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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4202, 8 September 1874, Page 3

Government NoticesN B EW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. CLUTHA AND MATAURA— MATAURA CONTRACT. (Formation only.) , Public Works Office, Wellington, 12th August, 1874. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to NOON on Wednesday, 23rd September, 1874, for the above CONTRACT, the length being about 25 miles 32'30 chains. They must be addressed to the Hon, the Minister for [Public Works. -We.llincrton, and marked outside, “ Tender, Mataura Contract." Plans and specifications may be seen at this Office, and at the Public Works Offices, Dunedin and Invercargil. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, null 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. N.B.—Every tenderer must enclose a priced schedule of work made out on a proper printed form, which will be supplied to persons tendering by the Engineer in charge. By Command, JOHN CARRUTHERS, Engineer-in-Chief. jypiW.ZE ALAND RAILWAYS DUNEDIN TO MOERAKX PORT CHALMERS CONTRACT.—(Formation and .Permanent Way). Public Works Office, Wellington, 4th August, 1874. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to Noon on WEDNESDAY, 9th SEPTEMBER, for the CONSTRUCTION of the above, being about 2 miles, and 70 chains. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside, “Tender, Port Chalmers Contract.’’ , Plans and specifications may be seen at this office, and at the Public Works Office, Dunedin. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, ■will be received if presented at any telegraph. office by NO ;17 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. JOHN CARRUTHERS, Engineer-in-Chief. I N BW ZEALAND RAILWAYS, TTMARTT AND WAITAKI. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received' at this office up to NO OX on Wednesday, 23rd September, 1874, for' the CONSTRUCTION of the HOOK CONTRACT of the above railway. They must he addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, .and marked outside, “Tender for' Hook ■ Contract of the Timaru and Waitaki Railway.” Plans and specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, “at 7 Wellington, Christchurch, and Timaru. ■ Telegraphic tenders 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 the office of a District or Resident Engineer by the above hour. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. Public Works Office, Wellington, August 3, 1874. APS PROCLAMATION. By His Honor William Fitzherbert, Esquire, 0.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony, of New Zealand. I WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Siiper--9 intendent of the Province of Wellington, by virtue of the powers conferred upon me by “The Local Boards Act 1873,” do hereby proclaim and appoint that a meeting of persons qualified to vote for “ The Lower Hntt District,” under the said Act, shall be held at the Mechanics’ Institute, Lower Hutt, on Monday, the 21st day of September, 1874, at 12 o’clock noon, for the purpose of electing five persons to constitute the Board of Commissioners for the said District. And, further, I do hereby appoint Ebeuezcr Baker, the Returning Officer, at such meeting for the election of Commissioners aforesaid. Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Province of Wellington, at Wellington, this 2nd day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. WILLIAM EITZHERBERT, Superintendent. Countersigned, Henuv Bdknt, Provincial Secretary. DraperyTOOK TAKING AT TE AEO HOUSE, THE FOLLOWING LINES m ;w GOODS MUST BE CLEARED fs Glengarry caps ... 0/11J 1/2 1/6 fs' knickerbocker suits .. 7/6 8/8 9/6 ya' mackintosh coats ... 6/9 7/6' 8/6 m’s black cloth trousers... 11/6 14/6 15/ m’s black sac coats ... 9/9 14/6 18/6 in’s pilot Galateas ... 16/6 19/6 22/ in’s cotton cord trousers.. 6/9 7/9 9/6 in’s Regatta shirts ... 1/11 2/9 3/3 in’s strong cotton shirts.. 1/11 2/9 3/6 in’s merino drawers ... 2/9 3/6 3/9 in’s merino shirts ... 2/9 3/6 4/6 in’s white shuts... ... 3/9 4/9 ' 5/9 m’s moleskin trousers ... 6/11 6/6 7/6 in’s Galatea suits ... 22/6 39/6 55/ in’s new silk scarfs ... 0/11J 1/3 1/6 in’s paper cuffs 0/6 per doz. pre. in’s best plush hats ... 1/11J each in’s white shirt fronts ... 0/10) each ■ong cotton tweeds ... 0/10A 1/1 1/3 ibroidered Cashmere hoods 1/6 J each L wool tartan plaids ... 1/9J per yard ■ong white flannel ... 0/S4 per yard ) yards 36in. white calico 0/4i per yard JAMES SMITH, TE ARC HOUSE. Art Unions, &c. (g PEC lAL ART UNION. Two valuable Pictures will he drawn for at Doneoker’s Union Hotel at a date which will be duly advertised. 250 MEMBERS at ONE GUINEA each. 25 tickets are reserved for Canterbury 25 „ „ Otago 130 bare been already sold, and the remain- . ing 70 are now open to the public. The pictures are now on view at Donecker b Union Hotel, where tickets can be obtained on application.