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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 297, 23 May 1879, Page 3

FOR SALE. TOTARA Posts and Rails, Split Shingles and Split Palings. JAMES WATKINS, Little River. HEAD OF THE BAY RACES. NOTICE. THE ACCEPTANCES for the Publicans' Purse will close at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 24, instead of 12, as stated in programme. Races start at 11.30 sharp, to suit the tide. G. H. SADLER, Secretary. TO A. G. WIGGINS, ESQ. SIR, —We, the undersigned ratepayers and burgesses of the Borough of Akaroa, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated as a Councillor to fill the present vacancy in the Council, believing that the presence of such citizens as yourself will give a tone to the Council that is not only desirable, but wanted. Jas. D. Garwood Geo. Wm. Nalder C. W. Bridge H. G. Watkins James Daly Geo. L. Lacoste A. I. M'Gregor J. Beecher j P. O'Reilly Wm. Meech j Joseph Vangioni Henry Billens I A. Rodrigues Geo. Lardner W. Kenny C. W. Johnson ! Robert Bayley John Sunckell, jun. i Geo. Checkley Jules Lelievre T. B. Chadwick Etienne E. Lelievre ! Greacen Black Thos. Adams Eugene Lelievre F. Lelievre J. O'Brion John Cullen To Messrs J. D. Garwood, H. G. Watkins, and the other burgesses who have signed the above requisition; Gsetlemen, —I cannot but feelhighly flattered by the request contained in your requisition. I consider it an honor to have earned the confidence which' is manifested by the numerous and influential signatures attached thereto. I also consider it the duty of every citizen to assist to the best of his ability in the management of local, affairs. Under those circumstances. I should have had much pleasure in acceding to your request, but! am in considerable doubt as to the correct reading of the disqualification clauses of the Municipal Corporations Act, and in the absence of legal advice on the point, I am reluctantly compelled to decline your invitation. Should it prove to be the case that I am not legally debarred from acting as a Councillor, I shall be most happy on some future occasion to offer myself as a candidate for your suffrages. Hoping that, in the meanwhile, you you will succeed in obtaining the services of someone better qualified than myself, I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, ALFRED G. WIGGINS. ST. PETER'S AKAROA. ACONVERZAZIONE, to welcome the REV. H. STOCKER as Incumbent of this Parish, will be held at the Oddfellows' Hall, Jollie street, Akaroa, on the evening of TUESDAY, June 3. W.I>™NGTON} Churchwardens -