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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2513, 7 March 1871, Page 4

Election Notices. TO THE ELECTORS OP THE CITY OP DUNEDIN^ GENTLEMEN,— At the late City Election for the General Assembly, I stated that I would ask your support to return me one of your Members for the Provincial Council. I have now the honor to place my services at your disposal; and, if ] elected, will faithfully fulfil the trust reposed in me. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, WILLIAM H. REYNOLDS. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE NORTH HARBOUR DISTRICT, A DESIRE having been expressed by many of the Electors in your District that I should represent their interests in the Provincial Council, I beg to intimate that my services (whatever they may be worth) are at your disposal. I pledge myself to no party, but claim the right, if you elect me, to vote and act for your interests, and the interests of the Province, according to the best of my judgmentI shall take an early o portunity of inviting you to meet me in different convenient places in your District, for the purpose of affording you an opportunity of comparing your views with my own on the many subJects which the new Provincial Council will >e called upon to consider. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, J. HYDE HARRIS. Dunedin, 2nd March, 1871. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY. GENTLEMEN,— Being asked to-day by numbers of my fellow-citizens if I intended to contest the election for the City (they not observing my name amongst an array of names in the pages of the Times), I informed them that 1 do intend to stand for election, and if returned will use my best endeavors to advocate progressive and liberal measures for the development and advancement of the Province ; for the encouragement of manufactures for the purpose of making cloth, paper, glassware, for the growth of hops, and every commodity for which the soil and climate of this country are so admirably adapted. If lam returned I will give no factious opposition to any party who may be in power, so long as “ progression ” is their motto. I will suppoit and protect the interests of all classes, as I consider no antagonism ought to exist as between squatter, farmer, and miner: all ought to be alike fairly represented, and until our legislators can thoroughly throw aside class legislation, the country cannot progress. The above is an outline of some of my views. If they meet your approval, and I am returned, 1 will endeavor to have them carried into effect. I am, Gentlemen, Yours very truly, THOMAS BIRCH. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY, f N ENTLEMEN,—In answer to the Requisition presented by a number of you, asking me to become a Candidate for the Provincial Council, I beg to state that my services are at your disposal. I will take an early opportunity of addressing you. In the meantime, I may state that should I he returned as one of your Representatives, I must go into the Council unfettered by promises, and not pledged to support any particular party. 1 am. Gentlemen, Obediently yours, GIBSON K. TURTON. TO THE ELECTORS OF DUiSEDIN. GENTLEMEN, Encouraged by the mark of your confidence which I have recently received, I beg respe tfully to off.r my services as one of your representatives in the Provincial Council about to be convened. If elected, I shall give my earnest endeavour towaz’ds the support of resolutions initiating a liberal land law, fitted to induce settlement by the grant of homesteads for the people on deferred payments. I shall also zealously aid in the reform of oiir Provincial Institutions, so as to ensure the most stringent economy in the local administration, while at the same time the immediate prosecution of Railways and other reproductive works in the Province will meet with my cordial approval. The necessity for clauses in public contracts, for the protection of the workmen employed agaiust the insolvency of contractors, will not be lost sight ef, and every measure tending to renew and advance the prosperity of the City and Province generally will receive my special attention and countenance. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient and grateful servant, JOHN BATHGATE. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF DUNEDIN. GENTLEMEN —I have to-day been presented with a requisition signed by a large number of yourselves, asking me to offer myself as a Candidate for the representation of the City at the coming elections for the Provincial Council. Up to the time I saw the document I had not intended to ask your suffrages ou the present occasion, as I felt, from past experience, that I had not sufficient time at my disposal to discharge satisfactorily the duties of the position. From the flattering nature of the requisition, however—signed as it is by parties who both agree with and differ from me in political matters—l feel that out of respect to those who have asked me, I have no o.her course open than place my services at your disposal. In doing so, I desire to state that should your votes place me in the position of one of your representatives, I shall, as I have done in the past, use my best efforts to promote the interests of the City and of the province generally. My views are, I hope, of a liberal and progressive character, and my only object in coming forward is to do what I can to assist in pushing on public works, promoting settlement, developing the varied resources of this magnificent country, and at same time maintaining the efficiency of our educational and other social institutions. Trusting to meet you before the day of election, and thanking the requisitionists for their confidence, I have the honor to remain, Your most obedient servant, GEO. TURNBULL. Dunedin, 4th March, 1871.