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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 622, 23 October 1858, Page 3

FOR SALE IN LYTTELTON. rr OWN SECTIONS No. 89 and 90, situate •^ in Exeter Street. To be sold in small blocks for the convenience of; purchasers. A- deposit of 20. .por cent, will be required on the purchase, money; with from seven to ten years' credit for the remainder. For further particulars apply to ¥. NOBLE CAMPBELL & CO. Oxford St., -Lytiulloij, Oct. 1, 185>: ■ PUBLIC NOTICE. PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY -TO WIT : PORT -VICTORr A DISTRICT. WH ERE AS a Writ under the hnti d of- Wiiliiim S'ifton Moorhouse, Esq., Superintendent of the said Province, bearing date the 12::h day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and .iifty-eigl.t, hat.h been directed to me, Frederick •Noble Cain.pU'll, Esq., as .Returning Officer for the Port Victoria District, in I he said L'rovince, 'requiring and commanding me ,to .cause to Ivi elected by and from-the voters-duly (uialitift! for that pui'.pnse, freely and itulitforently. and in manner and form by law prescribed, omv pcr.-oi. "to serve, as a member of the Provincial Council 'for'the Port Victoria District, in pbice of Marl* Sprot, Esq., resigned. Now, therefore, I, Hie said Frederick Noble Campbell, Returning '..Officer for the said District, do hereby, in pursuance of the said recited'writ, give no ;ce, thai a public .meeting, of the electors of the .said Disii-iot will-be holtlen at-the Town Kail, Lytt ell on, on •'■ Friday, the 29r.h day of October inst.. at noon, for the purpose of nomimitii'."■one '■'person-to serve as a inomber of the Provincial Council for the said District, and in the event of a poll beingidemanded for the candidates'or. any of them, such polling shall take place oil Saturday, the 30th dny of October inst., at the Police Otrice, LyUflton. The voting to commence at any time after nine o'clock n.m.,.0f the said daj-, and to close at 4 o'clock-p.m. of the same day. FREDERICK InOBLID CAMPBELL, Returning Officer. Lyttelton, Get.-14; 1858. WAIMAKAHIRI BHIDGE. NOTICE TO ENGINEERS, ARCHITECTS, AND BUILDERS. rflll E Provincial Government invite Designs for Building:".-a Bridge over the Kiver-■ Waimakariri, seven miles from Christchurch. ■ ...... Each Design -must be accompanied by a detnUed estimate of the cost-.of .construction, which must not exceed twelve thousand pounds. Fit'ty pounds will be paid for the best, and twenty-five pounds for the second best design. The designs to become the property of the Provincial Government. The whole of the designs- received will br; submitted fcp Colonel-Mould, Consultirig Engineer to the Colony, by whose judgment the Provincial Government will be guided in their award. Tlie Provincial Engineer's designs will be submitted- to Colonel Mould with' the rest, out will not be admitted-to the competition for the premiums. Designs must be sent in not later than January 1, 1859, addressed to the Provincial Secretary, Government Offices, Christchurch, and endorsed " Design for Waimakariri Bridge." - The rejected designs will be returned to their owners as soon as possible after the Provincial Government have made their award. , .. ■ ■ j INSTRUCTIONS TO COMPETITORS. ■ The width of the River is 1290 feet from bank to bank. The ground on each side of the River is flat for some distance, and. the banks s»ve on a level with the line of the highest freshes. . . : . Tho ordinary water line is eight feet, and th>deepest part of the channel twelve feet below the banks. > The bottom of the River is a shifting bed of shinole aba depth of from lour to twelve feet below the banks, resting on clay at a further depth of four feet and upwards. The soil. of.the banks is sand and light loom. The material of the Bridge is left to the discretion of competitors. Competitors will attend especially to the following points : — Risk-of scouring the foundations. Danger from drift timbw in freshes. Difficulty of securing the banks. Simplicity of.construction. Facility of repairs. Economy in'cost. ' Any further infonnatioji may be obtained on application' to,the •' Provincial ■.Engineer, at. the office of Public Works, Ohristohui-ch. B. DORSON, ■ . . ;'Provincial Engineer. ■ Office of Public Worl<s,' Sept. 16,1858. . ~~: : FOR SALE, tTown Section in the heart of Christ- . church. • ■ fi a-res Kural Land with the house and iniproveinentst.hereon, adjoining the PjMiamii road, about 2 miles from Christchurch. For particulars, apply to MR. LOXGDEX.^ . SHEEP FOll SALE. Q & 4: toothed owos, t!:*]ivo:--)hlo in tlic ■.«./ n«i{.»-hi)i)i!rhoo!i of Cl'Hsichurch, \\ FJiIIIiUARY and MAROJI rfRXT. J. LONUDKX.