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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4295, 25 December 1874, Page 4

Government Notices. ana Public Works Office, (Colonial Architect’s Branch), Wellington, 7th December, 1874. TENDERS are invited for SEATING the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES. General conditions, specifications, and drawings may be seen at the office of the Colonial Architect, Wellington. Tenders addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside, “ Tender for Seating the House of Representatives, will be received up to 4 o’clock of MONDAY, the Ist day of FEBRUARY, 1875. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. 11. CLAYTON, Colonial Architect. N E W Z'E A L AND ROADS. Public Works Office Wellington, 10th December, 1874. TENDERS will be received at this office until NOON on WEDNESDAY, 13th JANUARY, 1875, for No. 9 CONTRACT, on the WANGANUI and TAUPO HORSE-ROAD, in length about five miles. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, AVcllington, and marked outside, “Tender for Taupo Homeroad.” Specifications may be seen at this Office, and at the Public Works Office, Wanganui, The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. w ■SSEiS* 1 AIMEA WATER R A C E. Public Works Office, Wellington, 10th December, 1874. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this Office up to NOON on SATURDAY, 9th day of JANUARY, 1875, for the construction of HE AD WORKS for the above-mentioned Race. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside, “Tender for Headworks, Waimea Water Race.” Plans and specifications may be seen at this Office, and at the Public AVorks Offices at Greymouth and Hokitika. Telegraphic Tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented at any telegraph office by Noon of the same date, provided that written tenders in due form are lodged at a District or Resident Engineer’s office by the same hour. Tenders, with properly filled up Schedule, must be sent in on the printed forms which will be supplied on application, but the lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command, JOHN BLACKETT, Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. JpPOVINCE OE AVELLINGTON. IMPORTANT SALE OF CROWN LANDS IN THE TOAVNSHIP OF BUNNYTHORPE, Manawatu District. PRELIMINARY NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that on or about the 15th Feb, 1875, there will be offered for sale BY PUBLIC AUCTION, At the Crown Lauds Office, AVcllington, ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND ACRES OF CROWN LANDS, CONSISTING OF SURVEYED TOAVN, SUBURBAN, AND RURAL SECTIONS, IN THE TOWNSHIP OF BUNNYTHORPE, Manawatu District. The Township is situated at the junction from which the Railway Lines to Napier, AVanganui, and Foxton radiate, and is within a moderate distance from Palmerston. The land is of the richest quality, consisting of flat bush, and the whole district abounds with the most valuable timber. The township possesses a frontage to the Railway several miles in length. The survey of the sections is well-advanced. Lithographed plans and gazettes, showing contents and positions of sections, will shortly be ready for circulation. JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner Crown Lauds. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, Dec. 15, 1874. N The lands hereinafter described will be SOLD BY AUCTION, AT THE CROWN LANDS OFFICE, NAPIER, HAWKE’S BAY, ON THE 19th JANUARY, 1875. Further particulars can be obtained on application at the Survey Office. T 1. TWELVE QUARTER-ACRE SECTIONS, immediately adjoining the wharf on the reclaimed land, Gough Island, Port Ahuriri. Upset price, from £SOO to £IOOO per section. , 2. About 6500 ACRES of OPEN LAND, situate from twenty to twenty-five miles from Napier, near the’main road to Auckland, in sections from 80 to 300 acres. : , Upset price, 10s. per acre. 3. About 2008 ’ACRES of BUSH LAND .... at Pohui, near the main road to Auck- • land, in sections of about 80 acres each. Upset price, £2 per acre. 4. The, TOWNSHIP of WOODVILLE, situate at the junction of the Welling-i ton, Napier, and West Coast roads, four miles from the Manawatu Gorge.! Sections: Quarter-acres. Upset price,; from £5 to £lO per section. 5. SUBURBAN LANDS, adjoining AVoodville, and situate along the main; road; about 5500 acre's flat land and rich soil, in sections about 50 acres each. Upset price, from £1 to £2 per acre. A few SMALL SECTIONS immediately adjoining Woodville. Upset price, about £5 per acre. 6. A BLOCK of 520 ACRES of good BUSH LAND, situate between the Norsewood and Danevirk Settlements’ sections, adjoining the main road, from 35 to 50 acres each. Upset, price, from £1 to £2 per acre. 7. A BLOCK of about 300 ACRES of good TOTARA BUSH, adjoining the Danevirk Settlement, in sections from 10 to 15 acres. Upset price, £5 per acre. ■ ■ . • ■ ■ 8. About 2000 ACRES of BUSH LAND in the Tua Tua Block, near Norsewood. The tramway about to be constructed bounds this block of land on one side. Sections: from 20 to 80 acres. Upset price, £2 to £5 per acre. J. D. ORMOND, Superintendent. October 27, 1874.