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West Coast Times, Issue 233, 21 June 1866, Page 3

Election Notices. TO WILLIAM SHAW, ESQ., Welp Stbeet, Hokitika. QJ IR,— As the time approaches for tho election of members to form tho Municipal Council, wo desire that early measures be taken to secure your election, should you consent to bo nominated. We are confident that the interests of the town will not suffer in your hands. Your long experience in business, both in this Colony and in Victoria, is a guarantee that, if elected, tho various Municipal matters brought before you will be dealt with in a practical manner. Difficulties of a peculiar nature will ariso in tho first sittings of the Council : wo are confident these difficulties will bo more easily surmounted, if the council bo composed of gontlemon liko yourself, possessing very considerable experience in tho formation of new settlements and districts. Richard Reovos and Co. Fisher Brothers. Anderson and Mowat, Louttit, Roid, and Co. A. Boyle and Co. Hawkes and Strouts. F. W. Eicke. Jonos, M'Glashan, and Co. William Evans. H. Kennedy. W. L. Rees. Moir and Staite. James Clark. James Chesney and Co. John Whito. Henderson and Bonar. Hall^Finlay, and Co. G. W. Shepperd and Co, Alfred Clove, Spence Brothers. Cassius and Comiskey. Joseph Churches. J. F. Byrno and Co. F. and G. F. Bullen. Stanford and Co. Hoyt and Osboino. Mark Sprofc. 0. W. Oakos, Thomas Gibson. Jones and Mee. White and Pirie. J. Powell and Co. Boylan and Cullen, Cumming and PlumridgOi James J. Bartlott. Forsyth and Masters. James Koir and Co. M'Guire and Lynch. Ecclesfield Brothers. John Whittaker. John Solomon and Co. Alwin Pahn. James Hirsch. Thos, R. Procter. G. W. Binney and Co. Thos. Nelson. Hugh Gordon. James Pizzey. W. S. Lockhart. IW. Cross J. Pitter. June 16, 1866.

r\ ENTLEMEN,- 1 feel myself highly flattered by the Requisition you have presented me with, to offer myself as a candidate for a seat in tho Municipal Council of Hokitika. My experience and ability I feel sure you over-estimate ; but such as they are I place them at tho disposal of tho electors, should they confer upon mo the honorable distinction of being one of their representatives. I oannot but regard with deep interest the great responsibility that may, and most probably will, devolve upon the first Council that will be selected to represent tbis long neglected and! misgoverned district. Independent of the ordinary business of a Municipal Council, occasions may ariso when it may bo necessary for that body, as tho only recognised representative institution here, to embody tho spirit and independence of the people who havo cast their fortunes in this country, and manfully to insist upon a full measure of justice for thorn. I may hero mention, with regard to tho ate contest between Mr W. S. Moorhouso and myself for tho representation of Westland in tho Gonoral Assembly, that no one can bo better pleased at my dofoat than I am mysolf, and that I sincerely rejoice at tho return of my opponent, who, at tho time, was a stranger to most of us, but in whom I rocogniso an able and staunch advocate of our common interests, and through whom, wi£h the aid