Colombo Streets, (Opposite Bank of New Zealand), CHRISTCHURCH, BEG TO NOTIFY to the inhabitants of the PENINSULA and LITTLE RIVER, that they have in STOCK, landing and to arrive, every description of BUILDERS', FURNISHING, AND GENERAL IRONMONGERY. Also, all kinds of Oils, Paints, Paperhangings, &c, &c. Cheese Presses, Curd Mills and Vats^ Young's make, And at prices which will compare with . any House in Canterbury. ■g_g= Note the Address—■ FREDK. CROSS & CO. '