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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1078, 11 December 1877, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. NAPIER-MANAWATU RAILWAY. PAPATU BRIDGE CONTRACT. Public Works Office, Wellington, 14th November, 1877. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received t » at this office up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd January, IS7B, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside "Tender for Papatu Bridge Contract, Permanent Way." Plans and specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, Foxton, Wellington, Dunedin, Invercargill, the Survey Office, Nelson, and at the Post Office, Napier. Telegraphic tenders similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any Telegraph Office by NOON of the same date, provided that written tenders in due form are lodged at a District or Resident Engineer's Office by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some Bank in the town where the tender is lodged ; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for twenty-one days, and to be in favor of the Receiver-General's Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN CARRUTHERS, Engineer-in-Chief. N.B.—Plans for this contract can be purchased at the above offices. 7178 HE MISSES WHITTINGTON, Opposite J. Ballantyne & Co.'s, And next door but one to the " Press" Office, are now prepared to SUPPLY UNDERCLOTHING Of every description on the shortest notice, and at prices to defy competition. Every article made on the premises. All orders punctually attended to. 6913 THE NEW ZEALAND Insurance Company. Established 1869. Capital Paid-up Capital ... £1,000,000 „. £300,000 Every description of Fire and Marine Inj nranoe at current rates. DAVID CRAIG, Hereford street. SOUTH BEITISH EIRE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capital-ONE MILLION STERLING Paid-up Capital, £IOO,OOO. Reserve Fund, £58,750. THE above Company offers UNDOUBTED SECURITY to Insurers, having a large, wealthy, and influential proprietary resident in New Zealand. All the Company's FUNDS are invested in the Colony. A special feature of the SOUTH BRITISH is the prompt and liberal settlement of claims. It has thus paid for lossess in four years £153,4=37. FIRE AND MARINE BISKS Taken at LOWEST CURRENT RATES. For proposal forms, &c, apply t J. DRUMMOND MACPHERSON, 6660 Manager, Cash el street WALLSEND COALS iO PER TON M DELIVERED IN TOWN. HHE WALLSEND COAL MINING L COMPANY LIMITED Having now Opened their New Coalpits, are prepared to supply the public with the BEST COLONIAL HOUSEHOLD AND STEAM COAL Ever yet brought into the market. Orders left at the Yard in Tuam street will receive prompt attention. JOSEPH S. SHEATH, Manager, WALLSEND COAL MINING COMPANY LIMITED. 6515