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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 246, 10 March 1855, Page 2

will be held at Akaroa;in the Police office, on Friday, the 16th day of March, at noon, for the ; purpose' of nominating Two Persons to servers members of the Provincial Council for the district of Akaroa, and in the ieyent of a poll being demanded for the candidates, or either of them, such polling shall; take -place! oil Saturday, the 17th day of March in the Police Office at Akaroa. The voting to commence at any time after nine o'clock, a.m., and to close at 4 o'clock, p.m., of the same day. John Watson, -'■ , ,v Returning-Officer. Resident Magistrate's Court, Akaroa, 19th February, 1855. • . To the Electors of the Christchurch Country ; V ■■ - District. -. Gentlemen, —:;■;-. ""-'^>-...;-'-: I AM induced at the suggestion of several friends to offer myself as a Candidate for a seat in the Provincial Council in consequence of the proposed enlargement of that body. I do so with much diffidence and with a perfect, willingness to retire should any gentlemen of superior pretensions present themselves. If nbtjand if you should think proper to elect me, lean promise you that asl have no private interest to serve, I shall carry into the Council a perfect independence and a determination to support such measures, and such measures only, as I conscientiously believe will be for the benefit of pur common country, I am, Gentlemen, • Your obedient servant. Daniel Inwood. To the Electors ofthe Christchurch Country District. •■•.'.':"" ■ ■:■■'• Gentlemen,..:':,." -.. ;''>" AT the request of several of your number, ''-£*-.'••'.1 beg to offer myself as a Candidate for ■ the honor of representing you inthe ProvincialCouncil. •.-.' I have come to this resolution after much hesitation, being aware that in comparison with many others; I can offer but few claims on your suffrages. The urgent solicitations which have been made to me, however, and the offers of sup- ■ port which I have received, have overcome the reluctance I felt to the adoption of a course ♦ which I was at first inclined to consider pre-; sumptuous. ' ;-.,;.;'. Should you do me the honor to return me as one of your representatives, I shall give my unremitting attention" to the duties devolving upon, me, supporting totlieutmosfr of my such 'measure's--as I conceive likely to be conducive to the .interests of the colonists at large, and giving my unswerving opposition to those which -appear to have an opposite tendency. ■ I trust I shall be able before the day of election, to visit the greater part of the District for the purpose of giviug such explanations as you may require, relative to my views on the more important subjects likely to come before the Council. ' I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Wm. Thomson. Hemingford, Governor's Bay, y 20th Feb., 1854. / To the Electors of the Christchurch Country District. Gentlemen, — HIS Excei*__nct the Officer Administering the Government having sanctioned the Provincial Council Extension Ordinance, it will shortly become your duty to elect Four additional Members to represent your interests.. In deference to the request of several electors, I ha^e the honor to offer myself to your notice as a Candidate for a seat in the Provincial Council upon this occasion. In the brief limits of an address you will not expect me to enter into a general explanation of my principles; but if lam considered worthy of becoming one of your representatives, I shall endeavour, to the best of my ability, to promote your interests by a faithful and independent discharge of the trust you will confide to me. I should advocate the utmost economy in the public expenditure consistent with the efficiency of the several departments of the Provincial Government, to. which I should cheerfully extend my support, if the measures it proposed were calculated to promote the welfare of the settlement. In reference to the question which is now prominently before the public, (I mean.the impropriation of the Was'e Luids,) I should