1 o the Electors of the Christchurch Country District. Gkntixmkn, I AVAIL myself ol this the Inst opportunity previous to the coming election on which I can address you through the columns of the press to return yon my sincere thanks for the numerous promises ot support which have been tendered to me, aud which are more than sufficient to ensure my return. I think it my duty however to warn you against an attempt to catch tbe votes of unwary electors by means of voting-papers in which the names of two candidates are printed, aud to make those electors believe that if they vote for Mr. Ollivier they must also vote for Mr. Brittin, or vice rerat. I trust you will beware of this irao, and that whatever your opinions may be, you will use a voting-paper on which one name oniv is printed, aud assert your right to choose for yourselves the second" name which shall ultimately he inserted »n it. I urn, srenilemen, Your obedient Servant, Jons Hall. Christchurch, Hth December, 1555. To the Electors of the iCkristchurch Country District. Gextlemex, Mr Hall has thought proper to attack me upon a point which impugns my veracity, and has chosen to publish these statements to serve his personal ends rather than abide an interview, as he engaged to do, with the parties in my presence. First Mr. Moore asserts that X made, the charge imputed to rn<*, I positively deny it. Mr. Moore in.the first instance announced to me his intention to support Mr. Hall in conjunction with myself, and said that sis vote for me would only be given in the event of Mr, Hall being secure. If I took the lead in the polling he and his friends would then support and plump for Mr. Hall. Not one word of the kind spoken of fell from me in reference to Mr. Hall or Mr. Wakefield/— Mr. Wilsou's letter conies next. I met .Mr. Wilson on the 18th October and informed him I had consented to come forward as a candidate. Mr. Wilson speaks positively of my allusions to Mr. Hall : I may have spoken of the necessity for strengthening Canterbury influence, but if I did so, Mr. Hall was not then a candidate, nor did he become so until a fortnight afterwards when he met the electors at Kaiapoi on Saturday evening, the Ist Nov. Mr. Wilson's statement at best therefore is only a violation of that confidence which ought to exist between men on occasions of private conversation. It is hardly credible that I would permit unreproved ihe adoption of the language which Mr. Wilson admits he made use of (but which I do not) in reference fo my friend Mr. 'Brittin. The public will judge for themselves how much reliance may be placed on his previous statements. Then we have Dr. Barker's assertion— equally at variance with tlie real facts. Dr. Barker met me on my return from Kaiapoi and Papanui. and thought proper to lecture me upon my coalition with "Mr. Btittin. and what he called the Nobbier Party. He urged me to commit a breach of faith by deserting that gentleman's interest and expatiated upon Mr. Hail's sup.-rior qualifi- • cations. He added that he had promised to vote for tne and should of course do so. It is ■only another instance of that conglomeration of ideas which we have already witnessed and somewhat painfully upon other occasions. I repeat that sine*- Mr. Hall's avowal that lie was a candidate, not one word has fallen from me in the course of my canvass that could in any way he construed into a personal attack upon his character as a public m.'-ii. You tviil judge therefore for votir-f-eiven in the case before you. You will not fail to see the object of this publication. I look to yon gentlemen to furnish them with your answers to this unmanly attack
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Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 327, 19 December 1855, Page 6
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655Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 327, 19 December 1855, Page 6
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