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New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 270, 30 December 1848, Page 4

CONTRACTS FOR COLONIAL SERVICE FOR 1849.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, December 21th, 1848. rTpENDERS will be received at this office, I until noon ou Wednesday, the 10th January, 1849, for furnishing for the Colonial Service the undermentioned supplies, in such quantities, as may be' required during the six months ending the 30th June, 1849, upon the conditions hereinafter specified. SADDLERY, &c. — Breechings, each ; brushes, water, each ; ditto, body, each ; collars, horse, each ; combs, curry, each ; ditto, mane, each ; grease, cart, per lb.; harness, shaft, per set ; ditto, leading, per set ; hames, per pair ; head stalls, each ; saddles, cart, each ; tar, per gallon. IRONMONGER V— Axes, carpenters', each ; ditto, pick, each; brads, flooring, per lb.; hammers, stone, steeled, each; hooks, fern, each j hinges, butt, 3 in. and 4 in., per pair ; ditto, rising butt, per pair ; ditto, T. per pair ; locks, mortice, each ; ditto, rim, each ; ditto, pad, each ; nails, spike, per lb.; ditto, weatherboard, per lb.; ditto, shingle, per lb.; ditto, paling, per lb.; ditto, copper sheathing, per lb.; rakes, (large for roads) , each ; shovels, each ; spades, each ; screws of sizes, per 100. TIMBER, KAURI — Boards, at per 100 feet; scantling, 4 in. x 3 in., per 100 feet; ditto, 6in. x 3in., per 100 feet ; paling, broad, 5 feet, per 100 ; ditto, narrow, 5 feet, per 100 ; posts and rails, 8 feet, per 100. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES— BIocks, j single and double, per inch ; bricks, per 1000 ; brooms, hair, each ; brushes, scrubbing, each ; buckets, water, each; bunting, red, white, yellow, blue, per yard ; canvas of sizes, per bolt ; cans, hand, each ; copper sheathing, per lb.; glue, per lb.-, lime, per bushel ; oars, per foot ; oil, black, linseed, and boiled, per gallon; paint, black, green, yellow, blue and white lead, perlb ; rope of sizes, per cwt.; tar, coal, per gallon ; twine, sail, perlb.; wheel-barrows, each ; whiting, per lb. conditions : Samples of the various articles will have to "be submitted for inspection. The contractors will be required to deliver the different supplies from time to time, at such places, and in such quantities, as may be indicated by the Colonial Secretary. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any of the tenders sent in. Payment for any of the above supplies will be made at the end of each month. Tenders to be in duplicate, sealed and endorsed, " Tender for Supply of Stores." In the event of a difference of opinion between ths contractor and the officer receiving the supplies, as to the quality, the same is to be decided, in cases where the article is not of a perishable nature, by a board of survey, composed of persons named by the Government, according to the practice of the service. If the board shall decide that the article is not of a proper quality, it must be immediately replaced by the contractor •, failing which, it will be procured by the department requiring it, and the expense charged to the contractor. In cases where the article is of a perishable Mature, or in whichfrom some otherjeause injury would be sustained by waiting for a board of survey, the head of the department^ officer in charge for whom the supplies are to be received, shall have power to reject such article or articles as are of inferior quality to the samples approved, an 1 to purchase others at the expense of the contractor. The tenders to contain the names of the tenderers and their places of residence at length, and to be accompanied by a letter signed by two respectable sureties, engaging to become bound in a penalty of £100 for the due fulfilment of the contract, if the tender be accepted. By His Excellency's command, Andrew Sinclair, Colonial Secretary.

"ROYAL HOTEL," HOWICK. rpHE Undersigned having completed the -1 above Hotel, begs to inform Gentlemen and other persons visiting that settlement, (or Town ! ! !) that they can have Luncheons, Dinners, &c, prepared on the shortest notice ; they can also be supplied with the choicest Wines and Spirits, as well as good Beds. Stabling for Horses if required. E. Lewis. Howick, Dec. 23, 1848.

WANGARI STONE LIME FOR Sale at the Depot, Lower Queen Street, At Is. 9d. per Bushel. Wm. Mclntosh, Agent. October 10, 184.8.

EDUCATION. nHHE Pupils of Mrs. Wakefield's EstablishJL ment, will resume their studies, on Monday, the Bth of January, 1849. Princes-street, Auckland.