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Evening Star, Issue 15065, 23 December 1912, Page 1

PUBLIC NOTICES. WBATHHJt GAUGB 19 HOOK TO-DAY At CONN'S " GRAND " PHARMACY. Barometer rising. CHOICE PERFUMES FOR XMAS PRESENTS. PERFUMES at any time make acceptable Presents, but just now they are especially apt, for my London buyer advises me that it will be the height of fashion to use them at Home this Christmas. In accordance with my request to be kept up to date, he has forwarded me a. glorious selection of Perfumes in Caskets and Bottles, together with a supply of bottled Eau-de-Cologne and Lavender Water. The daintiness of these Caskets and Bottlea —no less than tho delicate, subtle odors of the Perfumes—cannot be surpassed. Come and choose from among the stock, either for your own or your friends' use. GRAND PHARMACY, GRAND HOTEL BUILDINGS, HIGH STREET. Telephone 546. P.O. Box 153. OXYPATHY is the practical application to Therapeutics of Principles in regard to Oxygen, first elaborated by M. Faraday. The life-giving qualities of Oxygen have Ion"been recognised by the medical faculty, anS Oxypathy is the treatment of disease by Oxygen taken from the air. MissWISHART, 3 Grant street, Sole Agent for Otago. Telephone 769. Sub-agents wanted. • NUGGETS VISITORS, 7-ING OSCAR" SARDINES. Don't Sw. forget to take a good supply. Insist on "KING OSCAR" Brand.

J 0 0 P E R, *J> • DENTIST. Corner of PRINCES and MANSE STREETS. LATEST PAINLESS METHOD for the EXTRACTION OP TEETH. ARTIFICIAL SETS at Lowest Prices. Hours, 9 to 6. Open Saturdays. THE OTIRA CONTRACT TERMS OF SURRENDER. [Special to the Stab.] WELLINGTON. December 21. The Prime Minister was questioned today by your representative as to the terms under which Messrs M'Lean and Co., contractors for the Otira tunnel, are to ho allowed to withdraw from their responsibility. As a guarantee of the due performance of the contract, the contractors lodged a deposit of £5,000, which is still held by the Government. Sureties for £25.000 were also entered into for the duo fulfilment of the contract bv Messrs Oliver Nicholson and John M'Leaii. of Auckland. Penalties at the rate of £2BO per week were stipulated for if the work was not completed at the due date. Approximately one-third of the work has been completed, and this, the Parliamentary Committee found, had been done at a loss to the contractors of £55,418. The contractors themselves received upwards of £200,000. Mr Maesey's answer to the question as to the terms of release was that practically the recommendation of the Parliamentary Committee will be followed. The committee recommended that the contractors' £5.000 deposit be returned and their sureties released. The committee found that the book value of the Otira tunnel plant and materials is £78.535, against which the Government have already made advances totalling over 50 per cent. If the Government terminated the contract and seized the plant the committee estimated that the loss to the contractors would be £53,418. Mr Murdoch M'Lean expressed the opinion (bearing it out with detailed figures) that the tunnel could only be completed at a cost of £IOO,OOO in excess of the contract price of nearly £600.000. __ M. Louis Gay, a merchant, of St. Etienne, France, was digging in his garden, when he found £4OO in gold which had been buried there in 1870. Last year he found £4OO in a box hidden under the tiles of his house.