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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 582, 2 June 1858, Page 7

i LYTTELTON 'd COLONISTS SOCIETY i-VIAND LITERARY INSTITUTION. ON TUESDAYi EVENING, JUNE Bt*h,, MR. E. MILLS will conclude the series of Popular Lectures on ASjTRONOMY, at the Town Hall, at 7 o'clock. : Subjects:—The Calendar, Lord Rosse'a Teleiscbpe, The Constellations, The Milky Way, The Nebulae, Distances of f the Stars, Parallax, Temiporary and Variable Stars, Double Triple Quadruple and Multiple' Stars, Coloured Suns, Conclusion : illustrated by various Models and Dia- ; 'grams. j Members free; Strangers 6d. each. F. E. WRIGHT, Hon. Sec. CORSAIR.' A LL accounts against this vessel are -OL requested to be furnished to the undersigned for liquidation, previous to her departure on her whaling voyage. J. T. PEACOCK & Co. . Lyttelton, May 25,1858. ~VTO satisfactory tender having been reJLj " ceived for the execution, of the works specified in the following advertisements —Notice is hereby given, that the time for the acceptance of tenders is extended to noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd of Jiine. By order of his Honor the Superintendent, T. B. KEELE, For the Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, May 10,1858. NORTH ROAD. The Provincial Government are prepared to receive tenders for the metalling of a portion of the North-r6ad. - Specifications and conditions of contract may be seen on application at the office of Public Works, Christchurch. Tenders must be sent in on or before noon on Wednesday, June 2nd, when parties tendering must be in attendance. -. The Government .will not be bound to accept the lowest or any tender. STONER ROAD.The Provincial Government are prepared to , receive tenders for carting 2,soo.cubic yards of clay to the embankment in Sumner Valley. A specification of the. work may be seen on application' at the Government Offices, Christchurch. Tenders must be sent in on or before noon on Wednesday, June 2nd, when parties tendering must be in. attendance. The Government will not be bound to accept the lowest or .any tender. SUJfrNER ROAD. (The Provincial Government are prepared to receive tenders for sundry works to be done between Evans's Pass, and Sumner Flat. Specifications of the proposed works may be seen at the Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, and the Police Office, Lyttelton. Tenders to be sent addressed to the Provincial Engineer, Office of Public Works, Christchurch, on or before noon on Wednesday, June 2nd. The Government will not be bound to accept the lowest or any tender. E. DOBSON, i Provincial Engineer. i Office of Public Works, Christchurch, May 12., 1858. ' • NOTICE. AKAROA: PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY 7 TO WIT. WHEREAS a Writ under the hand. of William Sefton Moorhouse, Esq., Superintendent of the said Province,bearing date the eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, hath been directed to me; John Watson, Esq., as Returning Officer for the Akaroa District, in the said Province, requiring and, commanding me to cause to be elected by and from the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and indifferently, and in manner and form by law prescribed, one person to serve as a member of of the Provincial Council for the Akaroa District, in place of Thomas Smith Duncan, Esq., resigned. Now, therefore, I, the said John Watson, Esq., Returning Officer for the Akaroa District, do hereby, in pursuance of the said recited Writ, give notice' that a public meeting of the .electors, of the Akaroa District will be holden ; ■ in the 'Court House, hi the Town of Akaroa, oh THURSDAY; the tenth day of June next, at noon, for the purpose of nominating one person to serve as a member of the Provincial Council, for the Akaroa District, and in the event of ~ a poll being demanded for the candidotes or any of them, such polling shall take , place on Friday, the eleventh day of June next, in the Court House at, Akaroa, in the School House at Pigeon Bay, and in the School House at Okain's Bay. The voting to commence at any time after nine o'clock, a.m. of the said day, and to close at four o'clock p.m., of the said day. JOHN WATSON, . Returning Officer. ;. Akaroa, May 13,1858. f ~ ~ /: CHURNS. . 7;' '■'■'";' ON. SALE.—A few large sized American Thermometer churns. * ■ : H; E. ALPORT. | Christchurch, May W, 1858.