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West Coast Times, Issue 3215, 14 January 1876, Page 1

Government Advertisement SLEEPERS, MOUNT ROCHFORT RAILWAY. Public Works ( office, Wellington, 31st Dec, 1875. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to Noon on MONDAY. 31st January for the Supply and Delivery of 10,000 SLEEPERS in any quantity above 1000, for the Mount Rochfort Railway. They must be addressed to the Hon. th* Minister of Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside " Tender for Sleepers, Mount Rochfort Railway." Specifications may be seen at the Public Workf Offices at Westport, Hokitika, and Greymouth. 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 a District or Resident Engineer's office, by the same hour. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT. Assistant Engineer«in-Cliief. "THE STAMP ACT, 1875." NOTICE. SECTION 121 (1) of "The Stamp Act, 1875, provides that every person taking possession of, or receiving or paying any moneys belongiug to, or accruing from, the property (reality as well as personalty) of any per.>on dying on and after Ist January next, without having first filed the required statement and paid the duties assessed thereon, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding £500. Whether probate or letters of administration are granted by any Court or not, a statement of all property must be filed and duties paid before the property or any part thereof of any deceased person is in any manner dealt with. On payment of the proper duties, the probate or letters received from the Court, or the statement of property in other cases, will be stamped and delivered to the person entitled thereto. Fi»rmß of this, statement (L) may be obtained at any Stamp Office, at the offices of Registrars and Clerks, and from the Postmaster Depositaries throughout the Colony, from whom also may be obtained further information. R. C. HAMMERTON, For the Commissioner of Stamps. ' Head, Office, Stamp Department, • .Wellington, 1 27 th December, 1875. NEW --'LAND RAILWAYS. MOUNT ROCHFORT RAILWAY— WAIMANGAROA < ONTRACT. (PERMANENT WAY. ETC.) Public Works Office, Wellington, 17th December, 1875. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 19th January, 1876, for the above Contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside " Tenders for Waimangaroa Contract (Peimanent way, &c.)." Plans aud Specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Wellington, Greymouth, and Westport. '1 elegniphic Tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any Telegraph Office by NOON of the same date, provided that written lenders in due form are lodged at a District or Resident Engineer's Office by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some bank in the town where the tender is lodged; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as g« od for twenty-one days, and to be in lavor of ■' the ReceiverGeneral's deposit account only," and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN CARRUTHERS, Engineer-in- Chic NEW ZEALAND. PROVINCE OF TARANAKI. GOVERNMENT LAND SALES A SERIES of LAND SALES is being held iv the PROVINCE of TARANAKI under the Waste Lands Board of the Province, the Lands offered being Town and Rural Allotments, the latter varying in area from 20 to 320 acres, and the conditions of sale being by D EFE R.RED PAI'MbNTS extended over Ten Years, by Auction, for CASH ; and by FREE SELECTION for CASH. The district is traversed by the Waitara-Wanganui Railway, now in course of construction, and which is expected to be completed as far as Inglewood— the Township at the commencement of the District — in aboat eighteen months. The Laud is well adapted to Working Settlers of Small Capital, as it is easily accessible, has abundance of Timber for Building, Fencing, Fuel, and Shelter; never-fading Streams of Water, and a very Productive Soil. A good Main Road traverses the Distric so far as it is yet open for Purchase, and the District Roads will also be opened up by the Provincial Government, so as to make each Allotment accessible from the Main Line of Railway. Plans, Schedr'es, Land Regulations in the Province. &c, can be obtained at Crown Lands Office, New Plymouth. C. D. WHITCOMBE, Commissioner of Crown Juands Crown Lands Office, Tarajiaki, Ma,rc,h ,l7, ( ]s7fy 622