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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 776, 15 December 1876, Page 2

PLUMS ! PLUMS ! I PLUMS ! I ! LOQUATS I LOQUATS 11 LOQUATS I! I FOR THE MILLION AND AT MILLION PRICES. JUST to hand, ex Arawata, from the celebrated Lucerne Cardens, Victoria, a choice consignment of Plums, Loquats, &c, &c. J. P. OLIVER & CO, Fruit Merchants, 4471 Opposite Bank of New Zealand. AKAROA REGATTA. ~ GRAND HOLIDAY EXCURSION. steamship HAWBA, Captain Wheeler, Will make a Special Excursion on ANNIVERSARY DAY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, Leaving Lyttelton on arrival of the 6.50 a.m, train from Christchurch, and returning from Akaroa in time to reach Lyttelton before the departure of the 11.30 p.m. train. Return Fares from Lyttelton— FIFTEEN SHILLINGS. For passage, apply to MILES, HASBAL & CO., Agents, Lyttelton and Christchurch. N.B.—ln the event of there being more passengers than the Hawea is licensed to carry, the s.s. Wellington will follow TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH. ENTLEMEN, —I had wished to abstain VJT from any controversy whatever in the forthcoming Election of Mayor, but I find on perusal of Mr Ick’s address to you there are certain remarks which I cannot pass unnoticed. Mr Ick claims your support on account of his long services in the Council, and also on the Works Committee. I may state that I also have the privilege of claiming your support upon the same grounds, as by the resignation of Mr Jenkins in the Council, through illness, immediately after his election, I was elected to fill his seat, which accordingly places my position therefore in the Council on a par with Mr Ick’s. I was also appointed a member of the Works Committee at the same time as Mr Ick, and have continued so until the last election of Councillors, when the several committees were reformed, and upon retiring was duly elected Chairman of the Sanitary Committee Mr Ick thinks it is unseemly for a Candidate aspiring to the office of Mayor to canvass for votes. I quite agree with him ; yet at the time that Mr Ick exacted a promise from me with himself not to canvas, Mr Ryan was being paid £1 per day for canvassing the City in his interests. I should not have referred to this had not the remarks in Mr Ick’s address appeared to apply so directly to me I may say, that to the present time I challenge any person to say that I have either asked for a vote or support. Now, Gentlemen, if Mr Ick thought proper to waive his claim last year (either through fear or favor), I fail to see the justice of asking me to stand aside, as now I stand in my right and proper position, and therefore I now solicit your support. I regret exceedingly that Mr Ick has referred to the present members of the Council in such terms, whereby he assumes if I were elected they would cause my position to be uncomfortable. However, my past experience in connection with those gentlemen gives me full confidence that, should I be elected, they will support a Mayor elected by the citizens. THE Union Steamship Company’s splendid I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, aei vctuu, JAMES GAPES. December 15th, 1876. 4474