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New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 694, 8 December 1852, Page 4

Salt Beef at per lb. Baiet at per ]b. Sugar at per lb. Tea ,at per lb. Raisins at per lb. Potatoes at per lb. Rice ...... .at per lb. Coffee ••». at per Ib. Pease , at per bushel. Vinegar at per gallon. Oil (black) at per gallon. Cotton Wick »»at per lb. PROVISIONS FOR HOSPITAL. The aiticles to be delivered at the Hospital, at the expense of the contractor, and to be subject to the approval of the Colonial Surgeon as to quality. Fresh Beef or Mutton Pork Fine Bread Potatoes Tea and Sugar Oatmeal Arrowroot at per lb. Sago Rice Salt Soap Mixed Vegetables Dip* Candles Brandy, Port Wine, and ) at per two Porter J gallons. Milk and Vinegar at per quart. Oil at pel gallon. Straw at per ton of 2,240 lbs. RATIONS FOR GAOL AND LOCK-UP, AND FOR DESTITUTE PERSONS. Gaol — Auckland. Ration No. 1 , at per Ration. " No. 2, " No. 3, Police Lock-up — Auckland. At per Ration. Rations for Destitute Persons, at per Ration. Information respecting the established Rations may be obtained at this office. SADDLIiRY, &c. Breechings, each ; , brushes, water, each j ditto, body, each ; collars, horse, each ; combs, curry, each ; ditto, mane, each ; grease, cart, per lb. ; harness, shaft, per set ; ditto, leading, per set ; haines, per pair,- head-stalls, each ; saddles, cart, each ; tar, per gallon. STATIONERY. Books, demy, ft.-lined, hf -bd. "at per quire. Ditto ditto ditto whole-bd., ditto. Ditto foolscap, ditto hf.-bd., ditto. Ditto ditto ditto whole-bd., ditto. Envelopes, foolscap, per 100. Ditto, letter and no'e, ditto. India rubber, per lb. Inkstands, pewter, sizes, each. Matches, per doz. boxes. Paper, note, at per ream. Pencils, drawing, at per dozen. Pins, at per ounce. Ribbon, green silk, at per roll of 12 yards. Rulers, ebony, at per incb. Sperm Candles, at per lb. Wafers, at per lb. Wafer Stamps, each. TIMBER. Kauri — Hoards, at per 100 feet; scantling, 4 in., by 3 in., per 100 feet; ditto, 6 in., by 3 in., per 100 feet ; paling, bioad 5 fett, per 100 ; ditto, narrow, 5 feet, per 100 j shingles, per 1,000. Puriri Posts and Rails, 8 feet, at per 100. MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. Blocks, single and double, per inch ; bricks, per 1,000 ; brooms, hair, each ; brushes, scrubbing, each ; buckets, water, each ; bunting red, white, yellow, blue, per yard ; canvas of sizes, per bolt ; cart, hand, each ; copper sheathing, per lb\ ; glue, per lb. ; lime, per bushel ; oars B 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 >md shop, per lb. ; wheel-barrows, each ; whiting per lb. Conditions. Samples of the various articles will have to bu 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 *• Tenders for Supply of [name of article.]" 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 praciice of the service. If the Boaid shall decide that the article is not of a proper quality, it must be immediately replaced by the' contractor ; failing uhich/it will be procured by the department requiring it, and the expense charged to ihe contractor. In cases where the article ia 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 thr department or officer in charge for whom the supplies are to be received, shall have power to leject any article of quality inferior to the approved sample, and to purchase others at the expense of the contractor. The tenders (forms of which may be obtained of the Deputy Surveyor-General) to contain the names of the tenderers and their places of residence'^ length, and to he signed by two respectable sureties, engaging to become bound in a penalty of £100 for the fulfilment of the contract, if the tender be accepted. By. His Excellency's command, Andrf.w Sinclair, Colonial Secretary.