To the Electors of the Christchurch Country District. Gentlemen, — ABOUT five months have now elapsed since 1 first addressed you soliciti g your votes for theseat rendered vacant in the General assembly by the resignation of the Hoiiorah'e James Smart Wortley. His Excellency the Governor has, however, since then dissolved that body. I would therefore renew my address by soliciting your suffrages for a seat in the General Assembly. In my former address I stated that at a future opportunity 1 hoped to give you every satisfactory assurance. I have accordingly "met you by appointment at different places in the District upon five various occasions, and have availed myself of those opportunities of fully explaining to you my views and sentiments upon the several political questions coming within the legislative actum of the General Assembly. It is therefore quite unnecessary for me again to enter into and enlarge upon those si-jLy^cts. I would, however, take this opportuuTty of informing such of the electors as I have not hitherto personally waited upon, that it is my intention to do so, if possible, before ihe day of election. Neither can I permit this opportunity |to pass without informing such of the electors as have already done me the honor to pledge themselves to support me, 'hat my return is certain if they fail not to be at the poll early on Thursday, the 20th day of December. I remain, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, DINGLET ASKHAM BrITTIN. To the Electors of the Christchurch Country District. Gentlemen, — You are called upon, by His Excellency the Governor, to elect two representatives to the General Assembly. At the earnest request of a large number of the electors of this district, I am induced to offer myself to jour notice, as a candidate for one of the vacant seats. The attention which I have given to my duties, as one of your representatives in the Provincial Council, has afforded yon such an outline of my political principles, that it is unnecessary for me to address you at any length upon the subject. The present position of colonial a flairs is.One of great consequence to the Provinces, and, as questions of serious importance will doubtless be immediately brought under the notice of the Assembly,it is es-eiuial that your election should fall upon those who possess actite business habits and pvactical experience. Should I have the honor to be elected, I shall be as anxious as ever to promote and watch over your interests. The most prominent questions which are now agitating the public mind, a.c those which have reference to the adjustment of the Provincial Revenues ; the removal of the seat of Government fiom Auckland to a more convenient and more central spot; the delegation to the Provinces of the management of their own Waste Lands; the establishment of Provincial Courts of Justice, Sec. Sec, to these, and indeed to all oiher topics which concern the welfare of the Province, f shall devoie my earnest attention, and I shall study, by a firm adherence to public principle and hy a faithful and independent discharge of the trust committed to me, to win your future confidence and approval. ll have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, John Ollivieb. Morton Farm, Lower Lincoln Iload. A TO JOHN HALL, Esq., j.p., m.p.c. Sir, —We, the undersigned, request you to allow you-self to be put in nomination as a candidate for the representation of tbe Christchurch Country District in the General Assembly of New Zealand. We are not unconscious of the sacrifice of your private interesis and convenience which doing so may occasion you, but we trust that that objection may not bean insuperable one. The slake you have in this Province, and your consequent interest in its progress and prosperity, the activity and ability yon have shown in its politics, convince u«* that in confiding to you ihe representation of Canterbury in the General Assembly, we could not place i in better bands. Should^ou kindly accede to this request w-
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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 322, 1 December 1855, Page 4
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