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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 758, 20 July 1853, Page 2

TO MR. ROBERT MITCHELL. TTTE, the undersigned Electors of the IT Citv of Auckland, request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination as one of the Representatives for the City, at the approaching Election for Provincial Councillors. Our long knowledge of your stnct business habits, and indefatigable industry, in our opinion render you every way qualified to fulfil the duties thereof with credit to yourself, and great benefit to the community. Auckland, 9lh July, 1853. Gentlemen, —Nothing was further from my intention than becoming a Candidate for a seat in the Provincial Council, and your numerously signed Requisition lias taken me by surprise. Although my business will but ill afford the lime which must be devoted to the public duties you wish me to undertake, yet, having been requested by so large a body of Electors, I cannot do otherwise than tender my humble services; with a promise, should 1 be elected, that these shall bo conscientiously devoted to the best interests of the Colony. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Robert Mitchell. To the Gentlemen who signed the Requisition. TO WALTER BRODIE, Esq. Auckland, July Bth, 1853. SIR —As your long residence in New Zealand, and consequent knowledge of the requirements of the Colony, well befits you to lake a part in the business of the Provini cial Council, about to sit, we beg you will allow yoursclflo be put in nomination as a Candidate for the Suburbs of Auckland, as we believe our interests will be in safe keeping in your hands. We arc, Sir, Your obedient Servants, James Robertson, Robert Mitchell, Benj. Evans Turner, Win. Bacon, Edmund Hynes, James Allison, Wm. Boyd, Wm. Bence, Thomas Finlay, John Syms, Edward Lewis, Chas. Lee, .1. f). Rich, Wm. Miller, Richd. Clark, Henry Clark, Geo. Steedon, Wm. Tutly, George Wood, Alex. Gentles. Auckland, July Mill, 1853. Gentlemen, —I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Requisition, and have much pleasure in accepting your invitation in coming forward as a Candidate for the Representation of the Suburban District in the Auckland Provincial Council. 1 am not a lately-arrived resident in this Province, as you are well aware, having been here since 1839.' It remains with yourselves, Gentlemen, to place me in the situation yon wish me to fill; should you succeed, which I have no doubt will be the case, you may rely upon my performing those duties which a member of the Division 1 hope to represent isbonnd to perform, independent of all parly influence and party feeling. Hoping the support of every unbiassed and uninfluenced Voter, I remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, Walter Buodie. To the Gentlemen signing the above Requisition. TO THE ELECTORS OF HIE SOUTHERN DIVISION. / 1 ENTLEMEN, —Having been called upon at a Public Meeting of the Electors, which assembled at Olahuhu on the lllh instant, I respectfully beg leave to offer myself as one of your Representatives in the Provincial Council. In soliciting your suffrages I have no private interests to serve; and, in the event of my having a scat in , Council, 1 would be disposed to give every measure that may be brought before that body due consideration, unbiassed by any party spirit whatever. I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, William Goodfellow. Otara, I2lh July, 1853.