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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 301, 19 September 1855, Page 2

To the Elector of the Christchurch Country District. Gentlemen, — SEVERAL Candidates having solicited your suffrages, I am unwilling to divide the I |seek to promote, and would therefore defer the honor of a personal application for your votes until a future occasion. I am, gentlemen, Youis very obediently, C* JE. Prichard. Election of Additional Member for the Provincial Council. Province of Nelson, New Zealand, to wit :— WHEREAS a writ under the hand of His Honor Edward William Stafford, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Nelson, bearing date the 30th day of last July, has been directed to John Poynter, Esq., Resident Magistrate and Principal Returning Officer for the Province of Nelson, requiring and commanding him to cause to be elected by and from amongst the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and form prescribed by law, an additional member to serve in the Provincial Council for the District of Amuri; NOW therefore, I, Edward Jollie, Esq., Deputy Returning Officer for the said district, do hereby in pursuance of the said writ appoint Monday, the Sth day of October next, at Twelve o'Clock at noon, at my bouse, Mount Parnassus, for the nomination of a member for the said district. In the event of a Poll being demanded, I hereby further appoint Tuesday, the 9th day of October next, for the Polling. The Polling to take place at Mount Parnassus, and to commence at ten o'clock in-the forenoon, and close at four o'clock in the afternoon ofthe same day. Edward Jollie, Deputy Returning Officer for the Amuri District. Notice to Newly-Arrived Immigrants, Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, August 28th, 1855 "IVTOTICE is Hereby Given, that if any -*-^ Immigrants who have given Promissory Notes in part payment of assisted passages to this Province, and of which payment will be required a year after the date of their landing, are willing to pay the whole or any part of their engagements before that time, they will be allowed a Discount as follows :— Within 3 months after landing, 10 per cent. Within 6 months after landing, 5 per cent. Payments to be made to tbe Provincial Treasurer, Christchurch. By His Honor's Command, Joseph Brittan, Provincial Secretary. PUBLIC KOTIGE, "TVTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN", that the -*-* Commissioner of Crown Lands is instructed to prepare Crown Grants for original Laud orders of the Canterbury Association, for which Conveyances have not been already made. Original Land orders are requested to be left at the Land Office by parties requiring such grants. William Guise Brittan, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Canterbury. Land Office, Christchurch, 16th May, 1855. Dissolution of Partnership. "T^TE HBKEBY GIVE NOTICE that the * * paituership hitherto existing between us, Charles Robert Blakiston, Basil William Motkk, and Phillip Lloyd Francis, trading under the style or firm of Blakiston & Co., merchants and commission agents, Lyttelton, New Zealand, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. All parties indebted to the late firm are requested lo pay their accounts to Augustus Blakiston, who is authorised to receive the same, and to discharge al) liabilities. Dated this lllh day of September, 1855. Charles Robert Blakiston, Basil William Muter, Phillip Lloyd Francis. Witnesses— H. J. Le Cren, merchant, Lyttelton, j Robert Waitt, merchant, Lyltelton.