Up to last Saturday I had proposed offering myself for your euf- I rrages, feeling aa Ido a deep ineeroat in the welfare of this constituency, with which 1 nave beon associated many years, but baai- ness cngagementH that I have entered into snice the above date preclude me devoting tho necessary time. So much as I should have upyreciatc-d the honor of being returned as your representative the mo3t straipht- fr.rward courao to adopb ia to plainly "say that 1 have not tho time at my disposal. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, , >T. BOBKRT STUART. L Napier, August 12, 1879, 564



AMUSEMENTS. m n'"E.A TR E ROY A I Lessee and Mauagcr ... 2t. J. cb Lta POSITIVELY"FOR 6 WIGHTS ONI/ ', Commencing THURSDAY EVENING, Aug. 21, 1875 First Appearance in Napjer oftde CELEBRATED ■ VICTORIA LOFTUS TROUPE VICTORIA LOFTUS TROUPE , VICTORIA LOFTUS TROUPE or BRITISH BLONDES AND AMERICA!. SPECIALITY ARTISTS, After a most brilliant tour throughou Europe and the United States of America and the Greatest Success ever known ii Aucklrud. Dress Circle and Front Reserved £eats 4n : Stalls, 3a ; Back seats, 2s. Tiukets cai bo had at N. Jacobs', Hasiyags-streeb, wher a plan of Theatre can bo -seen 'a'ad seat secured. Doors open at half-past 7 : commencj at 8 6.0 P. H. KIRBV, Business Manager. NAPIER VOLUNTEER FIRI BRIGADE. MEMBERS will Assemble on Tub^da* at 2 p.m. &harp, to take part in cere mony of Driving the First Pile of I'or Ahuriii Bridge. Bell will be rung slowly for mußter. GEa. V. KEMSLEY, 624. Superintendent. r |"^HE undersigned beg* to inform the in JL habitants of Napier that ho has thif day taken over the Business as carried on bj Mr "A. Pkiouabd as Pork Butcher, anc hopes to receive the same liboral patronag< bestowed on his predecessor. M'IVOR, Sydney Pork Butcher, 41,8 Hastings-street. TO TIIE ELECTORS OF THE NAPIER ELECTORATE*. f^ ENTLEMEN,— Havius; received an *-* influential and numerously signed requisition from tho Wairoa settlers, and also one from tho Napier residents, ask- ing mo to allow myself to bo nominated as a candidate to represent tlieir interests in the forthcoming Parliament, I gladly accede to the request. 