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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4517, 11 September 1875, Page 3

Government Notices N OTICE TO CONTRACTORS Provincial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, August 31st, 1875. Tenders will be received up to NOON of Tuesday, the 14th day of SEPTEMBER, at this office, for the construction of a Viaduct at Greytown. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Institute, Greytown, and Provincial Engineer’s Office here. The lowest or any tender not necessarily aC ce p t ed ( Signed) HENRY BUNNY, Provincial Secretary. ZEALAND LIGHTHOUSES. Marine Engineer’s Office, Wellington, August 9, 1375. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office until WEDNESDAY, 15th September, 1875, for the ERECTION of a WOODEN LIGHTHOUSE TOWER, DWELLING HOUSES, and OTHER BUILDINGS, on GAPE FOUL WIND. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Commissioner of Customs, Wellington, and marked outside, “ Tender for Lighthouse, &c., Cape Foulwind.” Plans and specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Wellington, Nelson,, Westport, and Hokitika. Telegraphic tenders similarly addressed and marked will be x-eceived if px-eseuted 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, and accompanied ,by a cheque on some bank in the town where the tender is lodged ; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for twenty-one days, and to be in favor of “ The ReceiverGeneral’s Deposit Account only,” and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. ' By command. JOHN BLACKETT, Marine Engineer. Government Land Sales. pEO VINCE OF WELLINGTON. EXTENSIVE AND IMPORTANT SALE 12,000 ACRES OF CROWN LANDS. NOTICE is hereby given, that there will be olfei’ed for sale by public auction, at the Crown Lands Office, Provincial Government Buildings, Wellington, on TUESDAY, 21st SEPTEMBER, At 12 o’clock noon, The following Valuable Lands, viz.: — TOWNSHIP OF PALMERSTON. Town section No. 601, containing 3 roods 16 perches. Upset price, £23. TOWN OF WANGANUI. Valuable town section in St. Hill-street ; J acre. Upset price, £6O. TUKAPU DISTRICT. 1 rural section; contents, 114 acx-es. Upset price, £57. HOROKIWI ROAD DISTRICT. 4 sections, ranging from 89 to 148 acres each. Upset prices, £44 to £74 each. HUTT DISTRICT. COUNTRY BETWEEN MUNGAROA AND WAIKANAE. 58 sections, making an aggregate of about 11,000 acres, varying in size from 154 to 228 acres each. Upset price, 10s. per acre. These last named sections consist chiefly of good timbered land, the greater portion of the bush, including some patches of totara, being well adapted for sawing purposes. Tlxe land undulates into hills and valleys, and there are several small flats with excellent soil in the vicinity of the river. The deviation of the West Coast road line, for which a sum of £4OOO has been voted by the Provincial Council, will open up this land. In anticipation of the construction of this road, tor which the bush is now being fallen, a bridle-track will be formed at once. This land will acquire a high value when the road line in question has been completed. Lithographed maps of the 58 sections on the deviation of the West Coast road line, showing their numbers, contents, &c. ; also Gazettes with schedule of prices, can be obtained at the Crown Lands Office, Provincial Government Buildings. Gazettes will also be supplied by the following agents:— H. I. Jones, Wanganui G. M. Snelson, Palmerston Ohaiu.es Hakbis, Criterion Hotel, Upper Hutt. JOS. G. HOLDSWORTH, Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Wellington, 16th August, 1875. NEW ZEALAND. PROVINCE OF TARANAKI. GOVERNMENT LAND SALES. A SERIES of LAND SALES is being held in the PROVINCE of TARANAKI under the Waste Lands Board of the province, the Lands offered being Town and Rural Allotments, the latter varying in area from 20 to 320 acres, and the conditions of sale being by DEFERRED PAYMENTS extended over Ton Years, by Auction, for CASH; and by FREE SELECTION for GASH. The district is traversed by the Waitara-Wjiuganui Railway, now in course of construction, and which is expected to be completed as far as Inglewood—the Township at the commencement of the district —in about eighteen months. The land is well adapted to working settlers of small capital, as it is easily accessible, has abundance of timber for building, fencing, fuel, and shelter; never-failing streams of water, and a vex-y prodxxctive soil. A good main road traverses the district so far as it is yet open for purchase, and the District Roads will also bo opened up by the Provincial Govemxxxent, so as to make each allotment accessible from the main line of railway. Plans, schedules, land regulations of the province, &c., can be obtained at the Crown Lands Office, Now Plymouth. O. D. WHITCOMBE, Commissioner of Crown Lands Crowxx Lands Office, Taranaki, March 17, 1875. Miscellaneous. HE undersigned are Cash Buyers of WOOL and other PRODUCE, or will make anoes on the same on liberal terms. LEVIN & COHE undersigned are Cash Purchasers of WOOL, TALLOW, and other produce; they will make liberal advances on_the e. . JOHNSTON & CO. BEAL STORE, WITH BAKERY, TO LET. ry complete General Store, with bakend dwellinghouso, to let, with namessession ; situate in the centre of the [x of Turakina. Apply to Messrs. J. Bull, Eangitikei.