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Public If otiees HOUTH CANTERBURY STEEPLECHASE. TO BE HELD AT WAIMATE ON • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, :?73. STEWARDS : Hon. M. McLean Hon. It. «';*.mpb»'ll. Col. Packe M. Studholme, Esq. E. Griffiths, Esq. J. E. Parker, Esq. W. C. Maxwell, Esq. J. Stevenson, Esq. P. Campbell, Esq. T. Teschemaker, Esq. J. Crammond, Esq. D. Doneen, Esq. programmemaiden Steeplechase, of £30. Entrance, £3 added ; welter weights for age. For all horses that have never won an adververtised steeplechase, or hurdle race of the value of £20. SOUTH CaSTEBBUBY. STEEPLECHASE of £70, with a sweepstakes of £5 added. About two miles; welter weight for age. Entrance £2, to go to the fund. INTEBPBOVINC-AL HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE, of £100 ; nomination, £3 ; acceptances £5, added. About three miles. Nomination to be sent to the Secretary before 6 p*.r_, April 10. General entries with. sweepstake acceptances for the Handicap to be made on the 20th ApiU before 6 o'clock p.m, to tbe SecretM7 ' MICHAEL STUDHOLME, 3-27 2286 Hon. Sec, Waimate. s — OOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND MARINE ; IJ-TSUBANCE COMPANY OF NEW ' ZEALAND. CAPITAL—£7SO,OOO in 37,500 SHABES AT £20 Each, Viz., 25,000 Original Shares. 12,500 New Issue. Applications for new issue of 12,500 shares in this Company will be received until noon of tbe 21st day of APRIL instant, at the Head Office, Auckland, and at the Agencies of the Company at Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and also at the sub-agencies thereof. Forms of application and every information can be obtained from the agents and sub-agents. Shares are atpresent offered at Thirty Shillings Each, being Fifteen Shillings premium. Payments to be made as follows:—Deposit on appliea-

tion 10s per sfcare, 10s per share on allotment, and 10s per share within one month from date of allotment. Shares will be allocated in certain proportions among the various provinces of New Zealand. - By order of the Board of Directors. A. BOARDMAN. General Manager. Forms of application can be had from the undersigned:— H. Hawkins Lyttelton Dudley and Craig Kaiapoi J. H. Sutter Timaru W. Buss Raugiora Henry and Struthers ... Selwyn J. D. Garwood Akaroa M. Harris and C 0.... . ... Southbridge Or from J. DRUMMOND MACPHERSON, Agent for Canterbury. Christchurch, 31st March, 1873. 4-1 2406 COBB k CO.'S LINE OF ROYAL MAIL COACHES TO AKAROA, ' Leave tbe Booking Office, High 'treet, on TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND SATURDAYS, At 8 a.m. Returning from Akaroa on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, RIDAYS, At 8 a.m. RETURN FARES, available 14 days, £2. Great Reduction on Parcel Rates. MITCHELL k BURTON, 1 SI 750 Proprietor. Tenders. M-MMMMW _M_"_^--_»■_-_■-_■ Mil mm%m*-mmmmmmmm---mmmmmmmm%mmm m m* NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. RACECOURSE TO SOUTHBRIDGE. 1 Public Works office, Wellington, 15th March, 1873. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to 4 D.m., on Thursday 17th April, 1873, for CONSTRUCTION 1 of RACECOURSE to SELWYN RIVER Contract of the above RAILWAY. They must be addressed to tbe Minister for Public i Works, and marked outside "Tender for Railway, Racecourse to Selwyn River." Plans and specifications may be seen at the Public Works office, Wellington and Christchurch. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received, if presented at any telegraph office by noon of tbe same date, provided that written tenders in due form are lodged at the office of the District Engineer, at Christchurch, by the above boor. The lowest br any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, . i 3-18 2045 Assistant Engineer-in-Chief, t ■ SPECIFICATION FOR TIMBER SUPPLY. \ THHE BOARD OF CONSERVATORS of . JL the South Waimakariri District invite OFFERS for the SUPPLY of the undermentioned TIMBER, delivered at the Templeton Railway Station, freight paid, I viz.:— 84—14 ft 6x3) 24—18ft6x3[ . 84—12 ft 4x 3 > V.D.L. ' 84—10 ft 4x31 5 24—24 ft 4 x3j 600—12 ft 8x 1, red pine 1200 feet suprl. Bxl, any long lengths ' Also, a quantity exactly the same in number and length as the above delivered at the Christchurch Railway station. ; The whole of the timber is to be sound *■ and of good quality, and cut to the full s dimensions, and to be delivered at the abovementioned places by the day of 1873. » Tenders stating the price per 100 feet may be sent to the undersigned at the offices of , the City Council, Christchurch, up to the j 2-th April, 1873. R. J. S. HARMAN, 4-12 2703 Chairman. 5 . TENDERS WANTED, for SINKING an ARTESIAN WELL and DRAWING 1 40 FEET PIPING. Particulars to be bad from E. PARNHAM, *•- Wi &}«&§?, £ftispoi,