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West Coast Times, Issue 312, 22 September 1866, Page 3

Election Notice. TO WILLIAM SHAW, ESQ., Weld Street, Hokitika. \ ' Qlß,—^s the time approaches for the election of members to form the j Municipal Council, we 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, the, 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 these difficulties will be more easily surmounted, if the council be composed of gentlemen liko yourself, possessing very considerable experience in the formation of new settlements and districts. Richard Reeves and Co. Fisher Brothers. Anderson and Mowat. Loutitt, Reid, and Co. A. Boyle and Co. Hawkes and Strouts i F. W/Eicke. Jone's, M'Glashan, and Co. William Evans. H. Kennedy. W. L. Rees. Moir and Staite. James Clark. James Chesney and Co.. John White. Henderson and Bonar. Hall, Finlay, and Co. " ' G.W. Shepperd and Co. Alfred Cleve. Spence Brothers and Co. Cassius and Comiskey. Joseph Churches. . J. F. Byrne and Co. F. and G. F. Bullen. Stanford and Cc. Hoyt and Osborne. Mark Sprot! O. W. Oakes. . Thomas Gibson. Jones and Mee. Whyte and- Pirie. J. Powell and Co. Boylan and Cullen. Cummihg and Plumridge. James J. Bartlett. Forsyth and Masters. James Keir and Co. ' M'Guire and Lynch. Ecclesfield Brothers. John Whittaker. John Solomon and Co. Alwin Pahn. James Hirsch. Thomas R. Procter. G. W. Binney and Co. Thomas kelson. Hugh Gordon. James Pizzey. W. S. Lockhart. W. Cross. J. Potter. June 16, 1866.' fi ENTLEMEN,— I feel myself highly flattered by the Requisition you have presented me with, to offer myself as a candidate for a seat in the Municipa Council of Hokitika. My experience and ability I feel sure you over-estimate ; but such as they are I place them* at the disposal of the electors, should they confer upon me the honorable distinction of being one of their 'representatives. I cannot but regard with deep interest the great responsibility that may, and most probably will, devolve upon ' the iirst Council that will be selected to represent this long neglected and misgoverned dis" trict. Independent of the ordinary business of a Municipal Council, occasions may arise when it may be necessary for that bodj r , as the' only recognised representative institution here, to embody the spirit and independence of the peoplewho have cast their fortunes in this country, and manfully to insist upon a full measure of justice for them. I may here mention, with regard to the late contest between Mi* W. S. Moorhouse and myself for the rcjyresentation of Westland in tho General Assembly, that no one can be better pleased at my- defeat than I am myself, and that I sinceroly rejoice at the return of my opponent, who at the 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 of a respectable and influential Council, Hokitika cannot fail to advance. I am, Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, William Shaav. To Messrs Reeves and Co., Fisher Bros., Anderson and Mowat, Louttit, Reid, and Co., A. Boyle and Co., Hawkes and Strouts, and the other gentlemen who signed the requisition. Weld-street, June 18th. Hokitika, Sept. 16 1866. Referring to the foregoing Requisition and Reply, I beg leave to intimate to the inhabitants of Hokitika, that I am still a candidate for tho office of Councillor in the new municipality,"