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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1009, 8 December 1881, Page 3

FELLOW ELECTORS I TF you desire a Member to represent you in the Assembly, who will support the present Ministry, and who will gain their support in return, do not throw your chances away by— SPLITTING VOTES, And so allowing an avowed opponent to the Government to slip in. By uniting your votes you will be studying your own best interests. There are three candidates ■who are in favor of Ministers and their measures ; by dividing your votes — some of them being given to one candidate, and some to another—you will certainly fail to return any one of them. Therefore vote for— The Strongest Man, One who, if returned, will be the most influential in the House, and who will not fail to show that he is as sincere and as honest in your services as he will be devoted to the true interests of the district. Therefore— Vote for Locke. VOTE STRAIGHT FOR LOCKE, AND SEND HIM TO THE TOP OF THE POLL. Don’t allow a bitter opponent to Ministers TO SLIP IN THROUGH WANT OF UNION AMONG YOURSELVES. 255 “ELECTORS, VOTE FOR LOCKE. ■DECAUSE he is a PRACTICAL MAN, and his interests are bound up with yours. HE has no fads, nor land-leaguing tendencies ; he is unquestionably straightforward and as a business man has been successful in his own concerns, thereby proving that he is a man who will equally as well attend to your interests. HE is a supporter of the HALL Ministry, the only Ministry which has honestly and consistently endeavored to effect reform, even at the expense of their popularity. Undoubtedly they will be returned with an increased majority, and it will therefore illbecome us to give them a slap in the face by returning an Opposition candidate, who whatever may be his qualifications, is at enmity with the only Government which has, without solicitation on the part of our late Representative, placed sums on the estimates for the opening up of our district, and expressed themselves (as will be seen by Hansard) in favor of the construction of a Breakwater at the Colonial expense, thus relieving preperty-owners of the rating which would have been inflicted on them had the Gisborne Harbor Bill been carried.

HE holds out no promises other than those which he has the ability and the willingness to fulfil, and from first to last he has conducted the electioneering campaign in an honorable way, giving a hearing to his opponent, and endeavoring to convince them by arguments based on reason, and not by the noise and clamor which invariably meet any person who has the hardihood to oppose the views of the GREY Candidate. 256 JMPOUNDED AT GISBORNE By the Ranger, Dec. 4th, 1881. 1 Bay Gelding, branded HP (conjoined) off shoulder. Will be sold at the pound yard on Dec. 19th 1881, unless redeemed. 254 R. WILSON, Poundkeeper. LONDON & LANCASHIRE EIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established in the Colonies, 1862. Capital, £1,852,000 ; Reserve Fund, £253,729. POVERTY BAY DISTRICT. THE undersigned having been appointed Agent for this Company, is prepared to receive proposals for all descriptions of Insurances, at lowest rates. JOHN COLEMAN, 232 Gladstone Road. [A Card.] MR. W. HYDES (late Musical Director of the Lydia Howards Company) begs to notify that lie is prepared to give lessons in Music on the Pianoforte. STANDARD OFFICE. Nov. 28, 1881. 228 Argyll Billiard. Rooms. kJ J. COHEN (late Chief Waiter at the Cs® Masonic Hotel) having taken the above Billiard Rooms, would request his friends and the public to accord him their patronage. Nothing will be lacking to make this the most attractive Billiard Room in the town. 231