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West Coast Times, Issue 236, 25 June 1866, Page 3

Eleotion Notices. TO WILLIAM SHAW, ESQ., Weld Stbeet, Hokitika. QIR, — As the time approaches for tho olection of members to form tho Munioipal Council, we desire that early measures be taken to secure your election, should you consent to bo nominated. We are confident that tho interests of the town will not suffer in your hands. Your long experience in business, both in this Colony and in Victoria, is a guaranteo that, if elected, tho various Municipal matters brought before you will be dealt with in a practical manner. Difficulties of a peculiar nature will arise in the first sittings of the Council : we are confident those difficulties will be more easily but. mounted, if the oounoil bo composed of gentlemen like yoursolf, possessing very considerable experience in the formation of now settlements' anct districts':

Richard Reeves and Co. Fisher Brothers. Anderson and Mowat. Louttit, Reid, and Co. A. Boyle and Co. Hawkes and Strouts. F.W. Eickei Jones, M'Glashan, and Co. William Evans. H. Kennedy. W. L. Rees. MoirandiStaite. James Clark. Jamos Chesney and Co. John White. Henderson and Bonar. Hall, Fihlay, and Co. G. W. Sheppei'd and Co. Alfred Cleve. / Speuce Brothers. Cassius and Comiskey. Joseph Churches* J. F. Byrne and Co.F. and G. F. Bullen. Stanford and Co. Hoyt and Osborne. Mark Sprot. O. W. Oakes, Thomas Gibson. X Jones and Mce. White and Pirie. J. Powell and Co. Boylan and Cullen. Camming and Plumridge James J. Bartlett. Forsyth and Masters. James Keir and Co. M'Guire and Lynch. Ecclesfield Brothersi John Whittaker. John Solomon and Co. Alwin Palm. James Hirsch! Thos. R. Proctor. G. W, Binney and Co. Thos. Nelson. Hugh Gordon. James Pizzey. W. S. Lockhart. W. Cross J. Potter. June 16, 1866.

ri ENTLEMEN,- 1 feel myself highly flattered by tho Requisition you' have presented mo with, to offer myself as a candidate for a soat in the Municipal Council of Hokitika. My experience and ability I feel sure you over-estimate ; but such as they are I placo them at tho disposal of tho electors, should they confer upon mo the honorablo distinction of being one of their representatives. I canuot but regard with deep interest the great responsibility that may, and most probably will, devolvo upon tho first Council that will be selected to represent this long neglected and misgoverned district. Independent of tho ordinary business of a Municipal Council, occasions may arise when it may bo necessary for that body, as the only recognised representative institution here, to embody tho spirit and independence of the people who have cast their fortunes in this country, and manfully to insist upon a full measure of jußticefor them. I may hero mention, with regard to tho ate contost between Mr W. S. Moorhouse and mysolf for tho representation of Westland in the Gonoral Assembly, that no one can be bettor pleased at my defeat 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 recognise an able and staunch advocate of our common interests, and through whom, with the aid