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Government NoticesN OTICE TO CONTRA CTOBS. Provincial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, July 29, 1874. SEPARATE TENDERS -will be received up to Noon of TUESDAY, the 18th day of AUGUST, for the construction of twentyseven COTTAGES for Immigrants—nine in Eeatherston, nine in and nine in Masterton, Wairarapa district. Plans and specifications may be seen at Club Hotel, Masterton ; Wairarapa Institute, Greytown ; Shirley’s Hotel, Eeatherston ; and Provincial Engineer’s Office here. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. ■ HENRY BUNNY, Provincial Secretary. IMPORTANT SALE OF CROWN LANDS. Notice is hereby given that 47,000 acres, more or less, of Crown Lands, divided into Suburban and Rural Sections; situated in the PARAE-KARETU BLOCK, West Coast, and distant ten miles from the township of Marton, Upper Rangitikei, will be sold by public auction, at this office, on or about Ist September. The Parae-Karetu Block, hereafter to be called, “The Township of Hunter,” is easily accessible both from Wanganui and Rangitikei. Part of the laud is covered with open bush, while that in the Pourewa Valley and also on the Turakina side consists of level country. Further information "will be given in future advertisements. JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lauds Office, Wellington, June 30, 1874. T SURVEYORS AND ROAD ENGINEERS. THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF CANTERBURY will receive applications from SURVEYORS and ROAD ENGINEERS, who may desire to obtain appointments under- the Provincial Government in the Survey Department. Applications must be made by letter, covering references and testimonials, addressed to the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch, CauterbUiy’ SAMUEL HEWLINGS, - Chief Surveyor. 2iid July, 1874. TIMARU AND GLADSTONE BOARD OF WORKS. Applications ar© invited for the Post of ENGINEER to this Board. Salary at the rate of £750 per Annum, to cover travelling expenses. No private practice permitted. Applications, . accompanied by testimonials, to be sent in not later than 11 a.m,, August 12th, addressed to the - Chairman of the Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works. Duties to commence 12th September. By order, EDWARD H. TATE, Secretary Books, Stationery, &cJUST PUBLISHED! Price, mounted and varnished, 255. A LARGE WALL MAP ' OF ALL THE' POLYNESIAN ISLANDS, By T. A. Bowden, B. A. Showing the situation of New Zealand ; relatively to the shores of Asia and North : America, with the intervening Islands. Sc*ale, 2 deg. to an inch. Also, LARGE WALL MAP OF NEW ZEALAND. New edition, showing the Railways, Main Roads, and Tracks.. By Dr. Hector, F.R.S., and Thos. A. Bowden, B.A. Price, mounted and varnished, 25a. T. A. BOWDEN, New Zealand Educational Depository, W ELL I N G T O N. NEW BOOKS, JUST RECEIVED and ON SALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED The Universe and Coming Transits, by R. A. 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Egypt of the Pharaohs; and of the Khcdivd; by F. B. Zincke. On Work and Wages, by Thos. Brassoy, M.P. The Fall of Babylon Foreshadowed by the Rev. John : Gumming, D.D. Mivart's Elementary Lessons in Anatomy. Perry’s Elementary Treatise on Steam. Against the Stream, the story of an Heroic Ago In England; by the author of The Sclionbcrg Cotta Family. Flashes of Thought, extracts from the works of C. 11. Spurgeon. t The JEnglishman’s House, by C. J. Richardson, architect. Professor Blackie on Self Culture, Intellectual, Physical, and Moral. Commercial Code of Signals, new edition ; witli 1874 supplement. Mrs, Brown on Dizzy, by Arthur Skctchlcy. ; The Earl’s Promise, a new novel by Mrs. Riddell ; cheap edition. Fantine, a romance, by Victor Hugo ; Cheap edition. Vanity Fair, vol. 10. Tylor’a Primitive Culture, 2 vols., new edition The Naturalist on the River Amazon, by U. W. Bates, 3rd edition, with maps and illustrations Six Weeks in the Saddle, a Painter's Journal in Iceland, by E. S. 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