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Kumara Times, Issue 2555, 12 November 1884, Page 2

GREY COUNTY ELECTION. HOHONU RIDING. MR. J AS. NICHOLAS will address the ELECTORS at WESTBROOK, Mr. Foley's Hotel, on FRIDAY, the 14th inst., at 8 p.m. GREENSTONE, on SATURDAY, 15th inst., at 8 p.m. 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 rae 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 sha'l 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. BALL! BALL! BALL! MR. and MRS. ANDERSON invite their friends and the public generally to their usual COUNTY ELECTION BALL, Which will be held on WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT. Dancing will commence at 8.30 p.m. A full Band and efficient M.C. are engaged. JL CLUB will hold their weekly DANCE on WEDNESDAY EVENING, in the Empire Rooms, Dillman's Town. Admission, 2s. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. AN NEW YEAR'S NIGHT, Ist \J January, 18S5, the Kumara AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB will perform the grand five-act drama THE GREEN BUSHES, For the 13'-ueJit of the Kumara Literary Institution, l'uriiciil.-iis will be given in a future advertisement.. Yl R. M. .11 A N N AN, ili- U.UI MISTER, SOLICITOR, AX! I CONVEYANCER, T.UNI.M StIIKKI', G'jtKYMOUTJI, May !>o. consulted a; the Post. Office Hotel, Kumara on the evenings preceding the sittings of the Resident, Magistrate's and Warden's Courts. 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 sayOn 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 New Zealand by postagestamps, to be affixed upon the covers of