PREMIUM FOR DESIGNS FOR COLLEGE BUILDINGS. TO ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS.— The Board of Trustees of tho Nelson Trust Fluids hereby offer a sum of Fifty Pounds sterling (£SO sterling) for tho best Design, and the sum of Twenty Pounds sterling (£2O sterling) for the secondbest Design for a Building for a College, required to contain sufficient accommodation for instructing about 100 pupils in the ordinary branches of a liberal education, and at the same time convenient rooms for one or two masters (in all probability married men), and for the lodging of thirty boarders. The building will be placed nearly in the centre of a block of land of 17 acres, which rises with a gentle slope facing the west, and is backed by a lofty range of hills. The material of which it is proposed to construct it is strong timber, with lath and plaster outside and in. A preference will be given to such designs as are not above two stories high, ■which combine, as far as possible, economy and commodious arrangement with architectural beauty, and which are, at the same time, so planned as to be capable of extension if required. Gentlemen offering designs will be pleased to address them to the care of Mr. JfeNKiNS, the Secretary to the Board, at Nelson, on omefore the First day of November next, and to accompany them with sealed letters, containing the name and address of the competitors, which will not be opened until the selection is made. Plans submitted must contain the ground plan of the building, and elevation, and such cross sections as may be necessary to exhibit its character. A. G. Jenkins, Secretary to the Board of Trustees. Nelson, New Zealand, /■ 4th July, 1855. V THE Undersigned -will be prepared, the First Week in January next, to take CATTLE and HORSES "on the following terms : — Cattle atflSs., and Horses at 20s. per year. The charge for driving will be moderate. There will be an entire Cart Horso on tho Station in the season 185(i-7. Young Cattle in the Wairau taken in exchange for Sheep. / / Augup 27th, 1855. George F. Bush. [VILOWAY'S PILLS and OINTMENT. IS — Holloway is the largest dealer in Medi. cine/ in tho world, and his Pills and Ointment are among tho best in the world. This fact will be attested by theinnnterous certificates from every section o( this andi<^ie'oß| country. Their popularity is entirely owinc to their efficacy. He expends upwards of £30,000 peKaaiuuz^ in placing his business before the people in every quarter of the globe, and keeps upwards of 2,000 foreigu newspapers at his establishment in London, in eacn rf>f which liis advertisements are inserted, •'a 'proof iMt the virtues the medicines possess are appreciated in every part of the world. — Albany, United States, Transcript. Holloway's Wholesale Depot, 214, Strand, London k and 80, Maiden-lane, New York. TliA invMuablo Medicino may bo had, in Nelson, of Mr. WiLEjE, Bridge-street, who has just received a fresh supply, in boxes and pots, at Is. 3d., 3s. 3d., and ss. 3d. each. TO STAND this SEASON, at Flaxbourne, at £1- 4 0 each Mave, the two thorough-bred Horses, ST. GEORGE and VACCINATION, the property of William Harris Harris. St. Geoege's pedigree is well known. • Vaccination is by Dr. Jenner, out of Lucy, by Emigrant ; Lucy's dam by Satellilo. N. B.— Vaccnwtion will not be at the Station until the end of Norember. <±/ O STAND THIS SEASON, at Mr. H. GODFREY'S, Wairau Plain, the well-known Cart Stallion CAPTAIN. This Horse was imported from England by H. Martin, Esq., and is confessedly the best Cart Stallion in the Province. v Terms. — £4 each Mare (to be paid on or beforo the Ist of January next), and ss. tho Groom. A Paddock for Mares at 2s. Gd. a week. i Wairau Plain, August 30. MR. G. S. FLEMMING, TAILOR, begs to acquaint the public of Nelson that ho has COMMENCED BUSINESS in the above lino in the Haven-road, next door to Mr. Rochfort's store, and, from his long experience in tho most fashionable towns, trusts, by moderate charges and prompt attention to orders, to merit a Bharo of public patronage. Haven-road, September 3. V 1 pATTLE takln on FOURTHS, by parties , V^ of experience and respectabilty, on a Eun south of the Canterbury block. For further particulars apply to. J. Loxgden, Can terbury. MARES, EX 'WATERWITCH.' I EOR SALE, ex ' Waterwitch,' 45 useful MARES, from the well-known stud of J. Windham, Esq., New South Wales. May be seen at ' Eostrevor Farm, Eichmond. For particulars apply to W. E. Nicholson & Co., Nelson ; Or to Mr. Curb, at the Star and Garter, "^ Richmond. Nelson, June 9. CIRCULATING- LIBEAEY. ■jVTCmCE.— Mr. A. AITKEN wishes to JL 1 inform any parties who may have Books by them belonging to his Library, that he is anxious tc have them EETUENIi)D*AT ONCE, in order tha< he may be able to fornNii«*corrccfc Catalogue, with the intention of again opening his Library as early ac possible. Albert House, August 13. IyrOTICE.— AII POULTRY found on my 1.1 premises after this date will be DESTEOYED W. Wheeldox, September 10, 1855. Waimea Eoad. "jVTOTICE. — Boatmen and others are hereby JLI CAUTIONED against CUTTING any TIMBER at Awaroa, on the right bank of Chapman's River, extending up to the first fall : Any person 'discovered injuring the aboro Property will be PROSECUTED. Ambrose Eiceetxs. Nelson, September 14y "jVTOTICE.— AII POULTRY found trespassJL 1 ing on the grounds of the undersigned after this date, will be destroyed. v Stephen Adam. Waimea Eoad, Sept. 17. T~ OST, 011 Monday, the 17th instant, beI 1 tween Hardy-street and the Wood, a TUSCAN BONNET. Whoever will return the same to the undersigned shall receive FIVE SHILLINGS REWAED. / y/ J. F. Wilson, Sept. 18. Surgeon. I HEREBY give NOTICE that all Persons found TEESPASSING along my PEIVATE EOAD, commencing at Mr. Hopgood's corner, will be Prosecuted after this date, according to law. v x J. G. Gore. Chaceley Hill End, Waimea South, August 31. NOTICE. — As many Persons are continually damaging my PRIVATE EOAD, leading to the Saw MiS, I hereby give Notice that all Persons found driving cattle, or otherwise TRESPASSING on the said Road, after this date, will be Prosecuted as the law directs. Hugh Martin. August 26th, 1855.
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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 51, 22 September 1855, Page 2
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