ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2281, 29 August 1870, Page 2

ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH.

To (hr Editor of the Ennimj Htar

Sm, —With your permission, in the absence of professional periodicals, such as there are in London, 1 shall avail myself of the columns of the Ecenhnj Star, t» publish the amounts of the several tenders sent in on Saturday last for the erection of St. Joseph’s Church, Dowling street, addressed to the Rev. Dolphin Morciu and Committee. The exceedingly close approximation of the amounts calculated hy the several building firmr, is alike creditable to all parties concerned, evincing not only practical knowledge of their business, but a determination to establish a new order of things in the building trades, for the haphazard guesses which have heretofore been the rule, alike disgraceful to all, foreshadowing ruin, and in which eventually all parties concerned suffered, from the timber merchant down to the ordinary laborer, more or less, each in proportion to the risk incurred. The church, if erected in brick with internal finish in cement, is estimated to cost, by William Dal/.iell ... ... L 2700 Messrs Wood and Dunn ... 29")0 Messrs Ooodfcllow and Hunter 3112 If executed in brick, with internal finish in Oarnaru stone — William Dal/.iell ... ... L3OOO Messrs Wood and Dunn ... 3201) Messrs Goodfellow and Hunter 3293 If executed in Oarnaru stone internally and externally, the most desirable — William Dalziell L 3400 Messrs Wood and Dunn ... 3GBO Messrs Ooodfcllow and Hunter 3GSO To myself professionally, the result is exceedingly gratifying ; as it must be to the Committee, seeing that the differences, in , any case between the highest [ and lowest . tender is but the very trilling amount of L2do and L2BO. Yours, &c., Millar, E.S.A, N.B.—The members of the congregation will observe that a meeting has been called by advertisement for Tuesday evening, at 8 o’clock, in the church. Dunedin, August 29th, 1870,