ELECTION NOTICES. TO THE ELECTORS OP THE CITY OF DUNEDIN. GENTLEMEN,— I am a candidate for a seat in the Provincial Council as one of your representatives. As a member of the City Council I am known to most of you, and if you apprsve of my corn!set in connection with the largest Municipality in New Zealand, then 1 venture to solicit a further extension of your confidence; and should I be elected, as 1 hope to be, my be“t efforts will be directed towards the promotion and advancement of the City and the Province generally. The exhaustive, able, practical, and hosin' ss-like Address of his Honor the Superintendent (and which, I apprehend, will in substance be delivered at the ensuing meeting of Council), I most heartily concur in, and, if elected, will give my most dctei mined support to. I remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, HENRY J. WALTER. TO THE ELECTORS OP THE CITY OF DUNEDIN. GENTLEMEN— It is my intention to contest the Election for Mayor at the forthcoming Election, and shall take an early opportunity of addressing the ratepayers in each Ward. JOHN BARNES, Councillor for Leith Ward. May 28, 1873. TO THE ELECTORS OF WAIKAF.I DISTRICT. ENTLEMEN, —I beg to intimate that it is my intention to again offer myself as a Candidate to represent you in the next Provincial Council. Before the day of polling I shall do myself the honor of addressing you, when I trust it will be found that I continue to enjoy your confidence. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedt. servant, HENRY DRIVER. Maori Hill, 31st May, 1873.
TO THE ELECTORS OF DUNEDIN. ("i ENTLEM RN,— Having represented you 7T in the Council which has been just dissolved, I again solicit your votes, and hope that my past conduct has entitled me to your confidence. lam row attending the Appeal Court at Wellington, and am therefore unable to address you at a meeting; but as the course taken by me while your representative has always been a decided one, no elector will find it difficult to determine whether be will support me or not. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, G. E. BARTON. Dunedin, May, 1873. TO COUNCILLOR R. ROSSBOTHAM. SIR, —We, the undersigned Eleotois of Dunedin, request that you will allow yourself to be nominated as a Member of the Provincial Council at the ensuing General Election. We feel assured that if you accede to our request, from what we have no! iced of your career as one of our representatives in the Municipal Council, you will make a consistent and useful member of the Provincial We are, Sir, Yours obediently, one. John Edmond J. Manning A. Mackinlay D. M. Spedding G. Perriman W, H. M ‘Keay A. T. Dunning Francis G. Laing T. Beveridge D. Hughes John IN. Merry Walter Adams Joseph Farra James D. Hutton Wm. Roberts S. H, Trevena Richd. Paniel George Flson W. Sullivan Alex. Thomson A. C, Josling John Brown J. Watson Alex. Wood Hugh Fraser And 63 others. TO MESSRS EDMOND, MANNING, and the other Gentlemen who have signed the Requisition. GENTLEMEN,— On receipt of your flattering requisition, I at once decided on placing my services at your disposal. My political views are in favor of the progressive policy initiated by Mr Vogel; and should 1 be returned as one of your Representatives for the City, it will receive my undivided support. I wUI take an early opportunity of placing my views more fully before you. I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, E. ROSSBOTHAM. 2nd June, 1873. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF DUNEDIN. GENTLEMEN,— I have the honor to intimate that it is my intention to offer myself as a Candidate to represent you in the next Provincial Council. I regret that my unavoidable absence (attending the Court of Appeal at Wellington) will prevent my addressing you in person prior to the day of polling ; but I trust my actions while representing you in a former Provincial Council, with the further assurance that, if returned, I will act with the party in the new Council who desire to assist the Superintendent in giving effect to those measures indicated in hia Address to the late Council, and which 1 believe to be for the benefit of the City and Province, will secure your support. And I will do all in my power to prevent any waste ®f time and expenditure of money in discussing constitutional or other questions with which the Council has not the power to deal.
Leaving myself entirely in your hands, I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, B. C. H AGO ITT, PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTION. IMMEDIATELY alter Mr Davie’s meetiug on the 2nd inst., the following gentlemen volunteered their services as a Committee to canvass the Water of Leith district in his favor : Messrs John Barnes Messrs P. Gibson John Marshall M'Laren Simon Hanlan Thomas Yates J. B. Hale George Keith E. M‘Skimming Eoberfe M'Konzie Henry Hogg D. Simpson John Sibb S. W. Clark John Buck, J. Fogel W. Wright Job Wain, sen, Alex. Said John Collie J. W. Bennett F. Humffray Jaa. Whitelaw R. Roberts J. W. Waugh John Matthews John White A. Walker J. M'Dougall
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Evening Star, Issue 3210, 4 June 1873, Page 3
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