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Southland Times, Issue 710, 16 August 1867, Page 3

Requisitions TO JOHN BLACKLOCK ESQ., WAIHOPAI. QIR, — We, the undersigned- Electors of the Waihopai District, feeling assured that your views on Proviacial politics are sound ' and progressive, especially in reference to the important questions of the improvement of roads, the immediate prosecution of Railways, and other public works, beg to request that you will allow yourself to be put in_ nomination as a member to represent us in the Provincial Council, and in the event if your doing so pledge you our support. Geo. Hately J. Martin , W. Jackson , Abram Watson John Watson John Taylor . Edwin Rutland * Wm. Pettigrew Thos. M. Macdonald . James Jamieson William Boyd William Russell Thomas Perkins * William M'Connell Andrew Gibson James Tannack F.H. Geisow John Coutts William Moffet R. B. Macgowan Peter M'Ewan John M'Leay TO MESSRS G. HATELY, J. MARTIN, and the other gentlemen signing the requisition. Gentlemen, — If I were to consult my inclinations I should retire into private life as was my intention originally on giving up business, but having been induced to enter into politics, and now got so far mixed up with the Railway question, on which the various constituencies are appealed to for decision, I cannot refuse your request. For your expression of confidence and the support you tendered I warmly thank you, and if your efforts on mv behalf be crowned with success, I will always, as heretofore, do my best to further the interests of the Province. Your's most obediently, JNO. BLACKLOCK. Wellesley, 13th August, 1867. Public Notices. NOTICE is hereby given, that there is Poison laid down on Wallacetown Plains. HUGH McLEAN. July 10th, 1867. T 0 LE T. A BUTCHER'S SHOP, in Harrisville, in* which a good business has been doing Apply " Times Office." TO LEND, Sums of £100 to £5000 on Freehold Secui-ity. Apply to DALRYMPLE, June., & CO., Dunedin. £10 REWARD. QTOLEN from my place, New River, about the J^ last week in June, Two Geese, and as I have lost both ducks and pigs in same manner the above reward will be paid on conviction of the thief. LEWIS ACKER. KEROSENE ! KEROSENE !! rnHE undersigned are selling best Kerosene at -*- 4s per gallon, by the case or tin. EKENSTEEN & HALL, Dee and Esk-street. LOST. ■■'■•■: LOST on Wednesday evening, somewhere between Harrisville and the Jetty, a Pocket Book, containing a sum of money, and severa letters, one unopened ; the finder will be suitably rewarded on returning it to J. WILD, Castlemaine Hotel. NOTICE. npHE undersigned having lost a Government X Acknowledgement for the sum of £43 10s, (Voucher No. 420) and has made application for payment thereof, notwithstanding, all persons are hereby cautioned from taking the same. HUGH M'LEAN. VOLUNTEER NOTCE. THE Services of the Invercargill Rifle Volunteers having been accepted, all members of the Corps are requested to attend at the Provincial Council Hall, on the evening of Thursday first, the 22nd inst., at 8 o'clock. : By order, JAMES jgjLKCTX -— -— * 1 " Chief Instructor, pro tern. Business.— Election of Officers, Band, &c. SWEEP ! SWEEP ! ! ALL orders for Sweeping Chimneys, Night Work, and for Firewood, left in the box adjoining Messrs Matheson and Cameron's, premises, Dee-street, will be promptly attended to by B. Evans. CAUTION. _______ VTOTICE is hereby given, that legal pro- \ ' ceedings will be taken against all persons found . cutting, removing, or otherwise injuring timber in any of the bushes on the property of John EUes, Esq., situated at Five River Plains and in the Waiau District. JAMES HARVEY, Solicitor for the said John Elles. 10th July, 1867. PUBLIC NOTICE. nnHE undersigned, in consequence of the DissoJL lution of Partnership with himself and Mr C. L. Frederic, begs to thank his friends and the public, and to inform them that he will carry on the Business on his own account, and trusts that, with increased facilities and strict attention to the work entrusted to him, to merit the patronage so liberally accorded to him heretofore. J. A. FREDERIC, Builder, Undertaker, &c, Spey Street. A thoroughly practical Cabinet Maker always on the premises. Every description of Building materials. Country orders promptly attended to. Spey Street, April Sad, 1867,