SLEEPER CONTRACT.

West Coast Times, Issue 10340, 1 August 1896, Page 4

SLEEPER CONTRACT.

A recent gazette publishes the following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders for the supply of 15,500 sleepeis for the Eketahuna- Woodville Railway is published for general information : —

Accepted— G. Gardner and Son, Mangatainoka, 2500, totara, 3s, delivered at Hukanui Station ; G. Gardner and Son, Mangatainoka, 2500, totara, 3s, delivered at Newman ; B. de Malraonche, Mangatainoka, 1500, totaia, 2s sd, delivered at Ngawaparua; Jas. Drysdale, Newman, 4000, tofcara, 3s, delivered at Newman ; F. Clifford & Co, Makuri, 500, totara, 2s 9d, delivered at Newman ; G- Copeland, Maharahara, 2000, totara, 2s lid, delivered at Ngawaparua ; C. N. Clausen, Palmerston North, 2000, totara, 2s Bd, delivered at Ngawaparua, Newman and Tutaekara ; C. White, Woodville, 500, totara. 2s 3d, delivered at Woodville Station.

Declined— Whiteman Bros & Co, Uppei Hu*t, 5000, birch, 2s 6d, delivered at Upper Hutt ; T. Price, Newman, 12,000, totara, 3s Id, delivered at Newiran or Maugatainoka : A. B. Amundsen and Co., Maharahara, 700, totara, 3s, delivered at Ngawaparua Station ; Hawke's Bay Timber Coy., Napier, 2500, totara, 3s 6d, delivered at Ngawaparua ; Hawke's Bay Timber Coy., Napier, 2500, silver-pine, 3s ljd, delivered at Tahoraite ; J . Hunter aud Murtha, Kumara, 1000, silverpine, 2s 6d, delivered at Kumara Station ; W. O'Sullivan, Goltfsborough, 1000, silver-pine, 2s 3d, delivered at Flowery Creek Station ; P. Keenan, Rimu, 600, ailver-pine, 2s 6d, delivered at Greymouth ; G. C. A. Mer-

veldt, Fox's, 1,000, silver-pine, 23 4d, delivered at Hokitika ; John Hahn, Kokiri, 1,000, silver-pine, 2s 4d. delivered at Groymouth wharf; Eric Olafsen, Stillwater, 500, silver-pine, 2s 2|d, delivered

at Greymouth wharf ; Hugo Lundquist

stillwater, 500, silver-pine, 2s 3£d, delivered at Greymouth wharf ; Elisha Lockington, Reefton, B,OCO, birch. 2s 3^d,

delivered at Greymouth wharf ; N. Mortenson, Jacomi, Doutella, Stillwater, 1,000, silver-pine, 2s 4d, delivered nt Greymouth wharf ; George iLemon, Nelson Creek, 1,000, silver-pine, 2s 4d, delivered at Greymouth wharf ; Minehan, Doolan, and M'Cready," Ross, 2,000, sil-ver-pine, 2s lOd, delivered at Greymouth wharf ; Minehan, Doolan, and M'Cready. (alternate tender) Ross, 2,000, silverpine, 3s 3d, delivered at Wellington wharf; Harry Feary, Stiljwater, 1,000, silver-pine, 2s 4d, delivered at Greymouth wharf; Osmund Butler, Kokiri, 2,000, silver-pine, 2s 3d, delivered at Greymouth wharf; James Brissell, Kokiri, 2,000, silver-pine, 2s 3d, del'veredat(rieymo"th wharf ; Joseph butler, Kokiri, 2.000, sil-ver-pine, 2s 3d, delivered at Greymouth whaif ; William Butler, Kokiri, 2.00 U. silver-pine, 2s 3d, delivered at Gre>mouth wharf ; Thomas Baxter, Stillwater. 2,000, silver-pine, 2s 3d, delivered at Greymouth wharf ; Willia.ii Baxter, Kokiri, 2,000, silver-pine, 2s 3d, de livered at Greymouth wharf ; Albert Foord, Kokiri, 2,000, silver-pine, 2s 3d, delivered at Greymouth wharf ; James Baxter, Kokiri, 5,000, silver -pine, 2s sd, delivered at Greymouth wharf ; Baxter Bros., and Foord, Kokiri, 3,000, birch, Is 9d, delivered at Greymouth wharf ; John Balemi, Kokiri, 2,000, ailver-pine, 2s 3d« delivered at Greymoafch wharf ; W A Lawson and Party, Kumara, 3,000, silverpine, 2s 4d, delivered at Kumara station ; Thoa. Feary, Stillwater, 2,000, silver-pine, 2s 4jd, delivered at Greymouth wharf ; Robert Watson, Dillmanstown, 500, sil-ver-pine, 2/4. delivered at Kumara station';

William Smifeh& Co, Hokitika, 2000, sil-ver-pine, 2s llfd, delivered at Welling-

i ton wharf ; W. Gibson, Cape Foulwind, I*2ooo, ailver-pine, 2s 3d, delivered at West-

port wharf ; H. Carter, Cape Foulwind, 1000, silver-pine, 2s 6d, delivered at Westport wharf ; F. Fox, Cape Foulwind, 1500,' silverTpind, 2s 4d, delivered at

Westport wharf ; Jamieson Bros, -Hape Foulwind, 1000, silver-pine, 2s 4d, de livered *at Westport wharf ; Jamieson Bros, Cape Foulwind, 1000, Silver Pine, 2g sd, delivered at Westport wharf; Mackay and Creed, Cape Foulwind, 1,000 si'ver pine, 2s 6d delivered at Westport vharf; Mackay and Creed, Cape Foulwind, 1,000, birch, 2s 6d delivered at Wesport wharf,- Mohikinui Sawmill Company, 3,009, birch, 2s 3d, delivered at Westpori wharf.