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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 52, 2 March 1874, Page 4

Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. NELSON AND FOXHILL. NELSON CONTRACT. Public Works Office, Wellington, February 7, 1874. -TT7Rn*TEN TENDERS will be received 'VV a t 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 tho Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington^ and marked outside, ■* Tender for Nelson Con T ■trar*t."- : . • : Plans and specifications may be seen at this Office, and at the Public Works Office^ Nelscn. TELEGRAPHIC TENDERS, similarly adidressed and marked, will be received, if pre r sented 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 ( nice by the same hour. The lowest or any Tender will not neces- !• sarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, 395 Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. SLEEPERS. Public Works Office, Wellington, January 27, 1874. TENDERS will jbe received at this Office, up to NOON of WEDNESDAY, the 4th of March, 1874, for the SUPPLY and DELIVERY of about 90.000 RAILWAY SLEEPEBS, viz., 50,000 for the Wiriton and . Kingston Line, and 40,000 for tho Westport and Mount Rochfort Line. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside, *' Tender for Sleepers." Specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Weumsto-Q. Auckland, Foxton •Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, . Hokitika, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill. : TELEGRAPHIC TENDERS, similarly addressed aud 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 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 neces- ; sarily be accepted.. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, 396 Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. Publications. JUST PUBLISHED— PRICE, 1/LUCAS'S NelsonAlmanac AND "STEAJR-BOOK FOR 1 B_7 4 . . A Small Sheet Almanac, suitable for Offices, 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. CAN BE OBTAINED IN Bridge-street ... ... The Publishers Trafalgar-Btreet ... J. Hounsell „ H. D, Jackson Waimea Road... ... .W. Walter j * „ ' Fi' J. Hingston' •„ W. Patterson The Wood J. Hefler Haven Road' ... ... G.Adam The Port .**. ... ... W. Akersten , „ ... ... B Franzen ! „ ... ... ... W. Rowell ;Stoke ... ... ... A. W. Barnett! .Richmond T. R. Hodder & Cp. „ i E. Dartnall. Hope F.- J. Hingston Appleby J. P. Horn Waimea West ... ... J. Palmer ... . „ L. Dron Spring Grove ... ... J. Rose W. Patterson Wakefield E. Hooper „ W. Patterson „ W. Painton Foxhill P. K. Watty ' Moutere ... ... H. Benseman Ngatimoti , G. Young Motueka S, Stone „ J. Myers „ S. Buchbolz „ ... J. Wilkie Riwaka S.' Stone Takaka W.Page „ ... H. Abbott Waitapu : J. Reilly Collingwood ... ,„ W. C. Riley „ J. D. Brace Slateford ... ... J. G. Lash Central Buller J. Grove. Blenheim W. Macey Renwicktown T. O'Sullivan Gibsontown ... ... J. Gibson Picton A. T. Card „ „ C. Harling Havelock... Mills Brothers And the various Booksellers on the West Coast Goldfields. ITS CONTENTS COMPKI6E — The Calendar — Diary —■ Garden Calendar — Farming Operations — Statistics — Itinerary — Law Items — Lighthouse Dues — Rates ' of Pilotage-— Mail Routes — Port Signals — Postal Information — Sailing Directions for the Middle Island — Stamp Duties — Tariff — Telegraphic Charges — Tide . Hours, and Ranges— CompaßS 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 Col's Monthly Circular, April, 1873.] "The Nelson Almanac and Year Book for 1873; Nelson, N.Z., R. Luc/as and Son. "It is .a clear sign of progress in a Colony when year after year its, Almanacs and Handbooks increase 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, local signals,- ' and sailing directions, &c. The book doubtless is well appreciated in that part of New Zealand, where it is intended more especially - to circulate, and is aiso likely to prove of service to merchants and others in the old • country taking an interest in the Colony."