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Kumara Times, Issue 2589, 22 December 1884, Page 3

KUMARA SLTJDGE-CHANNEL. DELIVERY OF PAVING-STONE CONTRACT. PAVING CONTRACT. EXTENSION CONTRACT. KEEPING CHANNEL CLEAR CONTRACT. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this Office uutil noon of WEDNESDAY, the 24th December, 1884, for the above Contracts. They are to be marked on the outside, '' Tender for " (here specify which) contract, and addressed to " The Hon. the Minister for Mines, Kuraara." Telegraphic Tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received, if presented at Kumara Telegraph Office by noon of the same date, provided that written tenders are lodged at the Kumara Mines Office by the same hour. Specifications and general conditions may be seen at this office. The lowest or any tender uot necessarily accepted. By command. J. GOW, Manager Sludge-channel. Miues Office, Kumara, 16th December, 1884.

PUBLIC NOTICE UNDER "THE PROPERTY ASSESSMENT ACT, 1879," SECTION 76. NOTICE is hereby given that PRO-PERTY-TAX under "The Property Tax Act, 1884," for the year commencing on the first day of April, one thousaud eight hundred and eightyfour, will be payable as follows : (1.) In respect of the duty of threeeights of a penny, where the amount of such duty shall be under two hundred and fifty pounds, the same shall be paid on the tweuty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four. And where such duty amounts to two hundred and fifty pounds, the same shall be paid on the twenty-second day of December, and the second of such instalments on the second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. (2.) In respect of the duty on fire, marine or guarantee policies issned by any insurance company, the same shall be paid on the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty five. And notice is hereby further given that the places in each district where the said tax shall be paid shall be any Post-office within such district which is also a money-order office, except in the district of Wellington, in which district the tax shall be paid at any such post office as aforesaid, and at the office of the Property Tax Commissioner, at the Government Buildings, Wellington. J. SPERREY, Property-Tax Commissioner. Property-Tax Department, Wellington, 27th November, 1884. SPECIAL NOTICE TO KUMARA PEOPLE. DUTCH AUCTION ON MONDAY, EVENING, DEC. 22nd, A LxIRGE STOCK OP MEN'S AND BOYS' SUITS, BOOTS, DRAPERY OF EVERY KIND, Also, A Large Stock of Fancy Goods. NOTICE TO MINERS AND OTHERS. THE Undersigned having made arrangements wiili Mr George Simmons to niamifiictuif, sell, and protect his patent for ihe manufacturim; of LEATHER HOSE FOR SLUICING PURPOSES, Consignments of Leather suitable are daily expected. N.B.—Agents for Aspinall's Patent Sluicing Ripples, which for gold saving and durability are unequalled by any Ripples in use. JOHN &, MATTHEW DAVIDSON. Kuuiura, April 25, 188-1,