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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2238, 9 July 1870, Page 3

Station Notices. TO THE CITIZENS OF DUNEDIN. GENTLEMEN— I solicit your votes to elect me to the highly honorable position of Mayor, and I base my claims to your favor upon the following considerations : I have served you as a Municipal Councillor without intermission for eight years—first in the old Town Board, when it began the formation of our streets and pavements; and next in the Corporation, where I still continue to assist in promoting your health and convenience. During these eight years, I have voted and spoken upon every important question, and, if I may judge from my having been always re-elected by the same constituency, I have so voted and spoken to the satisfaction of my fellow-citizens. So far therefore, as your choice of a Mayor depends upon his experience in Municipal duties, I feel that I have stronger claims than any other candidate who can come before you. No other member of the present Corporation has served you beyond four years, and 1 think it not unfair to point out that the periods of service of all other candidates, yet known to me, would not, if put together, equal ray eight years. In point of mercantile standing and credit in this city, I also claim to be entitled to teek the honour I look forward to. As to the candidature of Mr Reynolds, 1 will make but one remark—it is this- If the citizens elect him, passing over the claims of those who have hitherto gratuitously worked hard to make this town the best pared, lighted, anfplirained in New Zealand, and the most worthy of being called a city —if they reject our claims, and confer the place of honour of our Corporation upon a gentleman who drops down from another sphere to take what our exertions have made an honourable and desirable office, then the citizens will not only have put a very great slight upon the whole body of the present Corporation, but they will have sorely discouraged all other respectable persons from henceforth devoting tneir time as Councfllora to tho service of Dunedin. Every Councillor is, in my opinion, fairly entitled to the honor and dignity of the Mayoralty, when, by long service and satisfactory representation of his constituents, he has earned the position. Tear election of Mr Reynolds would prove that the citizens are unmindful of suen just claims. I shall have tho honour to address my fellow citizens at several places and on several occasions, between this date and the day of election. I am, Gentleman, Your obedient Servant, JOHN GRIFFEN. Manor Place, 13th June, 1870. TO THE CITIZENS OF DUNEDIN. GENTLEMEN,— I beg to intimate that I am a Candidate for the position of Mayor of the City at the forthcoming Election. I have simply to say that during tho time I have had the honor to serve you as a Councillor, I have used my best exertions in your interest. Tne large amount of support accorded me at the last Election justifies me, 1 think, in seeking your suffrages on the present occasion. If you honor me by electing me Mayor for the ensuing twelve months, it will be my anxious endeavor to discharge the important duties of tho office in such a manner as will reflect no discredit on you. I shall take an early opportunity of addressing you in all parts of the City, in order to give you my view on municipal politics generally. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, H. S. TUSH, Jcxb. . WILKINSON FOR MAYOR, TO THE RATEPAYERS OF DUNEDIN, ENTLE M E N—Having been requested X to offer myself as a candidate for the Mayoralty, I gladly come forward, and in doing so, have to appeal to the Electors of Dunedin to uphold the principle of electing their Chief Magistrate from amongst the members of the City Council. 1 have been a resident in your City during the last ten years, during which time it has always been my earnest desire and endeavor to serve my fellow-townsmen in an honest and straightforward manner ; and if I should be elected to the high and important office oi Mayor, I shall ever make it my study faithfully to discharge the duties incumbent on that position. I cannot see that it requires a- man of extraordinary talent or ability to fill the office. The gravest and most important duty which devolves upon the Mayor of Dunedin appears to me to be the discharge of his Magisterial functions. I consider, however, that sound judgment, ordinary education, and strict integrity are qualifications amply sufficient ih themselves to render mo thoroughly capable of fulfilling this part of my official duties, in the event of my being returned to the honorable position of Mayor of your Corporation. During the time that I have been a member of the City Council, 1 have noticed that there is a great deal of time wasted and unnecessary delay caused in giving answers to the numerous letters received by referring them to various Committees, instead of allowing them to be dealt with by the Councils a body. There are, of course, some communications which it would be wise to consider in committee, but the majority of the business, I think, ought to be disposed of at once. The advantages of such a course of procedure would be the saving of a vast amount of labor and time, both to the Town Clerk and the members of the Council. Tho public would moreover get served in a more speedy and businesslike manner than at present. For instance, if application is made to repair a drain pipe, or to remove a few loads of earth, or to have a foothpath gravelled, it is often a great annoyance and inconvenience to the applicant to bo forced to wait two or three weeks for permission to perform such works. This delay is unreasonable and unnecessary. seeing that the works in question arc always carried on under the supervision o£ the Surveyor. If lam elected Mayor, I shall endeavor to initiate a system whereby the business of the Council may be carried out in a more expeditious manner. I would also propose to abolish the office of Inspector of Works, and recommend that all public works, such as forming and repairing streets and footpatns, should be let by contract, under the inspection or supervision of a good praotical Engineer, so as to have them carried out iu a cheaper and more efficient manner ; and I have no doubt but that the streets ami