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Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. PATEA-MANAWATU RAILWAY. BRUNSWICK CONTRACT (PERMANENT WAY). LENGTH ABOUT NINE MILE 3 SIX CHUNS. Public Wcks Office, Wellinsrton, 13th Jaly, 1878. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office, until NOON on M< 'ND AY, the 2dth August, 187 a% for the above contract. They mu*t be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside " Tender for Brunswick Contract (Permanent way)." Plans and specificitions may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Anckland, Christchurch, Dnnedin, Invercargill, Wanganui, and Wellington, and at Railway Manager's Office, Napier. Telegraphic 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 due form are lodged at a District or Resident Eng : neer's office by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some bank in the town where the tender i* lodged ; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for ! twenty-one days, and to be in favour of the Receiver-General's Deposit Acconnt only, and not to bearer or order. The loweat or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, 7-25 Engiueer-in-Oharge, North Island. LAND DISTRICT OF CAN! ERBURY. PUBLIC N TICE. THEREBY GIVE NOTICE that an Application has been lodged in the Lund Office, Ctristchurch, hy JOHN CO'iDY, as the present hold r of Pasturage Licenses nu*nbers ,05, Class 11., and G7, (lass 111., to have said Licenses CANCELLED, and in liei thereof to have ONE License issued to him by the Land Board whi h which shall comprise the whole of the land now held by him under the two Licenses above mentioned. Thi-i applica'ion, and the objections that may be mide to it if »ny, will be considered by the 1 and Board on MONDAY, the 2nd of September next, at 3 p.m. JOHN MARSHMAN, Chief Commissioner land Board. Land Office, Christchurch, July 6, 1878. 7-24 NOTICE. WHEREAS certain PuSlic Works, tliat is to say, the construction of a portion of the Amberley to Bluff Railway (Addington workshop), are about to be executed: And whereas, by The Public Works Act, 1876, it is., amongst other things, enacted that c'aims for compensation, in the ease of the Minister for Public Works, shn'l be served by being left at such office in ea h district as the Minister aopoiuts by public noti'-e. i*ow T, JAMES MAO -VN D KEW the M mister for Public Works, do hereby publi-iy notify that I appoint the t )ffice of the Commissioner of i ailways, Christchurch, the Office at which persons claiming comi ensation for land tiken for or injuriously affected hy, the sai-t pu'-iic works, or suffering any damage from the exer ise of any of the powers given by the paid Act in respect thereof, shall serve their claims for compensation pursuant to said A ot. Dated at Wellington, this seventh day of August, 1878. J. MACANDRKW, Minister for Public Works. Extract 'rom " NewZeal.ndGazette," April2s. 1878. £10,000 BONUS. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, April 22,1878. ~kTOTICE is hereby given that, in terms of a J3l resolution of the House of Representatives, the Government of New Zealand will pay. by way of bonus, the sum of five thousand pounds (£5000) to any individual or company who shall first produce not less than five hundred (500) tons of marketable sugar from grown and manufactured in the North island. Also, that a like sum of five thousand pounds (.£501)0) will bo paid to any individual or company who shall first produce not less than five hundred (c 00) tons of marketable sugar from beet grown and manufactured in the Middle Island. Such bonus to be paid upon its being duly certified by the Commissioner of Crown Lands of the district within which the sugar shall have been produced and by the Chairman of the nearest Chamberof Commerce, that the minimum quantity hereinbefore mentioned has been so produced, and is of marketable quality : Provided further that such certificates shall have been presented at the Colonial Treasury within three years of the date above -mritten. J. MACANDREW, Minister of Lands. NOTICE OK INTENTJOv TO euJMSi.TUTE A NEW DISTRICT, TO BE C.VLI-ED THE MOUNT HUTT ROAD DISTRICT. Colonial Sm-etarv-'s Office, Wellington, iigust 12th, 1878. HIS Excellency the Governor direct-t it to be notified that to ha-i received a petiion praying that the portion of the ."outh Kaka a Road District described herenr.der may be severed from tbe aforesaid distr'ct and constituted a new district, to bo called the Mount Hutt Road District. If within two months from the date of the first issue of this noti.-e no counter-pe'ition shall have been/ received by him, his Excellency will proceed in the manner prescribed by section two of the Canterbury Boads Ordinance Amendment Act, 1877. G. S. WHITMORE. BOUNDARIES. Commencing at a point'on the south-west side of tho river Raktiia, the same being in live with the south-sastcrn boundary of section 7305 ; thence north-westerly, following up the said river to its confluence with Cascade Glen; tbence south-wes-terly, following up Cascade Glen, the western branch thereof, and the southeastern boundary of Run 460, diss 3, to the north br.uich of the river Ashburton; thence south-easterly, following down the said river to the touth-west corner of Run 698, clas- 3; thence eisterly, following the southern bound n-y thereof to the south we -t boundary of Bun 701. class 3 ; thence south-easterly, followiug the southeast boundaries of liuns 701, class 3, and 199, class 3, to tho southernmost corner of the la*t°r Run ; thence north-easterly along the south-east boundary thereof to the westernmost corner of hun 73.'), cl iss 3; thence s-mth-ensterlv, foliowi g the Fouth west boundari s of the said f- un 739, cliis* 3, to the piint of its intersection hy the linn of road leading from the liakaia it the Ashburton by nthony Thompson's; theuc3 easterly, following that road to its junction with the road forming the pouth-east boundary of section 27070 ; thence north easter.y, f blowing the latter road to its junction with tbe lvad noith-e:st of section 23437 ; thence north-westerly along the la it-men-tioned road to its jun< tion with the road sepm-ating sections 15)97 and 17969, and from thence retcruing north-easterly al ng tie same, and a line in continuation of the south-ea-t boundary of section 7305 to the commencinif point. NOTICTToF PETITION FOR DIVISION OP THE AMURI HIGHWAY DISTRICT. Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, July 25, 1878. is hereby given that a Petition has been received by the Colonial Secretary, signed by eighteen freeholders and of land iv the Amuri Highway District, praying that the dis f rict may be divided and a separate Highway District be proclaimed, to be called the St. Leonard's Highway District, having the following boundaries : Starting at tbe boundaries of the Cheviot and Amuri Highway District, on the Hurunui rivrr ; thence along the said boundary to the river Wairauiua; thence following the course of said river upwards to the bonndary of St. Leonard's and Culverdon Estates; thencealong the boundary of said estates to the Pahau river: thence following the course of the said river upwards to the boundary of the Balmoral Estate and the Pahau Educational Reserve, and along the said boundary to the Hurunui river ; thence downwards a'ons the course of said river t» the point of commencement, comprising the properties known as the St. Leonard's > state and Pahau Educational Re.-erve, including the Township of Rotherham. Any persons who desire to object to the prayer of this petition should signify their intention by forwarding a counter petition to the Colonial Secretary, bearing an equal or greater nnmber of signatures, within one month from the publication of this notice. G. S. CQQPEB, Under-Secretary.