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Election Feticea. 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 those 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, 1 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 I think it not unfair to point out that the periods of service of all other candidates, yet known to mo, would not, if put together, equal my eight years. In point of mercantile standing and credit in this city, I also claim to be entitled to seek 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, and drained 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 persona from henceforth devoting their time as Councillors to the service of Dunedin. Every Conncillor is, in my opinion, fairly entitled to the honor and dignity of tho Mayoralty, when, by long service and satisfactory representation of his constituents, ho has earned the position. Year election of Mr Reynolds would prove that the citizens are unmindful of such just claims. I shall have the honour to address my fellow citizens at several places and on several occasions, between this date and tho 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 the time I have had the honor to serve you as ft 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 mo Mayor for the ensuing twelve months, it will be my anxious endeavor to discharge the important duties of the 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. FISH, Juxu. Merchandise. Q N S A L E . EX EQUATOR, PEMBROKE CASTLE, DUNFILLAN, and other Late Arrivals A Large Assortment of General Gooils, consisting of— Wines, spirits, teas, liqueurs, bottled ale and stout, provisions, groccrur*. oilmen's stores, rlned fruits, caustic soda, ale and porter corks, crushed lump sugar, fencing wire, sheet, plate, bar, rod, and galvanised iron, hops, malt, linseed oils, printing and wrapping paper, stationery, sporting powder, sarsaparilla, grass seeds, vestas, candles, perfumery, door mats, Milner’s safes, cement, corn sacks, and every other description of general merchandise. TO ARRIVE PER ACHILLES, VANGUAR!', DELHI, and E. P. BOUVERIE: 3200 packages malt, cement, confectionery, marmalade, brandy, in case and bulk, Blood's stout, Wartcr’s port wine, Oosen’s sherries, Burnett and Booth's old tom, Mod’s champagne, isinglass, plain and striped matting, sago, liquorice, Taylor’s cocoa, white clover, alsiko, timothy, trefoil, red ckrm; ami cow-grass seeds, vestas, figs, Eleme and Sultana raisins, New Kent hops (1869), paper bags, Morton’s oils, pickles, and salmon, Albert’s sardines, Lea and Perrin’s sauces, wrapping paper, star brand candles, sheet zinc, Osborne’s steel, Gillon’s ginger wine, in bulk and case, French pickles, ncatsfoot oil, caustic soda, white lead, blasting powder, Ac., Ac., Ac. W. A G. TURNBULL A CO. Undertakers. JR. SPICER, . UNDERTAKER, Established, 1862. And present Undertaker to the Dunedin Hospital, and Lunatic Asylum. GEORGE STREET, DUNEDIN; (Next but one to the Red House) Nightmen. XXTILLIAM GREENWOOD, Nightman W Address Boxes : Queen’s Arms Hotel, Union Hotel, Cragiebum Hotel, Provincial Hotel, Glasgow Arms Hotel, Royal George Hotel, York Hotel, London Tavern, Empire Hotel, Old Identity Hotel, Sussex Hotel, - Oddfellows’ Arms Hotel, Robert Burns N Hotel, Hibernian Hotel. Rubbish taken away on the shortest notice. N.B.—Chimney sweeping done. William Greenwood's name {done on the boxes.

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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2239, 11 July 1870, Page 3

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Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2239, 11 July 1870, Page 3

Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2239, 11 July 1870, Page 3

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