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Press, Volume XXXII, Issue 4416, 25 September 1879, Page 4

Government TSotiees* NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. KAIWARBA CONTRACT, WELLINGTON-FOCTON RAILWAY. Public Works Office, „,„__■ Wellington, August 22nd, 1879. WRITTEN Tenders will be received at this office up till NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 15ih October, 1879, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside " Tender for Kaiwarra Contract." Plans and specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Wellington, on and | after WEDNESDAY, tbe 3rd September, and at Auckland, Napier, Chiistohurch, Dnnedin, and Invercargill, on the arrival of succeeding mail after that date. Te'egraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any Telegraph office by noon of the same date, provided that written tenders in dae form are lodged at any of the abovenamed offices by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some bank in the town where the tender is lodged; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for twentyone days, and to be in favor of the ReceiverGeneral's Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Engineer-in-Charge, North Island. BAKAIA GOSGE BRIDGE CONTRACT, No. 1. Public Works Office, Dnnedin. Sept. 19th, 1879. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to NOON on SATURDAY, October 18th, 1879, for the Erection of a Bridge over the main channel of the River Bakaia at the Gorge. They are to be marked on the outside "Tender for Bakaia Gorge Bridge, Contract No. 1," and addressed to the Hon, the Minister for Public Works, Dnnedin. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presen'ed at any Telegraph office by noon of the same date, provided that written tenders in due form are lodged at any District or Resident Engineer's office by the Same hour. Drawings, specifications, and general conditions may be seen at this office, and at the Public Works offices, Christchurch and Wellington. The' lowest or any tender will not be necessarily accepted. By command. - W. N. BLAIR, Engineer in Charge, Middle Island. NEW Z-ALAND BAILWAYS. 28LB. IRON BAILS FOR SALE. fi OVERNMENT has for Sale, in lots to suit \JC purchasers, about 300 tons Light Rails and : Fastenings, suitable for Contractors' use, Tr*mwaygj Ac. Written applications will be received at this office, and at tbe Public Workß Offices Wentport, Greymoutb,_Hokitika, Christchurch, and Invercargill. Delivery will be : given on the ground where the rails are stacked at invercargill, and adjoining the Invercargill-King-ston Railway at Makarewa. Price of rails, £6 4s per ton ; fastenings at relative prices. By command. W. N. BLAIR, Engineer in charge M. I. Publio Works Office, Dnnedin, September 19th, 1879. FREIGHT PROM FOXTON TO PORT CHALMERS. Public Works Office, Wellington, 16th September; 1879. TENDERS will be received at the Public Works Offices, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dnnedin, where specifications and conditions may be seen,' until NOON on WEDNESDAY, the Ist October, 1879, for the conveyance of about eleven thousand (11,000) sleepers from Foxton to Port Chalmers. Tenders are to be addressed to tbo Hon. the Minister for Public Work marked outside ".Tender for Freight/and to contain a marked cheque for .£25, made payable to tbe Receiver-General's Deposit Account only; The lowest-or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command. JOHN BLACKETT, Engineer-in-Charge, North Mand. Land in the Bakaia Road District, not required for public use, authorised to be Bold; hebculesTbobinson, Governor. Oedee in Cot/hceo. At the Government House at Wellington, this fifth day of July, 1879. Present r His Excellency tbo Governor in Council; WHEREAS by section twenty-nine of the Public Works Act, 1876 (hereinafter referred to as " tbe said Act"), it is enacted that, if it is found that any land taken under .that Act is not required for public use, the Governor may,, by an Order ,'in Council publicly notified ana gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions therein set forth: And whereas by the ninety fourth section of the said Act it is enacted that the land occupied by any road stopped as provided by the eaid Act shall be dealt with as provided by the twentyninth and following sections of the said Act in the cose of land not required for public use: And whereas the road, the land occupied by which is described in the schedule hereto, has been stopped under the authority of the said Act: ' And Whereas {the Road Board of the Bakaia Boad .District has laid before-the.. Governor the memorial referred to in the twenty-ninth section of the said Act, praying the ,Governor, by an Order in Council, to cause such land to be sold; Now. therefore, I Sir Herculea George - tobert Robinson, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, and in exercise aud'pursuauce of the powers and authorities aforesaid, do hereby order and. authorise the land described in the schedule hereto to be sold and dealt with in the manner and Bnbject to the conditions of the twenty-ninth and following sections of tbe said Act. SCHEDULE. All that piece or parcel of land- containing by admeasurement three (3) acres two (2) roods and twenty-one (21) poles, more or less, being the road forming the south-eastern boundary of section numbered ten thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine (10859), in the Hawkins Survey District, Rakaia Road District, County of Selwyn. Bounded towards the south-west" and north-west by section numbered ten thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine (108S9) three thousand eight hundred |38Q0) links; towards the east by a road line two hundred and twentynine (229) links ; towards the south east and north-east by Crown land, .three thousand four hundred and sixty-three (3463) links; and towards the south by the River Hororata.; be all the .aforesaid _ linkages more or less; the above particulars being delineated on the map attached tie memorial referred to. FORBTER GORING,, Clerk of. the .Executive Council. NOTICE. WHEREAS certain Public Works, th*t is to say* the CONSTRUCTION of the EYRE BRIDGE and TEMUKA BRIDGE CONTRACTS onihe Canterbury Interior Main Line-r-Oxford to Temuka—are about to be ' And whereas by The Public Works Act, 1876, it is, amongst other things, enacted that claims for compensation in the case of the Minister for Public Works shall be served by being left at such office in each district as the' Minister appoints by public notice : Now I, James Macandrew, - the Minister for Public Works,., do hereby pubKoly notify that I appoint the PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE at Christchurch. to be the Office at which persons claiming. compensation, for land taken or injuriously affected by the said public works, or sufferingany damage from the exercise of any of the powers given by the said Act in respect thereof, shall SERVE their CLAIMS for COMPENSATION pursuant to the said Act. Dated at Wellington this twenty-second day of August, 1879. J. MACANDREW, Minister for Public Works. General Crown Lands Office, Wellington, September 15,1879. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint GEO. HTLDERSBAND ALINGTON, Esq , To be one of tbe Managers of the Mount Hutt Cemetery, Provincial District of Canterbury, vice Hugh M'Braith, Esq.. resigned. W. tHSBORNE, . Minister of Lands.