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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 15

•Tli-e Got enuaen-fe 1 li&s accepted the- tender iof Mr N. Meuli. (£5344 10s 4d> -for- . the- erection of'the ;pqst. office- at - ntii.! The tender- oh Messrs-- - Tnriibtill and'/Sons (£1473) lias been accepted-'for ■c electric lighting at' the Pprirua Asylum. t Tli# following, tenders, for the; erection of post- offices 'have- 'been : aceeptedttr- 1 - ' Messrs A. Miller • Afct; (Inglewood) .nWA'-Wcbch (Tarawerah A vote of £looo' has been■.Aiiule-’to-wards-.: the .prosecution of the . .Otagoc. Central’v ■: Railway ; £SOO - for :.the Hokitiha-Ghrist- l - ■ church" -road-;- -£IOOO- fCr;;-thc--Blenheinf-' - ' Waipara -''Railway; £i000' : for the Cat-' - 7 ■;lih-s-Seawafd -Bush Railway t The; tender : 7 ( 'of Hr -E. • Seagar - '(£3-50) iias .been- - ...cepfeed for the erection;of-ail iron fence- -- '' - ln. : front * o-f the- .Departmental-' Buildings , V -at . Wellington. Messrs' Scott-'Bros/ tender has- been 1 accepted for the supply of ..I-boilers at the Seacliffy Asylum"; 'and that-a cjf H. Moyer; for the erection of a, ' sAtiye school at Omaramutu. ’..1 ;ivl-r 'T;* "W. Adams ; has'&tydry fine plan-: * 5 . tat ion of trees. a-t-G'r&endaley'Ca'ntexbury..-'; The plantation-., (says the. ;‘ f P!ress”).' consists of one -hundred and fifty aof.eS -’.;df _" ' trees, - planted in . belts across- .the pro- ;; ‘ perigr, to give - shelter, from--the--:'north- : west.and! south-east winds. ~" There are.; * over eight hundred, 'different’ and! : . ya-ribties, -principally:-conifers,- -CQllcCbed.-•, from Europe, Ain erica./Japan, and-from '''.other temperate.--regions/:Of ?the oah '■.there are no less than thirty-nine ryarie-. ; 'ties’, principally American,, -but;.;-.soaae g'frbin Japan. A portion- of .the planting" ' "lias’ been done with , a yiewrto/r.afemgy’ timber trees, Mr Adams haying ; gone; in , largely - for the pinus iaricio, .'whi'eh/-he/ ' . considers more valuable as a. timber tree , than the insignia,’ though ?’ ‘a. fast-growing, variety/ /’ tOfl the/pra-: i p'erty there is.also ; a yery extehsiye-. cot- ’ : lection of , shrubs,.;.gatjhq^id/^pißL'' £ /foment parts • of the wQfldt ,’and; fhahyi of r .', l them unknown to cqldhial - r value of : Mr Adamses‘eifcblleht wbfk lies ' very largely in his ascertaining the trees best* adapted for the climate.