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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 929, 19 November 1881, Page 4

TO THE ELEOTOBS op WAIRABAPA p ENTLEMEN,into two Electoral Districts, I beg to offer myself as a candidate to represent the Southern Division in the next Parliament. Having represented the Electors of the Wairarapa in five successive Parliaments', I with confidence ask you to again elect me, As 80ou as the Writs are out, I shall invite you to meet me in the several centres of

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promuience attained Dy tneiocai government mid other similar questions during last sossion of Parliament, Since becoming a Bottler amongst you, any services I may have been able to render in this direction have always mot with the most generouß recognition: and 1 can only assure you that, it elected, no effort on my part will be spared in assisting to place these allimportant questions upon a satisfactory footing. The Native questioa requires more than passing notice, It is intolerable that the colony should be called upon to maintain a standing army at such a ruinous expendi tui?, and Te Whiti should be sternly told (in det'ls, and not in words), that his latest departure is in reality his last. Upon the other various questions whioh will engage the attention of electors, I shall be happy to explain my views at the several centres of population in the "electorate. While freely acknowledging the important services rendered by the Hall Government at a critical period of the colony's history I shall decline to pledge myself to ai party, but will give my support in tl direction best calculated to develope tl material interests of the country generally. I remain, Yours faithfully, I W. C. BUCHANAN. I

TO MR. M. OASELBERG. SIR,— We, the undersigned, Burgesses o the Borough of Master-ton, invite yoi to come forward as a Candidate for thi Mayoralty, believing that your businesi experience and your well-known ability an< honesty of purpose will enable you to dis charge the duties of the office to the satis faction of the ratepayers :• &• A. Vallance W. H. Hosking David Pickering A, E, S. Carr Geo. Fannin Thomas Dixon C. F. Gawitli Alez. Yule, jun W. M. Eaathopo F. W. Green James Maoara A. R. Bunny Fred. Chapman W.P.Fellingham Walter Kapp James Brown Hans Peterson T. B, Michcll Neil and Cockery C. P. Skipper Fred. H. Sutton K. B. Foster W. Hill Ehodea Donald D. Foster Hans Hansen James Clayson Tlios. H, Murray F, G. Mooro W. lorns C. E. Bremner B. P. Smith TV. Keester E. McEwau R. H. Chinchen F. B. Chalmers W. Francis A. A. Elkins James Wrigley James Thompson A. Bradford J. Gardner G. Smith Joseph Williams John Drummond Goorge Ooker David Dixon Edwin Meredith R. Wilsone F. Gray T. G. Mason C. J. Freeth Thos. E. Prim George Watson Ernest B. Hare C, Winteringham Thos. Hall Wm. Parkes J.Bulpitt D.W.Mcintosh J. Harris Georgo Young John Montgomery T. Wag? Richard Jones W.F.Eoydhouse J. Gattsoha Chas. Holdaway W. H. Bowry G. S. W. Dalrymp George Grimshaw E. Jones George Allan Thomas Parsons Donald McLachla E. J. Marley Chas. E. Daniell John Crimp Edwin Quick F. Bright Wm. Sellar Wm, Cullen

E, M. Oalloway To Messrs C. A, Vallance, David Pioki ing, W. H. Hosking, George Fannin, . Williams, and the other Gentlemen signh the requisition:— GENTLEMEN.—In answer to the vei large requisition you have presented me wit] I feel extremely pleased with the honor yo have done me and confidence you hav displayed in me, especially as it was ui sought for-and unexpected on my part. A? the requisition represents so ver largo and influential a section of tli Burgesses of Masterton I have muo pleasure in acceding to it, and if electe I promise to do my duty to the best of in ability without fear or favor, and to wor in UDisen with the Councillors for the goo of the whole Borough and to conduct th deliberations of the Council with pre priety. My personal views are well known to large number of the requitionists, butnoi state for the infermation of other ratepayer! that they arc emphatically prooreb<ive ant at the same time mek from recklessness It will bo my aim to assist in fostering sucl measures as will promote the substantia welfare and advancement of the Boroug so as to enable it to attain the position it natural advantages warrants, At the sam timo I will consider it my duty to counse' the ratepayers against unmatured scheme for recklesß borrowing and expenditure, am will use my best endeavors to protect thi Burgesses from being weighted down witl In conclusion, I wish to explain m; reasons for not having taken part in loca matters ere this, are that although havini large interests in the Borough, I have no till now bad leisure time at my disposal, am partly from not wishing to push mysel forward to tho exclusion of other gontlcmei who bad prior plaims on the suffrages of th Burgesses.—l an»;&c.', M. OASELBERG.