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Kumara Times, Issue 2553, 8 November 1884, Page 2

ORDER. Hokitika, 4th November, 1844. The COMPANIES in the District will PARADE for INSPECTION and DRILL on MONDAY, the 10th NOVEMBER, at the YOUNTEER HALL, Greymouth, at 10 o’clock a.m. By order. W. A. SPENCE, Lieutenant and Instructor. MAYORAL ELECTION. TO D. HANNAN, Esq., Mayor of Kumara. Sir—We, the undersigned ratepayers of the Borough of Kumara, respectfully request you to consent to be put in nomination for the Mayoral election on Wednesday next, feeling assured that if you are elected the business of the Borough will be conducted with the same energy and economy as shown during your past year of office. We remain, sir, Yours, &c., Matthew Davidson, Frank Curry, Robert Harrison, John Denfield, Arthur Flaherty, George Ingall, John Schulstad, Michael Wall, Michael Dracatos, &c., &c., &c. November, 8, 1884. TO Messrs Matthew Davidson and the other Burgesses signing the requisition. Gentlemen—Although I am sensitive of the fact that this is an office that should not be monopolised, but one that should revert in rotation to other deserving persons ; still, in order that I may have a better opportunity to redeem some other pledges given by me last year, which were impracticable during the past, on this occasion, and for this term, I most respectfully accede to your request, and, if elected, I assure you that the general welfare of the Burgesses shad be my study. Thanking you for your expression of confidence, I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, DENIS HANNAN. Kumara, November 8, 1884. V. R. WESTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS. ARAHURA RIDING. I Alfred Frederic Fitzroy Etherj idge, Returning Officer for the County of Westland, do hereby give notice that in accordance with section 64, Part V., of “ The Counties Act, 1876,” WEDNESDAY, the 12th day of NOVEMBER, 1884, is the day appointed when the ELECTIONS shall take place. Therefore under Section 11, of “ The Regulation of Local Elections Act, 1876,” NOMINATIONS signed by Two Electors and the Candidate will be received at the Court House, STAFFORD, addressed to the Returning Officer, up to noon on TUESDAY, the 4th day of NOVEMBER, 1884, for the return of THREE CANDIDATES to represent the ARAHURA HIDING. A. F. F. ETHERIDGE, Returning Officer. October 28, 1884. RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI. By an order in Council dated 28th October, 1884, the rates of postage on correspondence transmitted via Suez and Brindisi are in future to be as follow ; 1. That, on and after the fifteenth day of November next, the rate of postage to be paid on all letters, book-packets, and newspapers transmitted from New Zealand to any place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by way of Suez and Brindisi shall be and the same is hereby fixed as herein set forth, that is to say— On all letters, one shilling per halfounce or fraction of half an ounce ; On all book-packets and parcels, threepence for every two ounces or fraction of two ounces ; On all newspapers, twopence each. The said postage shall, in all such cases, be prepaid in Now Zealand by postagestamps, to be affixed upon the covers of the letters, book packets, or newspapers so sent. 2. That on all correspondence received in New Zealand in mails despatched from the United Kingdom on and after the date aforesaid, and which has not been prepaid in postage-stamps at the foregoing rates, a surcharge equal to the equivalent