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West Coast Times, Issue 3220, 20 January 1876, Page 1

Government Advertisement SLEEPERS, MOUNT ROCHFORT RAILWAY. Public Works Office, Wellington, 31st Dec. 1875. WRITTEN TENDRKS 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. tru. 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 Greymoutli. Telegraphic tenders similarly addressed and marked will bp 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-Chief. "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 belonging 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 leceived from the Court, or the statement of property in other cases, will be stamped and delivered to the. person entitled thereto. Forms 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, 27th December, 1875. NEW ZEALAND. PROVINCE OF TARANAKI. GOVERNMENT LAND SALES A SERIES of LAND SALES is being held in the PROVINCE of TARANAKI under the Waste Lands Board of the Province, the Lands offered being Town aud Rural Allotments, the latter varying in area from 20 to 39,0 acres, and the conditions of sale being by D i- FE RRED PAYMtvNTS 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 w hicb. is expected to be completed as far as lnglewood — the Township at the commencement of the District— in about 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-failing 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 P.ovincial 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 Lauds Office, New Plymouth. C. D. WHITCOMBE, Commissioner of Crown uanda Crown Lands Office, Tarauaki, March 17, 1875. 622 Provincial Secretary's Office, Hokitika, 13th January. 1876. TENDERS will be received at the Provincial Secretary's Office, Hokitika, until 4 p.m., on FRIDAY, the 28th instant, for the following supplies to the various departments, for ihe nine months ending 30th September, 1876 : — Gaol rations, Lunatic Asylum rations, Forage and coals, Clothes for Gaol and Lunatic Asylum, Tools and materials for Gaol and Lunatic Asylum. Tenders will also be received for the Printing required by the Provincial Government, for the eight months ending 30th September, 1876. Further particulars can be obtained at the Provincial Secretary's Office, Hokitika. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. CHARLES WOOLCOCK, Provincial Secretary. CWERY DESCRIPTION of LABELS for CORDIALS ON SALE Labels got op for the Trade. 1 West Coasx^Ti^bs Offie?«