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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 156, 27 January 1847, Page 2

GOVERNMENT NOTICE. : Engineer Contracts at Wellington. Commissariat Office, Wellington, 21st January, 1847. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Sealed Tenders, in duplicate, will be received at this Office, until Saturday, the €th February next, at-noon, fdr the erection of the undermentioned Buildings; or separate tenders will be received for the execution of any portion of the work of either building, with or without the building materials being furnished by the party contracting: — Ist, Temporary Wooden Barracks and OutBuildings, to be erected near the Gaol in Wellington, according to plans and specifications to be seen 'at the Royal Engineer Office, Welling-

-ton. 2d, A Brick or Stone Powder Magazine and Boundary Wall, to be erected on Mount Coqk, 'close to the present Colonial Magazine, also "according to plans and specifications to be seen

"at the Royal Engineer Office, 3d, Tenders Vrill also be receivefl for furnishing all or any of the undermentioned Building Materials, &c, to be delivered as they may be required by the Executive Engineer at the spot intended for the erection of the Powder Maga-

"zinc; viz. 176,000 Bricks — 1140 bushels of Shell Lime — 153 loads of washed and screened Sand— 23oo •Dutchess Slates — 40 lbs. metal composition Nails — 2 14-inch copper Locks, with screws — 4 lbs. Glue— 77 lbs. rose Nails, 4 inch— 9o lbs. rose Nails, 2J inch— 36 lbs. 3-inch floor brads— 2o Ibs. 2-inch copper Nails — 18 lbs. 2J-inch do. — 6 masons' Trowels — 6 builders' Lines — 4 pairs 5-inch copper butt Hinges, with screws — 6 Mortar Boards — 1200 feet red-pine Timber — 7 lbs. black Paint, ready mixed— 7 lbs. white Paint, do. — 172 lbs. wrought iron, in strap Hinges, Bolts, and Staple to gate— l 4-inch patent •Padlock — 1 10-inch slock Lock — 132 feet lineal Tecl-pine Spars, 16 inch, diameter, in following -lengths, 2of 30 ft., 4of 15 ft.— 4l4 lbs. wrought round British iron 1§ inch, diameter — 40 lbs. 1 J inch round copper rod.

Also scaffoldingfor building — 6 spades for labourers— 6 Hods for do.— 4 Buckets for do.— 2 large Paint-Brushes^ — >1 10-feet masons' Level — 1 barrel of Coal Tar— l 20-feet ladder— 334 cubic yards of excavation for foundations -of Magazine— l33B do. do. do. Boundary Wall— 2 Wells' excavation, 3| feet diam. and 27 feet deep.

Each Tender must be marked on the envelope, " Tender for Engineer Services, 11 and must be accompanied by a written statement of two persons, expressing their willingness, in the event of the tender being accepted, to become bound for the "due fulfilment of the Coutract, the penalty of the bond being equal to half the sum required for the performance of the engagement. •'G. D. Lardwer, D. A. C.-G.

PUBLIC AUCTION. MESSRS. JAMES SMITH & CO.

Will Sell by Auction,

AT THEIR STORES, Lambton Quay, On THURSDAY next, The 28th Inst., The following

MERCHANDIZE,

PER LATE ARRIVALS, VIZ:— Flour, Tea, Sugar Coffee, Wheat Mills Sickles, Sythes Camp Ovens, Frying Pans Grindstones Foolscap, Post and Wrapping Paper Sole Leather Bazils and Kangaroo Skins Soda, Sperm Candles Pearl Barley, Split Peas Dark and Navy Blue Printt Unbleached Calicoes Mouslin de Lame Dresses Colonial Cheese Moleskin and Doeskin Trousers Hobart Town Ale in hhds., Cigars. 5 tons Sperm Oil, ex Superior. ALSO, 8 bales fine New Plymouth Wool, ex Carbon. Sale to commence at one o'clock. Wellington, Jan. 27, 1847.

SALE OF FURNITURE, &c.

THE SALE OF FURNITURE, &c, advertised to take place at Mr. Hanson's late residence, is postponed until MONDAY, the Ist Feb., At Mr. Waitt's Store, Te Aro.

The various goods for Sale can be seen 4t Mr, Waitt's the day previous to the Sale. , Custom House Court, 27th January, 1846.

cook wanted. WANTED A COOK who can make Bread, and who understands the Management of a Dairy. Apply to Mrs. Chapman, Karon. Or, in the first instance, to Mr. Strang at the Court-house. January 27, 1847. '

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