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Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 3312, 29 March 1879, Page 1

For Sale or to Let. TjlOR SALE, OR TO LET, THE LEADENHALL BUTCRERY, Tainui street. The shop is fitted up with every convenience for carrying on a large wholesale, retail, and small goods trade. Apply to GIRDWOOD, LAHMAN, & CO. 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 outside " Tender for Hokitika-Greymouch 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 OF STEEL RAILS. Public Works Office, Wellington, Rew 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 STEFL RAILS, to be manufactured within the colony from New Zealand ores. Payment will be made in cash on delivery at t^e 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 localiti- s in 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, SLondon : or to W. Walton Evans, Esq., 665, 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 the 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 Government 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. REFERRING to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 36, of the 26th of April, 1878, relative to the Australian International Exhibition to be held in Sydney, New South Wales, in August, 1879, it is hereby further notified that the Government of New Zealand will be prepared 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 laier than June next, persons wishing to exhibit are invited to communicate with Dr Hector, the Chairman of the Royal Commission, without delay. All expenses of transmitting and exhibiting 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 aa 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 complete. The Collectors of Customs at the various ports have been instructed to receive exhibitß, and to forward them to the Chairman of the Exhibition Commission at Wellington, by whom they will be collected and transmitted to Sydney ; but no exhibits can be received later than the 30th June, 1879. After the Exhibition is closed, the exhibits will be either returned to exhibitors free of expense, or sold or otherwise disposed of iv Sy.ini'-y. at the desire of tUe exhibitors ; but the i>ovt rmiie.ii undertakes no responsibility for loss ■»• or damage, either in transit or^ during exhibition, or in regard to the price to be realized if sold, nor will they guarantee the safe remittance of the money. | G. S. WHITMORE.