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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4158, 18 July 1874, Page 4

Auctions. TUESDAY, 21st JULY. LAND FOE SALE, IN TOWN AND COUNTBY. MR. B. J. DUNCAN is instructed to sell by auction, on Tuesday, 21st July, at his salerooms The following nine Town acres, numbered on the plan of the City of Wellington, will be sold in the following order, viz. : 1. No. 958, with a double frontage to Biddiford street and Bintoul street 2. No. 955.—Double frontages to Stokes street and Adelaide road 3. No. 953.—1 n Adelaide road 4. No. 32.—1 n Epuri Street, with faith-fully-built family residence of eleven rooms, conservatory, stable, and outhouses. 5. No. 713—1 n Wallace Street, with dwellinghouse, kitchen, and outhouse, capital stables for four horses, all erected during past eighteen months. 6. No. 111, in Abel Smith Street, next acre to residence of Ven. Archdeacon Stock, one of, if not the, best building sites unoccupied in Wellington. 7. Nos. 394, 395, 396.—Three acres, with dwellinghouse thereon, in MajoribanksStreet, adjoining one another, will be sold in one block. S. No. 814, in Owen street. The close proximity of this valuable property to the very heart of the City, and its accessibility, renders it particularly interesting to those anxious for a certain and immediate proStable investment as building allotments for which it is decidedly unrivalled. Plans of the above acres may be seen at the auctioneer's office, and the fullest particulars obtained as to the terms and conditions of PALMERSTON. Town Section No. 343, say 1 acre 1 rood, 2J chains frontage to Tramway, and 5 chains to public road. Adjoining to Mr. Heaton's public house. Town Section No. 325, containing 1 acre, 2i chains to public road. Close to the main square. Terms very liberal ■with each lot TUESDAY, 21st JULY. Allotments in the Towns of Palmerston and Fitzherbert, Manawatu. TVTIi. R- J - DUNCAN" is instructed to si "" i_¥l by auction, on Tuesday, the 21st ins . at his sale rooms, 4 allotments in Pabnerston, being parts of Town sections 125, 126, 12S, and 129 18 allotments in Fitzherbert, being Nos. 173 to 177, 181, 184, and 185, 244 to 248, 250 and 255 to 253 on the subdivisional plan of the town. Title under the Land Transfer Act. Also, One acre of land adjoining the residence of the Bev. J. J. P. O'Beilly, Mount Street, Wellington. Plans may be seen at the offices of Benjamin Smith and Co., next the Odd Fellows' : ibton Quay, and at the offiees'of t' - Government Notices TO CONTBACTOBS. Provincial Secretary's Office, Wellington, July 14, 1374. TENDEES will be received at the above office up to Noon of TUESDAY, the 28th instant, for the EEECTION of Twelve COTTAGES upon Reserve Acre No. 12, Adelaide Road, Wellington. Plans and specifications may be seen at 'rovincial Engineer's Office. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. HENRY BUNNY, Provincial Secretary. mo CONTRACTORS. The TELEGRAPH COMMISSIONER is prepared to RECEIVE TENDEES for the SUPPLY and DELIVEEY of FIVE HUNDRED (500) TELEGRAPH POLES, more or less, for a line of Telegraph between the Town of Foxton and the Town of Palmerston North. The poles to be sawn from the heart of totara. The poles to be of the following dimensions : —Twenty-five (25) and twenty (20) feet long in proportions hereinafter to be determined, but the greater portion will be twenty (20) feet long, to be eight (8) inches square at the butt, ancf six (6) inches square at the top. The poles to be sound, straight, and free from shakes, knots, and sap. N.B.— No pole will be accepted whicli contains the least sap or speckled timber, and should any pole be brought on to the ground not in accordance with the specification, the same will be cut in half prior to being rejected. The poles will have to be delivered at points not less than four (4) chains apart, along a line of telegraph to be hereafter more particularly indicated by pegs, which will follow, as a rule, along the present tramway from Foxton to Palmerston north. The delivery of the poles to commence on the Ist September, 1874, and the whole to be delivered within three (3) months of the date of signing the contract, under a penalty of five (£5) pounds per diem for every day beyond the time specified, which penalty will be recoverable from the contractor from any sums that may be, or become, due to him under his contract. Progress payments will be made at the rate of eighty (80) per cent, as works advance, the balance on completir- ~ c *■ *■ The contractor will not be allowed to let or sub-let his contract without the consent in writing of the Telegraph' Commissioner, or of the person authorised by him to act on his behalf. Tenders are to specify the price per pole as Each tender to be accompanied by a deposit of fifty pounds (£SO) as a guarantee of good faith, which sum will be forfeited by any tenderer, should he refuse to take up his tender in the event of its being accepted. ' Each tender must infclude the names of two sureties for approval, who are willing to become bond for the due performance of the contract in tho event of the tender being accepted, and must bo accompanied by a notification to_ tho effect, signed by the two proposed sureties. Tenders endorsed, "Tender for tho Supply of five hundred (500) Poles, more or lobb, for Telegraph Linos between Foxton and Palmerston °Nortb," and addressed "Tho General, Manager, Telegraph Department, Wellington," must be sent in not later than tho Ist August next. By order of the Telegraph Commissioner, C. LEMON, General Manager, New Zealand Telegraph, Head Office, Wellington, • 27th June, 1874.