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New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 847, 27 May 1854, Page 2

[ADVEim.SKMF.NT.] rpiiE Undersigned, being of thenuml cr of JL those that, after six months and losing a great deal of very valuable lime, raised the sum of one hundred and forty pounds for the purpose of giving a testimonial to Mr. ‘•‘Ovis,” after bis being defealed at an election for the Superinlendcncy, now learning with great surprise that the said Mr. “Civis” is not an admirer of public meetings at any tune, which we thought he was, and remembering that it was at a public meeting of a few of us (which he did not object to) that it was agreed to give him that testimonial,—seeing that it is now Ins opinion that “ numbers count for nothing —finding that having used our class as far as he could, and that he thinks he will not want again our “sweet voices (as Shakspeaie oi Ainsworth says), that he may abuse us with impuuilv—as he sha nl do and disco\eiing that he is not the man we thought he was, we desire to follow the example of the Harbour Commissioners (himself among them) set by them, as we believe, on his own scheming, we withdraw the sanction of our names from the list of subscribers to ilia testimonial, ft. 1>. —We wish we could withdraw our cash 100 ! BANDY Plain, one of the 10 house carpenters, John Pickaxe, labourer, David Cross-stiicm, tailor, Arran Plotiiam, surveyor, Jim Sleekface, butcher, John Duff, baker, Elegance Hincues, draper, Henry Thomas Knockemdown and Co., auctioneers, Frank Typo, printer, Cuaulev Freestone, mason, Timothy Lapstone, shoemaker, Hugh Frenghpolish, cabinetmaker, Jim Furnace, founder.