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Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 28 March 1879, Page 1

For Sale or to Let, 1 TjlOR SALE, OR TO LET. THE LEADENHAI.L BUTCRERY, Tainui street. Tha shop is fitted up with every convenience for carrying on a large wholesale, retail, and small goodß trade. Apply to GIRDWOOD, LAHMAN, & Jo. Tenders. "" HOKITIKA-GREYMOUTH RAILWAY. GREYMOUTH CONTRACT. FORMATION.; Public Works Office, Dunedin, 20th March, 1879. FRESH WRITTEN TENDERS will be. received at this office up to NoON on TUESDAY, 15th APRIL, 1879, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon the Minister for Public Works, and marked out* side " Tender for Hokitika-Greymouth Railway, Greymouth Contract." Plans and Specifications may be seen at this office, at the Public Works Offices Wellington, Christchurch, Hokitika, and Greymouth, and at the Survey Office Reefton. 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 Engineer's Office by the same hour. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command. ' W. N. BLAIR, Engineer-in-Charge Middle Island. Government Notices. TENDERS INCITED. TO IRONMASTERS. WANTED, 100,000 TONS OP STEEL RAILS. Public Works Office, Wellington, ]\ew Zealand, 6th November, 1878. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at Wellington by the Hon, the Minister for Public Works up to 30th SEPTEMBER, 1879, for the SUPPLY of the whole or any portion of 100,000 TONS of STEEL RAILS, to be manufactured within the colony from New Zealand ores. Payment will be made in cash on delivery at tte works —the Government of New Zealand agreeing to pay, in addition, one-half of the cost of the conveyance to the Colony by sea of the workmen to be engaged in the manufacture. Information as to the mineral resources of New Zealand, and maps; indicating^ the various locality sin which mineral deposits are situated in relation to means of transport may be had on application to the AgentGeneral of New Zealand, 7. Westminster Chambers, Victoria street,£London : or to W. Walton Evans, Esq., 66£, Pine street, New York. As it is unlikely that intending contractors will enter into an engagament of the above nature without first satisfying themselves by personal inspection as to the position and extent of tlie raw material in New Zealand required for the manufacture of iron, every facility and information on this subject will be afforded on application to Dr Hector, C.M.G., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Department, Wellington. For the information of parties desiring to tender, it may be stated that the official returns show that there were imported into New Zealand, within the last eight • years, 15,500 tons of cast iron, and 93,000 tons of wrought iron, exclusive of iron for Govern- ' ment and other railways, during which period 1068 miles have been constructed and opened for traffic. • JOHN KNOWLES, Under-Secretary for Public Works; AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 20th January, 1879. • T> EFE RRING to the notice published in JLli the New Zealand Gazette, No. 36, of the 26th of April, 1878, relative to the Australian International Exhibition to be held I in Sydney, New South Waleß, in August. 1879, it is hereby further notified that the Government of New Zealand will be prop pared to receive and to forward to Sydney any articles for exhibition which may be - prepared by persons resident in this Colony. A Royal Commission will be appointed immediately. who will prepare. and publish regulations under which they will receive exhibits for transmission. As articles for exhibition should be shipped from Wellington not later than June next, persons wishing to exhibit are invited to i communicate with Dr Hector, the Chairman of the Royal domroission, without delay. . All expenses of transmitting and exhibit- - ing approved articles will be defrayed by the • Government; but, as experience has proved that in exhibitions of this kind the best effect is produced by a few well-displayed objects of considerable size, and as the space allowed to the Colony for exhibition will be limited, a careful selection will have to be made, so that the representation may be 6 complete. 6 The Collectors of Customs at the various a ports have bean instructed to receive cxl " hibits, and to forward them to the Chairman !' of the Exhibition Commission at Wellington, .j by whom they will be collected and trans- , mitted to Sydney ; but no exhibits can be 6> received later than the 30th June, 1879. After the Exhibition is closed, the ex--18 hibits will be either returned to exhibitors free of expense, or sold or otherwise disposed of in Sydney, at the desire of tfhe exhibitors ; but the Government undertakes no responsibility for loss or damage, either in transit or during exhibition, or in regard to the price to be realized if sold, not will they guarantee the safe remittance of the money, G. S. WHITMORE.