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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 260, 9 November 1878, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF COAL. Commissioner for Railways Office, Christchurch, 30th Oct., 1878. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 27th NOVEMBER, 1 878, for the Supply and Delivery of Coal or Coke from the Ist Jan. to 81st Dec, 1879.. to the railways at Nelson, Pieton, Lyttelton. Port Chalmers, and the Bluff. I Tenders to be addressed to the Commissioner for Kailwaya, Chrietchurch. and marked outside " Tender for Coal." Specifications can be seen, and forms of tender obtained at the offices oi the Hailway Managers at Wellington, Nelson, P'cton, Weßtport, and Greymouth, and of the Locomotive Engineers at Christchurcb, Danedin, and Invercargill. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. WM. CONYERS, 8709— 8a Commissioner of Railways, HEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. SUPPLY AND~DELIVERY OF STORES. Commiseloner for Railways Office, Christchurch, Oct. 80, 1878. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this Office up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 27th NOVEMBER, 1878, for the Supply and Delivery of Stores for New Zealand Railways, Middle Island, from tha Ist day of January to the 3 1st day of December, 1879, at Nelson, Christchurch, Dnnedin, and Invercargill. Tenders to be addres ed to the Commissioner for Railways, Christchurch, and to be marked outßide '• Tender for Storee." Specifications can be seen and forms of tender obtained at the Railway Managers' Officei at Wellington, Nelson, Chriatchurch. Dunedin, and Invercargill. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted, WM. CONYEBS. 3708-8a CommisßioDer for Railways. CLOSING. Ballarat Gallery of Paintings. GRAND ART UNION. 20,000 TICKETS, AT £1 EACH--100 PRIZES. £2000 FIRST PRIZE £2000. 2nd prize, £1000 ; 3rd prize, £1000; 4th prize, £1000 ; sth prize, £1000 ; 6th prize, £1000 ; 7th prize, £500 ; Bth prize, £500 ; 9th prize, £500 } 10th prize, £500; 11th prize, £250; 12th prize, £250; 13th prize, £250 ; 14th prize, £250 ; 15th prize ,£IOO ; 16th prize, £100 ; 17 th prize, £100 ; 18th prize, £100 ; 19th prize, £100 ; 20th prize, £100 ; 21st prize, £100 ; 22nd prize, £100 ; 23rd prize, £100; 21th prize, £100; 25th prize, £50 ;26th prize, £50 ; 27th prize, £50 ; 28th prize, £50; 29th prize, £50; 30th prize, £50 ; 31st prize, £50 , 32nd prize, £50 ; 33rd prize, £50 ; 34th prize, £50. 35th to 60th PRIZES, £20 each; 61at to 100th PRIZES, £10 each. If preferred, Messrs Bridges and Co, gurantee to find purchasers for the pictures at the full amounts for each prize, as stated abore, at the close of the Drawing, Note.— All moneys are deposited in the Bank of Australasia, to the credit of Wm. Bridges and GK E. Finnis, as an Art-Union Trust account for the fulfilment ot the above contract with the Ticket-Holders. The Drawing will take place on Monday, Wh December, 1878, It is to the interest of all concerned that the drawing should take place as eoon as possible ; intending subscribers should not therefore withhold their subscriptions till the last moment, aa from that cause only can there arise any necessity for delay. Tickets and Prospectuees can be obtained from W. M. STAN ION, Sole Agent for Nelson. "The History of the Sea." A BOOK OF GREAT VALUE, tlfV\BE mSTORY OF THE JL SEA," living in a condensed form the important fact9 of more than a hundred separate works. It is, in fact, an encyclopedia of travel, history, description, and adventure— the records and results of several voyages. Those made by Columbus, Cock, Kane, and Hall, are but samples of the hundreds thoroughly treated. Every climate and land, with its products — every people, with their religious superstitioDß and character, are reviewed in the work scientifically. It also describes the distribution of rainfall, ocean currents, with tbeir infiWce on climate and lire ; and one of its principle features is the great progress of navigation, trade and commerce of each country, shipbuilding, dredging, and deep sea sounding. The whole is embellished with nearly 300 engravings, taken by artists in the regions to which they relate. The work is thoroughly indexed and arranged, so as to make it a