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Evening Star, Issue 3486, 25 April 1874, Page 1

WANTED. WANTED Known—Freehold Homes for workingmen. Quarter-acre sections, 15 minutes from Post Office, from Ll6, payable by instalments. Apply W. Hooper, Land Agent. WANTED to Sell, Buggies, Express Waggons, Salisbury, Whitechapel, and ordinary Spring Carts. Carriages of every description made to order. Carver and Co,, George street, Dunedin. (Extract from New Zealand Gazette, April ISSUE OF £50,000 NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT DEBENTURES UNDER “THE WESTLAND LOAN ACT, 1873.” Thousand Pounds New Zealand Government Debentures, issued under the Act of the Legislature of the Colony, entitled “The Westland Loan Act, 1873.” By the Act above cited, the principal sum to be raised, and the interest thereon, are charged on the Consolidated Revenue of the Colony; a special block of land of 250,000 acres in ’extent being set apart as security to the Colony for the amount to be raised. TENDERS. R. 9, 1874.) Wellington, 9th April, 1874. f I IENDERS are invited for th« nnroliooo Treasury,

The leaders will be received and the Debentures issued subject to the under-men-tioned conditions:— 1. The Debentures will be payable to bearer, and will be issued in sums of not less than One Hundred Pounds each, 2. The Debentures will bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, payable half-yearly, on the 15th day of April and the 15th day of . October in each year, at the Treasury at Wellington, or at any Branch of New Zealand in New Zealand, on notice given at the Treasure one month before the due date. 3, The principal sum will be payable on the 15th day of April, 1894, at the Treasury at Wellington, or at any Branch of the Bank of New Zealand in New Zealand, at the option of the holder, six months’ notice being required, previous to maturity, of the place at which payment is desired. 4, Tenders will be opened at the Treasury at Wellington, at noon, on Friday, the Ist day of May next, in the presence of such of the tenderers as desire to be present—the minimum price under seal being first placed on the table. In the event of equal tenders being received for a sum in excess of the issue, a, pro rata distribution will be made. 6, The amount tendered for must be paid at the Treasury at Wellington as under Five per cent, accompanying application ; the balance on or before the Bth May. On payment of the balance of purchase money, Debentures signed by the agents appointed under the Act will be forwarded, at the risk of the Government, to purchasers or their nominees.

Half per cent, brokerage will be allowed to brokers through whose application sales are effected. Applications by telegraph, received not later than 10 o’clock a.m. on the Ist May, will be accepted, provided they are accompanied by a telegram from the Manager of any Branch or Agency of the Bank of New Zealand notifying that the necessary deposit has been paid into the Bank of New Zealand to the credit of a loan'deposit account. If no allotment be made, the 5 per cent, deposit will be returned in full• and if a portion only of the amount be alloted, the surplus will be applied in payment of the balance. JULIUS VOG* L, Colonial Treasurer. POEM OF TENDER. I hereby tender for £ New Zealand Five per Cent. Debentures, at the price of £ for each £IGO of such Debentures; and I agree to accept the same or any less amount that may be allotted te me, and to pay for them in cash at the Bank of New Zealand (a) on (a) The name of the place at which the purchaser undertakes payment of the balance to be inserted. CITY OP DUNEDIN. TENDERS will be received at the Town Clerk’s office, Manse street, on or before Wednesday, April 29, at 4 p.m,, for the following works, separately : 1. For supplying 2,000 cubic yards of Bluestone Metal, from Lunatic Asylum Quarry. 2. For supplying 4,000 square yards of Sawn Bluestone, from Port Chalmers Quarries. 3. For erecting a Public Pound at St. David street. Specifications at City Surveyor’s Office.

Note.—The conditions of Contract, which provide that, in all cases, the Tenders are to be accompanied with the necessary Cash Deposit, or cheques marked as correct by the the Bank upon which they may be drawn, will be rigidly adhered to by the Council. April 22, 1874. J. M, MASSEY, Town Clerk. IMMIGRANTS COTTAGES. TENDERS will be received at the Office of Secretary for Works until the 7th May at nobn, for Timber Cottages at Greyton and Waihola, contract No. 938. Plans and specifications will be found at Schoolhouse, Grey ton and Waihela, and Police Station, Tokomairiro, on and after Saturday. 25th April. HORACE BASTINGS, Secretary for Works,