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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 521, 31 October 1857, Page 7

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE ASHLEY DISTRICT. Z^IENTLEMEN,— The time is now apV_J proaching when you will be called upon to elect one member to serve in the Provincial Council. I beg' to solicit your suffrages at the ensuing election. 1 have hitherto abstained from addressing you, in the hope that some person more able to attend to your interests, and, perhaps, more fully possessing your" confidence, would pi'esent himself to your notice, but as yet I am not aware of any other candidate being in the field. I have, therefore, at the request of several friends, felt it my duty to ask your support; Should you do me the honor to elect me, I shall endeavour faithfully to discharge the duties of your representative. I beg to remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, ROBERT L. HIGGINS. TO THE ELECTORS OP "THE HEATHCOTE DISTRICT. r^ENTLEMEN,— I beg to announce myself as a candidate to represent you in the Provincial Council. Having had the honour of a seat in that Council since the extension of its numbers, as one of the members for the Christchurch Country District, I may be permitted to refer you to my services during the whole of that time, as the best testimony to my qualifications for the office. My attendance in the Council and on committees, and my recorded votes will satisfy you that I have never shrunk from at least the attempt faithfully to discharge my duties, and they will also convince you that I have never absented myself from my place in the Council, in order to evade recording my vote upon any measure which carried with it a clear exposition of my opinion. Should I have the honor to be re-elected, I promise you that I will endeavour to pursue the same independent course; and that I will to the best of my ability at all times zealously guard your interests. As it is not my intention to make a personal canvass, I beg to remind you that the nomination is fixed for the sth November, at Christchurch Quay, and the polling for the day after (the 6th) at the same place, and at Mr. Archer's on the Lower Lincoln Road. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, J. OLLIVIER. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE AVON DISTRICT. HAVING represented the Christchurch Country District in the Provincial Council from the first election of that body, I now offer myself as a candidate to represent you in the next Council, as I feel that I am more peculiarly connected with the electors of the Avon District than with any other portion of my former constituency. In requesting your support upon the present occasion, I can only say that, should you do me the honor to elect me, I shall, as I have hitherto done, endeavour to promote the interests of this district as well as of the Province at large. My public conduct will be influenced now as formerly by a conviction that the duties of a Member of the Provincial Council consist in promoting practical improvements rather than in discussing political theories. I may refer to the discharge of my duties as Speaker of the late Council as a guarantee for due attention to the business which may be entrusted to me as your representative. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, CHARLES BOWEN. NOTICE. PBOYINCE OF CAKTEEBTJEY TO WIT. AKAROA DISTRICT. "TYTHEREAS a Writ under the hand of \\ " Thomas Gore Browne, Esq., Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, &c, &c, bearing date the Fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Seven.hath been directed to me, John Watson, as Returning Officer of the Akaroa District, requiring and commanding me to cause to he elected by the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner fand form by law prescribed, three legally qualified persons to serve as Members of°the Provincial Council for the said Akaroa District : Now, therefore, I, the said John Watson, Returning Officer for the said Akaroa District, do hereby, in pursuance of the said recited Writ, give notice that a Public Meeting of the electors of the said Akaroa District will be holden at the Court House, Akaroa, on Monday, the 2nd day of November next, at noon, for the purpose of nominating three persons to .serve as Members of the Provincial Council for the said Akaroa District; and in the event of a poll being demanded for the Candidates or any of them, such polling shall take place on Thursday, the sth day of November next, at the Court House, at Akaroa; at the School House, Pigeon Bay; and at Mr. Tuson's House, Okain's Bay. The voting to commence at any time after 9 o'clock, a.m. of the said sth day of November, and to close at 4 o'clock, p.m. of the same day. JOHN WATSON, Returning Officer. Akaroa, Septemberl7th, 1857. '