General Assembly, Country district. Election of W. B. Rhodes, esq, J.P. The following gentlemen have consented to act as a committee to secure the return of W B Rhodes, esq, to represent the Wellington, New Zealand Country District in the General Assembly.. Wellin, Arrangement of text. Lists Rhodes' backers as follows: Wm Hickson, Matthew Hammond, C W Schultze, J W M'Kaine, William Galpin, Thomas Phillips, George Crawford, John Martin, Thomas Ring, James McBeth, George Buck, John McBeth, Thomas Morgan, Robert Jillett, John King, John Johnston, William Bowler, J Smith (Ohariu), Nathaniel Bartlett, James Barnes, Benjamin Jefferson, James Mitchell, Robert Waitt, John Glasgow, Edward Roe, Richard Hammond, James Hallett, J D McMannaway, John Gibson, James Calder, John Campbell, Stephen Stockbridge, John Symons, William Allen, R D Wallace, P M Hervey, Francis Bradey, W S Loxley, W Bromley, Robert Bould, Anthony Wall, Donald Ferguson, W Tankersley, John Nicol, George Edwards. Honorary secretary J H Wallace. Committee rooms at Mr M'Kaine's, Half-Way House, Mr Calder's, Rainbow Hotel, Barrett's Hotel