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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 76, 23 May 1879, Page 3

NEAV ZEALAND RAILWAYS. WANGANUI-MANAWATU RAILWAY. WANG AN DI WORSHOPS. Public Works Office, Wellington, 16th May, 1870. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office, until Noon on FRIDAY, the 6th June, 1879, for the above, contract. They must be addressed to the Hon tho Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside " Tender for Wanganui Workshops Contract." Plans and specifications may be seen j at the Public Works Offices, Wanganui, Foxton, and Wellington. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be roceived 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 favour of the Roceivjr- General's . Deposit Account onJy, and not to | bearer or order. The lowest or anj tender not necessarily accepted. . By command. JOHN BLACKKTT, Engineer in Charge, North Island. NEW ZEALAND' RAILWAYS., TO SAWMILLERS AND OTHERS. lOO.OQQ SLEEPERS (TO BE OUT FROM THE GOVERNMENT RESERVE NEAR FEILDING, MANAWATU. Public Works Office, Wellington, l?fch May, 1879. "tIT-RITTEN TENDERS will be W received for cutting TOTARA SLEEPERS, with the right of cutting other timber, out of a Govern* ment reserve of 470 acres, more or less, in the Manawatu District, to which the Government are now construct ; ng a branch railway from the main line, about 155 chains long, for the purposes of this contract. Genes ral conditions, specifications, &c, may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Foxton, Wanganui, and Wellington, ivhere aho tenders are to be lodged, until NOON of Saturday, the 21«* June, 1879, 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 one month, and to be in favour of the Receiver- General's Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or order. The land in this reserve, atter the above con'ract is finished,: will revert to tho Feilding Corporation, who will then have power to deal with it as with their other lands. The attention of intends ing contractors is specially drawn to this circumstance, as they might thus be enabled (o acquire and Bettle on the lanl aftor the completion of their contract. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command. JOHN BLACKETT, Engineer in Charge, North Island > PUBLIC WORKS, MANAWATU. DRAINAGE, COxNTRACT No. 1. rpENDERS will be received at the L Public Works Office, Foxton, up to NOON on MONDAY, the 9th June, 1879, for cutting about three and a half miles of Drain in connection with the Kairanga Survey Block. Plans and Specification may be seen at the railway station. Palmerston North, and the Public Works Office, Foxton, after the 28th May. Tenders must be addressed to the Hon the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside, " Tender for Drainage, Contract No. 1 ." Tenders to be in proper form, and in case of telegraph tenders, a written tender must be lodged at a Public Works office. The lowest, or any tender, not necessarily accepted. JOHN T. STEWART, District Engineer. Public Works Office, Foxton, 20th May, 1879. QUMN'frBIRTHDAY, 1879. EXCURSION UP THE MANAWATU UIVER. r pHE P S. OSPUIiY will run on X an excursion up the Manawatu -River, Next 6ATURDAY,; Queen's Birthday. The "steamer will leave the wharf at 10 a.m., and return at 5 p.m. Passengers will be landed at the Paiaki. Fjares— Adults, Itetum ticket, ss ; Children under 12 years of age, 2s •6d.i ... •,. , n , •' !; IF; GIBSON, | Master.