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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1491, 26 November 1878, Page 3

TO HENRY THOMSON, Esq, MAYOR OF CHRISTCHURCH. DEAR SIR, —We, the undersigned Bur' gesses of the city of Christchurch, fully appreciating the thoroughly independent and business-like manner in which you have discharged the duties of the Mayoralty during the current year, hereby request that you will permit yourself to be nominated for the office for the ensuing term, and pledge ourselves heartily to support your candidature. Yours, &c,, (Signed) ANDREW DUNCAN. P. CUNNINGHAM; A. W. BICKERTON. J. D. MACPHERSON. And 157 others. To Messrs A. Duncan, R. Cunningham, A,' W. Bickerton, J. D. Macpherson, and 157 other gentlemen signing the requisition. Gentlemen— l thank you most heartily for the very influentially-signed requisition this day placed in my hands, asking me to allow myself to be nominated for the office of Mayor, and for the very complimentary terms you have been pleased to use in referring to the manner in which I have discharged the duties of the Mayoralty during the current year. It gives me great pleasure to accede to your request, and I now place myself in the hands of my fellow-citizens for re-election. During my term of office I found the duties of the Mayoralty, combined with those of Chairman of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, so onerous as to requite for their proper discharge very much more time than anyone actively engaged in business could possibly spare ; but I am now in a position which will enable me to devote the whole of my time, if necessary, to the requirements of the office, and on that account feel more confidence in again soliciting the votes of the electors. It is quite true that I cannot point to either lamp or fountain as a memorial of my zeal on behalf of the city’s interests, yet I may fairly claim the greatest share of the credit in securing the 800 acres reserve at the Sandhills, the revenue from which, in a few years, wdll greatly lighten the burdens of the ratepayers. The improvements in Cathedral square, as originally suggested by me, have been carried out, and although opposed at first, are now universally approved. I am quite alive to the absolute necessity for securing an ample and permanent supply of water for the citv, and am prepared to devote both time and energy to the attainment of that object. The erection of new Municipal Offices and Town Hall is also a necessity, and will have my best support. With the year's experience I have had of the duties of the office, and encouraged by the flattering terms in which you have referred to my discharge of them, I hope, should you do me the honor of re-electing me, to be able still more efficiently to fill the position of your Chief Magistrate; and, having no private interests to serve, will continue in the future, as I always have done in the past, to devote my beat energies to the advancement of our prosperous and rising city, and the 'conservation of the interests of the ratepayers. I have the honor to bo, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, H. Thomson, Christchurch, 14th November, 1878. 3016

THE COLONIAL 3 Insurance Company OF NEW ZEALAND, EIRE AND MARINE. CAPITAL: Two Millions Sterling CHIEF OFFICES, WELLINGTON. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman : The Hon. 0. J. Pharazyn, M.L.0., Chairman Local Board Australian Mutua Provident Society. Vice-Chairman : The Hon. Randall Johnson, M.L.0., Managing Director Northern Land and Loan Company. Jacob Joseph, Esq., Merchant. A. de B. Brandon, Esq., M.H.R., Local Director Australian Mutual Providen' Society. E. W. Mills, Merchant. The Hon. M. S. Grace, M.L.0., Loca Director Australian Mutual Proriden Society. Walter J, Nathan, Esq., Merchant Solicitors : Messrs Brandon and Son, Wellington, General Manages : Geo. S. Graham, Esq. Bankers: The Bank of Now Zealand. This Company offer to Insurers the following combined advantages:— «»s—“ Absolute Security’’ Participation in the Profits upon an equal basil alike for small and largo insurers Prompt and Liberal Settlement of Claims Lowest Current Rates Insurances of Every Description effected. THE MUTUAL"PRINCIPLE The Company, having reserved 100,000 Shares of £lO each (half the capital), ton shillings payable thereon, to bo allotted from time to time to actual insurers only in proportion to the amount of Insurance Premiums paid, offers to the public generally! and particularly to small insurers, the twofold advantage, which no other company in New Zealand possesses, that of absolute security against loss, combined with participation in the profits of one of the safest and most lucrative kinds of investment. An insurer with this Company, exercising his optional privilege and becoming a shareholder, in effect reduces the rate charged on HIS OWN PROPERTY in proportion to the amount of premium he pays and the influence lie exerts to induce others to insure with the Company. NOTICE TO INSURERS. At the expiration of the first financia period of the Company, the Directors wil offer to persons who may have previously insured the right of taking up at. par (viz., on payment of the called-up capital only, which will not exceed 10s per share) one op thß RESERVED SHARES POR EVERY £1 OP INSURANCE PREMIUM PAID HY THEM whothel for Fire or Marine risks. The Company is now prepared to undertake FIRE and MARINE RISKS at the LOWEST CURRENT RATES at the Temporary Offices, HEREFORD STREET, Next the Union Bank. FREDK. E. A. GRAHAM, 425 Manager for Canterbury •