Page 4 Advertisements Column 5

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4194, 29 August 1874, Page 4

Government NoticesPublic Works Office, (Colonial Architect's Branch), Wellington, 3i'd August, 1874. TENDERS are invited for the ERECTION of a POST and TELEGRAPH OEEICE at Palmerston North, in the Province of Wellington. General conditions, specifications, and drawings may be seen at the offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington, and at the office of the District Engineer, Boston. , Tenders addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside “Tender for Post and Telegraph Office, Palmerston North,” will be received at the office of the undersigned up to 4 o'clock of MONDAY, the 31st day of AUGUST, 1874. Telegraphic tenders will be received, provided the original tender and deposit are lodged with the nearest District or Resident Engineer, at the time above specified. The lowest or any tender not necessarily W. H. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect. NOTICE is hereby given that all Books belonging to the Library of the General Assembly are requested to be returned on or before MONDAY, 31st instant, in accordance with Clause xiii. of the Library Regulations. EWEN McCOLL, Sub-Librarian. JMEOBTANT SALE LANDS. OE CROWN Notice is hereby given that 47,000 acres, more or less, of Crown Lands, divided into Suburban and Rural Sections; situated in the PARAE-ICARETU 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 land is covered with open bush, while that in the Pourewa Valley and also on the Turakiua side consists of level country. Eurther information will be given in future advertisements. JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner of Crown Lauds. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, June 30, 1874. In BankruptcyIn the estate of SAM DIXON (bankrupt, January, 1872).. / CREDITORS in this estate are requested to Vj prove their claims on. or before SATURDAY, the sth SEPTEMBER, 1874, as the trustee has funds in hand. S. CARROLL, Trustee. Wines and SpiritsrjMlE IRISH whisky 'maaiK. In consequence of representations frequently addressed to us we have determined to SUPPLY THE EXPORT TRADE WITH OUR OLD WHISKY, BOTTLED IN BOND BY OURSELVES, In cases of one dozen each, containing two gallons ; thus enabling the consuming public in all parts of the world to obtain, through the usual channels, a Whisky which is not a blend, and has been properly matured before bottling. GEO. ROB & CO., Thomas Street Distillery, Dublin. . Books, Stationery, &cNEW BOOKS, JUST RECEIVED and ON SALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED The Universe and Coming Transits, by E. A. Proctor Human Longevity, its Facts and its Fictions; by N. J. Thoms w ' Life ol John Coleridge-Pattcson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands; by Charlotte M., Yongo . Coomassie e and Magdala,. the Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa ; by H. M. Stanley Perils of the Polar Seas, by Mrs. Chisholm The Now Chemistry, by J. P. Cook; being the new volume of the International Scientific Series Africa, Geographical Exploration and Christian Enterprise ; by A. G. Forbes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne; beautifully illustrated London Characters,, Illustrations of the Humor, Pathos, and Peculiarities of London Life; by Henry Mayhew Piccadilly, a Fragment of Contemporary Biography; by Laurence Oliphant; cheap edition Two Little Wooden Shoes, a new novel, by Ouida The Atlantic to the Pacific, What to See, and How to See It; by J. E. Lester, A.M. The Huguenots in Franco, by Samuel Smiles The Empires and Cities of Asia, by A. G. Forbes, with a map. . ■ _ Egypt of the Pharaohs, and of the Khedive; by F. B. Zincko. On Work and Wages, by Thos. Brassey, 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 Age in England; by the author of The Schonberg Cotta Family. „ Flashes of Thought, extracts from the works of C. H. Spurgeon. , ' , The Englishman’s House, by C. J. Richardson, architect. Professor Blackio on Self Culture, Intellectual, Physical, and Moral, Commercial Code of Signals, new edition ; with 1874 supplement. Mrs. Brown on Dizzy, by Arthur Sketchlcy. The Earl’s Promise, a new novel by Mrs. Riddell; cheap edition. - ' Fantiue, a romance, by Victor Hugo ; cheap edition. Vanity Fair, vol. 10. Tylor's Primitive Culture, 2 vols., new edition The Naturalist on the River Amazon, by 11. W. Bates, 3rd edition, with maps and illustrations Six Weeks in the Saddle, a Painter’s Journal in Iceland, by E. S. Walton . . ■ In Strange Company, being the experiences of a Roving Correspondent; by James Greenwood, “the Amateur Casual ” A History of Booksellers, the old and the new; by Henry Cnrwen, with portraits and illustrations The Friendship of Books, and other Lectures, by the Rev. F. D. Maurice _ .. The Statesman’s Year Book for 1874, by Fred. Martin Business, by a Merchant . , , A Critical Examination of ihe.Gospcl History My Kalulu, Prince, King, and Slave, a Story from Central Africa; by H. N. Stanley Brewer’s Dictionary Ptaraso and Fable, new and revised edition , _ , Farjeon’a Christmas Stories, in 1 rol., viz.— Blade o Grass," “Golden Grain," and “Breadand Cheese and Kisses" . . , ■ . Wright's History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art • ■ , . A History of Clubs and Club Life, by John Timba Wonders of the Yellowstone Regions in the Rooky Mountains, by James Richardson Sahara and Lapland. Travels in the African Desert and the Polar World ; translated from the French by Mrs. Cashel Ilooy ; Now Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun, its annals during the past twenty years, recording the remarkable progress of the,Japanese in Western Civilization: by Samuel Mossman, with maps Bocton’s Law Book, a practical compendium of the general principles of English Jurisprudence Bollcau’s Traverse Tables, now edition ' Threading My Way, twenty-seven years of Autobiography; by Robert Dale Given The Story of Goethe’s Life, by G. H. Lewes The Artist of Collingwood, by Baron na Carriag From Patinos to Paradise, or Light on the Past, the Present, and the Future; by Dr. Gumming Life of the Rev. William Anderson, L.L.D., Glasgow ' . LYON & BLAIR, ’ ' (Successors to William Lyon.)