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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 55, 20 April 1878, Page 3

| ~M"EW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. PATEA-MANAWATU RAILWAY. WAITOTARA CONTRACT (FORMATION AND PERMANENT- WAY.) LENGTH ABOUT 12 Mii.es 10 Chaws. Public Works Office, Wellington, 28th March, 1878. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office until NOON on WEDNESDAY, the Bth May, 187& for the above conti'act.: They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Worts, Wellington, and marked outside ■" Tender for Waitotara Contract." Plans and specifications may be seen at the Public Worts Offices, Auckland, New Plymouth, Wanganui, ] Foxton, Christchureh, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Wellington; and at the Chief Surveyor's Office at Nelson, and the Railway Manager's 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 any of the above-named offices by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some bant in the town where the tender is lodged; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as goocLf or twenty-dne days, aud to be in -favour of the Receiver-Gener^rs Deposit Acoourit: only, .and not to hearer or order, The lowest or any te«der will hot necessarily be accepted. By command. JOHN CARRtJTHERS, Engineer-iruChief. N.B. — Plans for this Contract can be purchased at the above offices. IV"EW ZEALAND. RAILWAYS. 50,000 SLEEPERS, WEIiLINGtTON-MASTE.RTO]S[ RAILWAY. Public Works Office, Wellington, 14th March, 1878. WRITTEN TENDERS will be re, ceived,*at-this office until NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 24th April* 18^8, i for the supply and delivery of 30,000 SLEEPERS^ to he delivered at any ! Railway Station on the Wellington and ' Masterton Railway between Wellington 1 and Mastertoß. ' They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for ..Public Works, and marked outside 1 " Tender for Sleepers, WelMng-tonnMas-terton Railway." Specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, , Wanganui, Eo^.ton,, Wellington, and at , the Post Office, Masterton. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any •Telegraph offi.ee by" NOON of the same date* provided th.at written tenders in due form are lodgod at a District or Resident Engineer's Office by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on 1 some bank in the town where the teni der is lodged ; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good ;for one month, and' to- be in favour of i the Rteceiver-.General's Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or order.. Aliternative tenders will be received for ! sa.wn or split sleepers. The lowest or , any teudey wJU not necessarily be ac- , cepted,. ' By command. ! JOHN CARRTJTHERS-, -Engineer-iu,^Chief. : IVKEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. ' ; SL. PPEES'.. Public Works Office,. WelJjngton, 10th. April, IS7». WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 24th April, 1878, for the supply and delivery of 10,000 : SLEEPERS, to be delivered on the line where required between 39< miles 20 chains and 44 miles 30; chains^ for the Wellington - Masterton Railway. IThey must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works,, and marked outside "Tender for Sleepers,. Wellington-Masterton Railway;-. ' ' Specifications, may be seen at the pujblic- 1 Works Offices, Foxton, Wanganui, anjd Wellington,, the Railway Manager's Office* Picton, and the Post Office, Featherston. Telegraphic tenders, sinuv i lar.ly addres.sjed and marked, will be re--1 ceiv.ed if presented at any Telegraph I Office by N.OQN of the same date, provided that wrijtte'i tenders in due form 1 are lodged ' at a- District or- Resident Engineer's offi.ee by the same hour,, and accompanied' by a chequer on some bank; in. the* town where the tender is 'lodged; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for one i month, and to be in favour of the Receiver/JGreneral's Deposit Account only,, and not to,, bearer or order; Alternative 'tenders will be received for saw;n or split sleepers,. The lowest or. any tender will not necessarily be accepted* By command. «. ! JOHN CARRFTHERS, Engineer-inrChief. 'VTOTICE is hereby given, that "it is ■Lt the intention of the Manchester ' Highways Board to make a RATE of ; One Shilling in the pound sterling on ■ the annual value of all rateable property , in the Manchester Highw.ay District, . for the period from the Ist April 1878, \ to- 31st March, 1879, the sa-me to become ; payable on the 6th May, 1878, at the , 'Office of the Board, Fcilding, where the Rate Book will be open for inspection on and after the 20th Apeil, from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. By ordyr of the Board. 11. BOOTH, Secretary.