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Evening Star, Issue 3085, 8 January 1873, Page 3

Lata Advertisements. HARBOUR STEAM COMPANY AGENTS PRETTY .1 ' VB, s.s., for TIMARU and LYT I'EI/I'ON, on Friday, Itlfch January. SAMSON, ]) s , for OAMARU, on Friday, lOtli January. Passengers at 6.30 a.m. Cargo till 4 p. m. Thursday, Taranaki, s.s., for lyttelton, WELLINGTON, PIOTON, NELSON, TARANAKI, and MANUKAU (transhipping cargo and passengers for Wanganui and West Coast Ports), will leave Port Chalmers at 2 o’clock on Monday, January 13th. Beautiful star, s.s., for timaru, AKAROA, and LYTTELTON, on Tuesday, 14th January. Offices, Harbour Chambers. WANTED Known—Howell and Bay’s j Art Union Prizes, positively drawn 1 10th inst., Lower Hall, Athenamm, 7 p.m. WANTED, a General Servant. Victorian Butchery, Princes street south. PREPARATORY SCHOOL, Fillcul street, conducted by Mrs and Miss Chapman. School duties will be resumed on Monday, 13tb inst. MEETINGS. WEEK OP PRAYER. MEETING this evening (Wednesday) in in the Baptist Church. Subject : Prayer for families ; for sons and daughters of Christian parents ; for a blessing on home influence, and on the services and ordinances of the Church of Cod; for Schools, Colleges, and Universities; for children atsea or in foreign lands ; for young men in business and professions ; for servants ; a r .d for all in sickness and tribulation. To-morrow (Thursday) in Knox Church. Service each evening at half-past seven o’clock. ■ JAMES COPLAND, Secretary.

TENDERS NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. WELLINGTON A HUTT RAILWAYS. Public Works Office, Wellington, December 17, 1872, TENDERS will be Deceived at this Office until Friday, 31st January, 1873. For the Construction of about Six Miles of the above Railway, being the Hutt Contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside. “Tender, Hutt Contract.” Plans and specifications may be seen at this office on and after Monday, 23rd inst. The lowest, or any tender, will not necessarily be accepted. JOHN BRACKETT, Assistant- Eugineer-in- Chief. MB NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TENDERS will be received at this Office until Wednesday, 15th of January, 1873, for the supply and delivery of 150,000 bleepers for the Canterbury Railways, consisting of Totara, Jarrah, Matai (Black Pine), or Puriri. No Tender to be for less than 10,000 Sleepers Specifications may now he seen at the Public Works Offices, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Auckland. Tenders to be addressed to the Hon. Minister for Works, Wellington, and to be marked outside “Tender for Sleepers. By command. JOHN CARRDTHERS, Engineer-in-Chief. JOHN KNOWLES, U.S.P.W. Public Works Office, Wellington, 26th Nov., 1872. m* NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS, &c. Public Works Office, Wellington, December 7, 1872, TENDERS will be received at this Office until Monday, the 27th January, for the Erection of Railway Bridges over the Rivers Ashley and Ashburton, in separate contracts. They must be addressed to the Hon. Minister for Public Works, and marked outside “'i enders for — — ©ridge,” the name being filled ifl,. Flaps and specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Christchurch and 1 Wellington. '1 he lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Assistant Engineer-in-Uhief. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS IN REFERENCE TO THE ABOVE. THE Ashburton Bridge will, at tRe in-, stance of the Provincial Government of Canterbury, be for Combined Road and Railway Traffic, instead of as a Railway Bridge. The plans and specifications have therefore been altered aceord’ngly. JOHN BLACKETT, Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. RAKAIA AND ASHBURTON RAILWAY.

l!.\K.m TO ASHBURTON. Public Works Office, Wellington, December 11, 1872. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until Wednesday, 15th .January, for the construction of the above railway. They must be addressed to the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside ‘‘Tender for Railway, Rakaia to Ashburton.” Plans and Specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Christchurch, aud Wellington. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Assist. -Engineer-in-Chief, QUEEN’S THEATRE. Applications for renting shop and VESTIBULE—jointly or separately—will be received at my office till Thursday, the 9th inst., at 5 p.m. WILL S. DOUGLAS, Secretary. TENDERS Wanted till Thursday, 9th inst., for small Additions to wooden house, Great King street.—David Ross, Architect.