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Dunstan Times, Issue 787, 18 May 1877, Page 2

Council baa nothing whatever to do with your duties in Parliament, wo therefore disagree and deprecate with the cpnduct of the said requisitiouists. Wo remain, Your supporters. Division of District. No, of Signatures. Dryhrcad. 15. Analysis of Requisition to Vincent Pykk, Esq., M.H.R., from D. A. Jolly and others. WE certify that wc have examined a Requisition from David A. Jolly and others calling on Vincent Pyke, Esq., M.H.R. of the Dunstan District, to resign his seat in Parliament, and purporting to he signed by Electors of the said Dunstan District. We have carefully compared the naihes attached to the Requisition with the Electoral Roll, and with the List of Holders of Miners’ Rights furnished by the Receivers-df Revenue for the County Roll, and wo find that of the signatures only 232 are those of Electors of the Dunstan District, and the persons represented by the remaining |B4 signatures are as follows : 01 are neither on the Electoral Roll, or Holders of Miners’ Rights. 18 are not resident within, nor Electors of the District. 4 have -signed twice. 1 is an alien (Chinese). We also observe a large number of signatures which have the appearance of having been written by the same persons. We find that of the 754 Electors, whose names are on the Electoral Roll, only 171 have signed the Requisition, and that of 610 Holders of Miners’ Rights only C2 have signed it. William Eames, Georoe Fache. Clyde, May 10, 1877. Y. a b Mg R. ELECTORAL DISTRICT OE DUNSTAN. IVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN _LI that the Revising Officer will hold a Court for the Revision of the List of Voters of the District of DUNSTAN on Monday the 21st day of May, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at the Court-house, Clyde At which said Court will be heard and determined all claims duly made to have names inserted in the said List of Voters, and all objections -duly made to the names of persons being retained or placed on the Electoral Roll of the said District. The names of persons whose Christian names or whose qualifications shall be wholly omitted, whereby by law required to be specified in the said list, or whose place of abode or the nature or description of whose qualifications are sufficiently described be then supplied. The Re vising Officer will also, at the said Court, make such corrections in the said List, and do all such other acts as are required of him by the “ Registration of Electors’iA ct, 18G6.” Dated at Dunedin, this Ist day of May, 1877. W. M. HODGKINS, Revising Officer. V. m IN BANKRUPTCY. In the matter of the Debtors and Creditors Act, 187G, and of the Bankruptcy of Samuel Simmonds, of Bald Hill Elat, Vincent County, Miner, a Debtor'. NOTICE is hereby given that no meeting of Creditors, as provided in Section 170 of the said Act having taken place, an application will be made by or on behalf of the said Debtor to the District Court of the ! Otago Goldfields, holden at Clyde, on Monday, the fourth day of June, 1877, at the hour of eleven o’clock in the forenoon, for an Order of I lischarge, under the provisions of Section 181 of the said Act. Dated at Clyde this eightt enth day of May, 1877. E. J. WILSON, Solicitor for the Debtor, HALF-WAY HOUSE. CLYDE AND CROMWELL ROAD ES. W, CAMPBELL having • purchased the above Hotel from E. Elliott, trusts to receive a fair amount of support from the travelling Public, Boat of Accommodation. Good Liquors. FIRST-CLASS STALLIXO. Good Grass Paddocks,