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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 46, 23 February 1874, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. NELSON AND FOXHILL. NELSON CONTRACT. Public Works Office, WelUngton, February 7, 1874. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this Office, up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, llth March, 1874, for the above CONTRACT, the length being FIVE MILES 49 70 CHAINS. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minxstkr for Public Wobks, Wellington, and marked outside, " Tender for Nelson Con- ' trat." Plans and specifications may be seen at this Office, and at tbe Public Works pffice, Nelson. TELEGRAPHIC TENDERS, similarly addressed and marked, will be reoeived if presented at any Telegraph OfSce 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. The lowest or any Tender will not necessarily te accepted* By command, JOHN BLACKETT, 895 Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. SLEEPERS. Public Works Office, Wellington, January 27, 1874. TENDERS will be received at this Office, up to NO*>N of WEDNESDAY, the 4th of Maroh, 1874, for the SUPPLY and DELIVERY of about 90.000 RAILWAY SLEEPERS, viz., 50,000 f>r the Winton and Kingston Line, snd 40,000 for the Westport and Mount Rochfort Line. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister por Public Works, and marked outside, '* Tender for bleepirs." Specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Wellington, Auckland, Foxton, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invereargill. TELEGRAPHIC TENDER?, similarly addressed and marked, will be received, if presented at any Telegraph Office by NOON of the same date : Provided tbat Written Tenders in due form are lodged at a District or Resident Engineer's Office by the same hour. No Tender to be for less than 5,000 Sleepers; and the lowest or any Tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, 396 Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. JUST PUBLISHED—PRICE, 1/- . LUCAS'S . NelsonAlianac AND YEAE-BOOK FOR 1 B_7 4 . A Small Sheet Almanac, suitable for Offlceß, is issued with the Book. The very large and increasing circulation this Almanac has obtained is a substantial proof of its value. No house should be without one. OAK BE OBTAINED IN Bridge-street The Publishers Trafalgar* street ... J. Hounsell „ ... ... 11. D, Jackson Waimea Road W. Walker „ ... ... F, J. Hingston „ W. Patterson Tbe Wood J. Heller Haven Road G. Adam The Port ... W. Akersten „ B Franzen „ W. Rowell Stoke A. W. Barnett Richmond ... ... T. R. Hodder & Co „ E. Dartnall Hope F. J. Hingston Appleby J. P. Horn Waimea West J. Palmer „ ... ... L. Dron Spring Grove ... * ... J. Rose „ W. Patterson Wakefleld E. Hooper „ W. Patterson „ W. Painton Foxhill P K. Watty Montere ... ... H. Benseman Ngatimoti , ... G. Young Motueka S, Hone „ J. Myers „ S. Buchholz „ ; J. Wilkie Riwaka S. Stone Takaka W. Page H. Abbott Waitapu J. Reilly Collingwood W. C. Kiley „ J. D. Brace Slateford J. G. Lash Central Buller J. Grove. Bleuheim W. Macey Uenwicktown ... ... T. O'Sullivan Gibsontown ... ... J. Gibson Picton A. T. Card „ ... ... ... C Harling Havelock ... ... ... Mills Brothers And the various Booksellers on the West ( oast Goldfields. ITS CONTENTS COMPRISE— The Calendar — Diary — Garden Calendar — Farming Operations — • Statistics — Itinerary — Law Items — Lighthouse Dues — Rates of Pilotage — Mail Routes — Port Signals — Postal Information— Sailing "Directions ior the Middle Island — Stamp Duties — Tariff — Telegraphic Charges — Tide Bours and Ranges— Compass Variations— Useful Tables —Principal Events— Cattle Trespass Act — Eclipses — Directory— Wharfage Regulations —Weather Table— Business Addresses — Land Transfer Act— Trade Advertisements— and a variety of useful information for all, [Extract from Letts, Sons, and Co.'s Monthly Circular, April, 1873.] "The Nelson Almanac and Year Book for 1873; Ndson, N.Z., R. Lucas and Son. "It is a clear sign oi pi ogress in a Colony when year after year its Almanacs and Hanubooks increaEe in size, and seem to brim over with useful matter. Very full information is given in the Nelson Year Book concerning the Customs tariff and regulations, population, mail routes, Government officials, law news, farming operations, 1 cai signals, and sailing directions, &c. The book doubtless is well appreciated in that part of New Zealand, where it is intended more especially I to circulate, and is also likely to prove of service to merchants and others in the old country taking an interest in the Colony." '