TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
/^j_ENTLEMEN,—Mr. FitzGebald i \JT haying announced his intention of ! resigning the office of Superintendent of this Province, I have the honour to state, that I shall present myself to you as a Candidate for i when the period of Election shall arrive. It may perhaps be thought*presumptuous in me to take this step without haying had the way prepared by the customary requisition. But the fact that I should be a candidate, in case Mr. FitzGerald did not desire again to be elected, has been so long and so generally known, that ft would have been affectation in me to have waited for one. I have thought it the less necessary too, because the means by which signatures to such documents are now too often obtained have,tended to invest them with almost as much of disrepute as credit;. At all events they have deprived them of much of that value in public estimation which such testimonials once possessed. I feel it to be my duty, Gentlemen, to state
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 473, 16 May 1857, Page 3
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176TO THE ELECTORS OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY. Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 473, 16 May 1857, Page 3
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