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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 62, 13 December 1845, Page 2

MILITARY CONTRACTS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GI^EN, that Sealed Tenders will be received by the^ undermined until Tuesday tMfe23d in«t., at'rfoon, for the purpose of .upplying the Commissariat Department with the undermentioned -.articles for the«use ofouch of Her Majesty's Troops as may 1)e ttationed in the district of Wellington between the Ist January and the 31st March 1844. Rum (West India), at per .Imperial gallon. 'Mould Candles, at per lb. ' The quantityof the articles,ihe«iode of delivery, and the general condition of the contracts, will be the same as those published in the several numbers of theW«u> Zealand Spectator newspaper for February last. Eat h Tender must be marked on the envelope,

" Trader for Supplies." Forms of tender, «nd any further information, may be obtained by application to the undersigned. G. D. Lardner, D. A. C. G. • Cdinmi&a'riat, Wellington, 10th December 1846.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

/ ABIUVAI.S. December 6.— Schooner J!V«fe/e,'6tons, Cetnina, from Kapiti, with oil and bone. Decetuber B'.— Cutter Ann and Sarah, 28 tons, Sinclair, from Manawam. December 9.— Cutter Soyai. William, 43 tons, Lorett, from rfobart Town. Passengers, T. , Jonss, A. Pascott. December 12.— Schooner Sarah Jane, -29 tons, Swarm, from Manawatu.

' DEPARTURES. "December 9. — Brigantine / don't know, 75 tons, Thompson, for Auckland.

The cutter Lively, which sailed from Nelson on the 24th November, ' for Auckland, with a cargo of ale, put back to the north-entrance of the Sound, with the loss of her 1 bowsprit. Extract of a letter from Sydney, 3rd mstant, received by a mercantile house in Launceston: — * The Garland Grow, chartered and loaded last leaaon for" Liverpool, by Buchanan and Son, was 158 days out at last advices from England, aud is supposed to be lost by the Manganese Ore having ignited, either by contact with tallow, wool, -or water. Ships here loading, are discharging manganese for tear of ignition, in consequence of the rumour. — Lawcetton Examiner. Extract of a -private letter received from Hobart Town, dated Nov. 25, 1845. •• A fine ship, ~ to D. Dunbar and Sons, called the Hamilie*, apparently 7<)o or 800 tons, came into port this morning, 103 days from London, with artillery, said to be for New Zealand, although • I cannot get-information of particulars. She is an unexpected arrival, I believe, and brings no mail; - * ' Amongst the cargo of the Biphinttone, the veaftfel which conveyed Governor Grey, from Ade-< 0 laide, N?e observe' the following- munitions of war .—'3 so. — '350 carbines, 35 ) bayonets, 350 scabiards, 150,000-pereussion caps, 110 beta, pouch ; 5 moulds, bullet brass ;H0 plates, bayonet belt, •HO slinps, carbine ; 360 nipples, s*l|> pouches, «black;Uo belts, bayonet. 1 JThis looks like a determination on the part of *he British Government to prosecute the war New. Zealand, -if necessary. — ■Launcefton ArUvtrtiter, November 13, sailed the brig i£otti«ClB2 tons, Milton matter, for New Zealand. Passengers — SCapt; Grant and Lady, Lieut. Chalmers, Mr. Paterson, Mr. Homer, Br. M Donald, and 408 rank and "file, ton-women, *nd- twelve children, nth regiment. The brig Nelson, 200 tons, 'Gapf. M^aren, waa advertised in Hardy's Shipping last, of »he 17th of July, to sail on the 20th of the same month, for Nefson, Wellington, and Auckland; and the boque £nmore,'2Bo tons,' Cnpt. Ellis, to sail on the 10th August,, for Nelson, Wellington. New Plymouth, and Auckland. We ire informed by Capt Lovett, of the Roy*l William, that it was expected that the Helton brig, wfluld either call at Hobart Town or Port Phillip, prev»oui to her coming to Wellington. - The Lady Leigh, which belonged to this Port, has been »oW at Hobart Town, for £1,050. Thcßandicopt,vr*t advertised for N ew Zealand. The cutter Ann and Sarah, saw a large ship in the Straits, bearing for Cloudy Bay, supposed to ibe an English orcolonial whaler.