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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1200, 14 November 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

Gisborne, 24tchOtober, 1882. TO HENRY LEWIS, Esq. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, Electors of the Borough of Gisborne, respectfully request you to allow yourself to be nominated for the Office of M \ YOR for the ensuing term. Should you accede to our request we pledge ourselves to use our best endeavours to secure your return. We remain, etc., E. P. Joyce, T. J. Dickson, Jas. Browne, J. Mogridge, Kennedy & Bennett, R. Hill Fisher, A. McDonald, W. P. Finneran, T. W. Porter, C. A. Tabuteau, A. Allauach, S. M. Wilson, S. Stevenson, Henry McKay, J. H. Aislabie, D. Murchie, Thomas Chrisp, T. G. Murray, G. Houghton, D. Ponsford, W. Tattley, W. Sharratt, Richard Bryne, W. Judd, D. M. On-, W. T. File, O. Veale, W. Hall, James Hird, James Craig, Henry Cannon, James Rosie, W. Searle, H. Pollen, D. E. Smith, I. C. Taylor, J. W. Wade, J. Erskine, H. Fraser, A. J. Thomas, C. A. Delatour, W. Knights, llO TO THE GENTLEMEN SIGNING THE ABOVE REQUISITION. I HA VE much pleasure in acceding to your request in allowing myself to be nominated for the office of Mayor for the ensuing term. In doing so I feel that my actions in the Borough Council have met with your approval during the short time I have had the honor to represent your interests, and those of the whole of the Burgesses. In conclusion lean only say, that if I have the honor of being elected, I shall exercise my best abilities, and employ them in furthering the interests of the Borough,—l have the honor to be Gentlemen, Your Obedient Servant, HENRY LEWIS. Gisborne, 25th Oct. 1882. 113 £l,OOO. £l,OOO. A FORTUNE FOR ONE SHILLING. rriHE GREAT “BONANZA CON--L SULTATION On the CHAMPION STAKES, To be run on New Year’s Day, 1883. 50,000 SHARES AT Is. EACH. 136 New' Year’s Gifts, Value £2,500. First horse .. .. £l,OOO 142 prizes of £2O .. .£B4O Second horse .. 200 5 „ .£lO .. £5O Third horse .. .. 1001 10 „ £5 .. £. r 0 Starters divide .. 100 120 ~ £3 .. .£6O Non-starters divide 1001 Total .. £2,500 Twenty-one Tickets forwarded on receipt of One Pound. Not less than 5 Tickets sent to any single address. Shares sent by return post. Application for shares to be made by letter only, enclosing P. 0.0, Notes or Cheques. If coin is enclosed, please register letter. 3d extra for reply and result. Victorian stamps up to 9b. may be sent, if other colony stamps please add exchange at the rate of 2s. in the £. Exchange on cheques Is. Bank notes (except Victorian) 3d. Please enclose an addressed envelope, unstamped. Address—“BONANZA,” Care of J. THOMAS, 20 Swanson Street, Melbourne. In cases where a number of friends, or a club wish to become subscribers, let one of the number send for shares in his or her name only. Result of drawing will be advertised in “ Leader,” and jx>sted to subscribers immediately after drawing. If any of your numbers have drawn a horse or a prize, post us the ticket with your name and address, and the amount of prize will be mailed to you, less aur commission, 10 per cent. Drawing will take place on Dec. 28th, and will be conducted with the utmost fairness by a committee of shareholders. The promoters of the “ Bonanza” Consultation on the Melbourne Cup, 1882, desin: to express their warmest thanks to its friends and patrons for the prompt and spirited manner in which they subscribed for shares, and for the confidence reposed in our enterprise. We confidently believe that the “ Bonanza” Consultation owed much of its popularity to the fact of its being a novel idea as a sweep, more especially so, when by the simple investment of one shilling you become a shareholder in a company that gives you a chai ce of winning £l,OOO. Inorder to procure a share in any other large sweep you would have to part with £l, fora single chance while we, on tl»c other hand wjll give you 21 chances of winning £1,00(1:. for the same amount, hence our great advantage over others in the same line,of business. 142 Notice. TO OWNERS OF MARES VISITING FOUL FLAY. TN consequence of the scarcity of Grass at Waerenga-a-hika, we have decided on removing FOUL PLAY to TUTOKO, where he will Stand the remainder of the Season. BLOOMFIELD A WYLLIE.