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may be required during the six months commencing Ist January, 1 850, 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. IRONMONGERY— Axes,carpenters', each ; ditto, pick, each ; brads, flooring, per lb.; hammers, stone, steeled, each ; hooks, fern, each ; hinges, butt, 3 in. and 4 in., per pair ; ditto rising butt, per pair, ; dilto 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.; dilto, copper sheathing, per lb.; rakes (large, for roads) , each ; shovels, each ; spades, each ; screws of sizes, per 100. TIMBER, KAURl— Boards, at per 100 feet; scantling, 4 in. by 3 in., per 100 feet; ditto, 6 in., 3 in., 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. 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; carts, hand, each j 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, per lb.; rope of sizes, per cwt.; tar, coal, per gallon ; twine, sail per lb.; 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 lime, 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 the 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 peiishable 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 nature, or in which from some other cause injury would be sustained by waiting for a board of survey, the head of the department or officer in charge for whom the supplies are to be received, shall have power to reject any article of quality inferior to the approved sample, and 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.

STATIONERY. Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, Dec. 3rd, 1849. HPIENDERS in duplicate will be received at -■■ this office, until noon on Tuesday, the 18th inst., for the supply of such quantities of the undermentioned articles of Stationery as may be required for the Public Service during the six months commencing the Ist of January, 1850. Books, demy . . at per quire Ditto, foolscap, .ditto Envelopes, large foolscap and small.. per 100 Ink, black . . at per pint " red., ditto " Indian . . at per stick ludian Rubber, .at per lb. Inkstands, pewter, .each Paper, Foolscap, Ist quality, .at per ream " ditto, 2nd quality . . ditto " dttto, ruled .. ditto " Letter . . at per ream " Note . . ditto " Cartridge . . at per quire " Demy ruled, .ditto " Demy plain . . ditto <k Blotting .. ditto Parchment . . at per skin Pencils, drawing, .at per dozen Pens, magnum bonum . . at per gross Pins, .at per ounce Quills.. at per 100 Ribbon, green silk, .at per roll of 12 yards Rulers, ebony, .at per inch Sealing Wax. .at per lb. Tape, red . . at per dozen pieces Twine, .at per lb. Wafers . . at per ounce Wafer Stamps . . each.