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Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 3318, 5 April 1879, Page 1

Wanted. WANTED, a Stout LAD. Apply M. M'Donnel. For Sale or to Let. A FIVE-ROOMED COTTAGE to LET. Apply to R. Reay, Tainui street. "CIOR SALE; OR TO LET. THE LEADENHAI-L 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-Grey mouth 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 tenderß 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 INVITED. TO IRONMASTERS. WANTED, 100,000 TONS OF STEEL RAILS. Public Works Office, Wellington, Jiew 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 the 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 localitif bin 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, SjLondon : 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 tie 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. T> EFE BRING to the notice, published in JAi 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 whioh may be prepared by persons resident in this Colony. A Royal Commission will bo 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 tc communicate with Dr Hector, the Chairman of the Royal Commission, without delay. All expenses of transmitting and exhibit' ing approved articles will be defrayed by th( Government ; but, as experience has provec that in exhibitions of this kind the besi effect is produced" by a few woll-displayet objects of considerable size, and as the spaa allowed to the Colony for exhibition will bi limited, a careful selection will have to bi made, so that the representation may b< complete. The Collectors of Customs at the yarioui ports have been instructed to receive ox hibits, and to forward them to the Chairmai of the Exhibition Commission at Wellington by whom they will be collected and trana mitted to Sydney ; but no exhibits can b received later than the 30th June, 1879. After the Exhibition is closed, the ex hibits will be either returned to exhibitor freo of expense, or sold ov otherwise dispose' ■ of in Sydney, afi the desire of the exhibitors but the Government undertakes no responsi '« bility for loss or damage, either in transi r p or during exhibition, or in regard to th a price to be realized if sold, nor -will the guarantee the safe remittance of the money, :e G. S. WHITMORE.