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Wellington Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2376, 16 June 1866, Page 8

I GOVERNMENT NOTICES. PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH. TO CONTRACTORS AND OTHERS. THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT of MARLBOROUGH hereby invite Tenders for the DESIGN and ERECTION of a CART BRIDGE ovor the the River Wairau, near the present Ferry, and on the direct road from Blenheim toPicton. The designs to bo for either a wooden or an iron structure, and the Bridge to bo erected and maintained at the expense of the contractor, who will bo guaranteed fcho exclusive right of Tolls (according to a fixed schedule of rates) for a term of fourteen years. A plan showing the proposed site and sections of the same, also a statement in reference thereto, and thejsohedulo of tolls to.be charged, may be inspected at tho Provincial Engineer's Office, Wellington. Tenders will be received until the 31st day of December, 1866, at tho Office of the Provincial Secretary, Blenheim, whore all local information can be obtained. JaMES BALFOUR WEMYSS. Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Blenheim, Marlborough. Superintendent's Office, Napier, May 26, 1866. NOTICE ia hereby given that the Sections in Hikutoto and Papakura Blocks, ihuriri Plains, Province of Hawkes 1 Bay, will be Leased by Auction on the 28fch June, 1866, on the terms and conditions as stated in the "Hawkes' Bay Gazette," No. 117, dated May 21. JOSEPH RHODES, Deputy Superintendent. COMMISSARIAT. Commissariat Office, Wellington, Bth June, 1866. SEALED TENDERS (in duplicate) will bo received at this office until noon of SATURDAY, the 16th instant, from persons willing to contract for tho supply of the undermentioned articles for l,he period, from the 16th June, 1866, to 31st March, 1867, viz. :— ' MIXED VEGETABLES, per lb. Forms of Tenders and any other information that may be required will be suppliod on application at this office. GEORGE GRAY, Assistant Commissariat Storekeeper In charge. PUBLIC NOTICE. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 9th June, 1866. NOTICE is hereby Givon, that about 17,250 acreß of LAND in the Whareama Block, ) East Coast District, will bo put up for SALE, by Public Auction, at this office, on TUESDAY, the 10th day of July next, at one o'clock p.m., at the upset price of ss. per acre, and in allotments varying in size from 114 to 320 acres. For further particulars Beo " Provincial Government Gazette," No. 14, of the Bth Juno, 1866. Plans of the Block, shewing the various allotments, are open for inspection at this office. WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Commissioner of Crown Lands. mENDERS are required for the following X work in Wellington Harbor : — ■ Three ANCHORS and two BUOYS to be LIFTED and LANDED above high water mark, opposite Government House, and one ANCHOR to be LIFTED and REPLACED in a new position, to be pointed out. Tenders addressed to the Provincial Secretary will be received at hiß office on or before Tuesday, 12th Jvne, at noon. A. FOLLETT HALCOMBE, Provincial Seoretary. Provincial Secretary's office, Wellington, 7th Juno. 1866. EXTRACT FROM DOG NUISANCE ACT. Police Office, Wellington 6fch June, 1866. NO. 8. — "Any dog or dogs not having attached to a collar tho badge for the current year shall be deemed unregistered and may be destroyed if €o\md at large." i (Signed) FREDERICK ATCHESON, Inspector of Police. MISCELLANEOUS. ANY person who is able to give inform&tion relative to one CHARLES ROGERS, will oblige the advertiser. C.R. left Bristol, in 1856, for Australia; was last heard from personally in 1856, and is supposed to have left either Australia or Tasmania for New Zealand in 1863. Address — E. M., "Wellington Independent" Office. May 29th, 1866. ON SALE, by tho undersigned, in origina packages, or open stock — gold and sUver watoliesandjewellory of every description; English French, and American clocks; electro-plated and ! German silver wares ; musical instruments, hard- | ware, saddlery, saddles, spurs, cutlery, guns, pistols, perfumery, soaps, stationery and acoountI books, cricketing goods, looking-glasses and j mirrors, tobacconists' fancy goods, wax vestas, cabinet wares, combs, assorted brushware, patent medicines, pain-killor, chlorodyne, papier macho goods, bagatelle tableß and boards, toys, games, and every variety of English and Foreign manufactured fancy goods. S. HOFFNUNG & Co., General Merchants and Importers, 2 Wynyard-streot, Sydney. . , Established 1853.