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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 584, 9 June 1858, Page 7

CORSAIR. ALL accounts against this vessel are requested to be furnished to the undersigned for liquidation, previous to her departure on her whaling voyage. J. T. PEACOCK & Co. Lyttelton, May 25,1858. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE RAKAIA DISTRICT. C\ ENTLEMEIJ,—The lamented death. \JT of Mr. Haslewood has caused a vacancy in the Representation of your District in the Provincial Council. I beg to offer myself to you as a candidate for your suffrages at the election which has thus been rendered necessary. .My residence amongst you, and the fact that I am engaged in the same pastoral pursuits as yourselves, will of itself be an assurance to you that I should, if elected, give an active attention to the' requirements of the district, and that you would always find me a zealous promoter of our common interests. I trust also, that ithe insight into official matters, which as clerk to the last Council I could not fail to obtain, will have served as a training to rendemore efficient the services which it is my am bition to place at your disposal. I have the honor to remain, gentlemen, ; Your obedient servant, GEORGE A. E. ROSS. Waireka, Rakaia District, June 2,1858. TO.BE SOLD, A valuable Fifty Acre Section, fronting , on the Christchurcb Town Reserve, with House, Out-buildings, &c. The whole sretion is fenced and under cultivation. The growing crop may be taken at a valuation, ALSO, The lease of 24 acres of excellent land adjoining the above. This land is securely fenced, and is under crop. For particulars apply to Mr. Alpobt, Lyttelton, and to Mr. Hail, or Mr. J. T. Bbown, Christchurch. ON 'SALE. 2Hobart Town built Boats One a Whale Boat The other a Gig. Apply to MILES KINGTON & CO., Lyttelton. NOTICE. MES. TWININQ begs to announce that, having taken the house and premises formerly in the occupation of Mr. Sewell, she is now prepared to accommodate several families or single gentlemen with furnished apartments, and with board if required. N;B.—-Stabling attached. London street, October 6th, 1857. TO RUNHOLDERS. A person having a small flock of sheep is desirous of taking charge of a j run, where he can depasture his own flock in common with that of the owners, and to reside entirely upon the run for the term to be agreed upon. Apply by letter A. Z., " Lyttelton Times" Office. ALL parties having claims upon the undersigned are hereby requested to send in their accounts, on or before the Ist DAY OF JULY NEXT, addressed, REV. CHAS. MACKIE, i Stricklandsj near Christchurch. NOTICE. AKAROA: PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY TO WIT. WHEREAS a Writ under the hand of William Seffcon Moorhouse, Esq., Superintendent of the said Province, bearing date the eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, hath been directed to me, John Watson, Esq., as Returning Officer for the Akaroa District, in the said Province, requiring and commanding me to cause to be elected by and from the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and form by law prescribed, one person to serve as a member of of the Provincial Council for the Akaroa District, in place of Thomas Smith Duncan, Esq., resigned. Now, therefore, I, the said John Watson^ Esq., Returning Officer for the Akaroa District, do hereby, in pursuance of the said recited Writ, give notice that a public meeting of the electors of the Akaroa District will be holden in the Court House, in the Town of Akaroa, on THURSDAY, the tenth day of June next, at noon, for the purpose of nominating one person to serve as a member of the Provincial Council, for the Akaroa District, and in the event of a poll being demanded for the candidotes or any of them, such polling shall take place on Friday, the eleventh day of June next, in the Court House at Akaroa, in the School House at Pigeon Bay, and in the School House at Okain's Bay. The voting to commence at any time after nine o'clock, a.m. of the said day, and to close i at four o'clock p.m., of the said day. I JOHN WATSON, Returning Officer. Akaroa, May 13, 185 S.