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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2786, 22 January 1872, Page 3

Sales by Auction. MU v DAY, 29ih JANUARY, At 2 o’clock. CLEARING SALE OF CONTRACTOR’S PLANT AT PORT CHALMERS. For Positive Sale—No Reserve. M'LANDRESS, HEPBURN, and CO, arc instructed by Messrs Connor and Al‘Kay to Sell by auction, at Port Chalmers, on Monday, 2!)’tli January, at 2 o’clock, Tho following Contractor’s plant, viz : 1 portable engine, 8 H.P., by Young and Co. London. 3 stouebreaking machines Appleton’s patent 3 jib cranes 1 9-in centrifugal pump, with 27 feet piping —ISOO gals per minute 1 7-in dodo, with 27 feet do—looo do do do a quantity of iron rails 1 Oregon spar, 80 feet x 21 x 21 1 do 66 feet x 18x18 1 do 4-1 feet x 16 x 16 A quantity of Oregon, in planks and scantlings About 30,000 feet sup. native timber, in logs Do 10,000 do do in scantlings 6 x 6 to 18 x 6 1 set boring rods A quantity of jarrah timber, sawn 2 malleable iron cylinders for mixing concrete—quite new 12 feet of 3£iu. shafting, with two four feet pulleys S feet of 2-in do with 2 fourteen-inch do 1 2-feet 6-in driving pulley Trucks, waggons, wheelbarrows, quarry tools, chains, pumps, pulleys, screwjacks, saws &c &c &c Also—--10 railway waggons with wheels, and 3 do without wheels, as they now lie on the reclaimed ground, top of Rattray-street Jetty. Dunedin Terms at Sale, Public Notices. NEW ZEALAND TRAMWAYS. FOXTON TO PALMERSTON. NOTICE ! TENDERS for the construction of about 21 MILES of the above will be received at the Public Works Office, Wellington, until 2 p.ra , on Monday, sth February, 1872. They must be addressed to the Honble. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside “ Tender for Tramway.” The lowest or any Tender will not necessarily he accepted. Plans and specifications may be seen on or about the 22ud January next at the following places : Public Works Office - ■ -Wellington District Engineer’s Office - - Foxton Resident „ • - - Wanganui ~ ~ - - New Plymouth Provincial ~ • • • Napier General Government Agents Office, Auckland Provincial Engineer’s Office - • Nelson District Engineer’s Office - Christchurch ~ • Dunedin By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Assistant Engineer in Chief. Public Works Office. Wellington, 30th Dec. 1871. GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY. SELWYN TO RAKAIA. CONTRACT NO. 2. TENDERS are invited for the formation of the next six miles up to the Eakaia, and for fencing a portion of the same in accordance with plans and specifications, to be seen at the Provincial Public Works Office on and after Monday the lothinst. Tenders addressed to the Resident Minister for the Middle Island, endorsed “ Selwyn to Rakaia ” contract No. 2, will be received at the office of the Resident Minister for the Middle Island at Christchurch, up to 12 at noon on Saturday, the 10th February next, j (Signed) W. B. BRAY, District Engineer, Jan 12, 1572. NEW ZEALAND TRUST AND LOAN COMPANY (LIMITED).

THIS Company is prepared to make advances upon Freehold and other securities, in sums of £4Uoto £20,000, at current rates. J. C. M‘DOWALL, Manager Otago Branch, Manse street, Dunedin. yy ANTED KNOWN, GOOD NEWS TO ALL! A MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to Young and Old !■ R. HUDSON & CO. Have a splendid stock of Cakes, Buns, Biscuits, Confectionery, Bon Bons, &c., &c., which they will sell at greatly reduced prices during the Holidays. R. H. and Go’s celebrated SCOTCH BUNS reduced to Is per lb. SPONGE CAKES larger than ever, Is per doz. The sale of these cakes has reached the enormous quantity of 2,000 per week. We would remind the public that previous to our commencing the retail trade the price of Sponge Cakes was 4s per doz, and Pound Cakes 2s Gd per lb, which we are now selling superior in quality at Is per lb. Principle of Business —large trade, quick returns, and small profits. Confections Is per lb, Choice Cosaques Is 6d per doz. Come forward and support the firm that first gave in these goods value for money in Dunedin. Goods fresh from the Factory every day. Note the address ! Manufactory, DOWLING STREET, adjoining the First Church. Retail Depots, PRINCES STREET and FLEET STREET.