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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4963, 17 February 1877, Page 3

Government Notices IST OTICE TO CONTRACTORS falling and clearingloo chains ' . op BUSH ON MASTERTON TO alfredton road. Provincial Buildings, Wellington, 3rd February, 1877. No eligible tender having been-received: for above work, other tenders will be received up to noon of WEDNESDAY, the 21st instant, addressed to this office. Plans and specifications may be seen at District Engineer’s office, Masterton, and Prbvincial District Engineer’s office here. ' The lowest or any tender not necessarilv accepted. Public Works, Office, (Colonial Architect’s Branch,) Wellington, 13th February, 1877. TENDERS are invited for certain altera--tions and additions to and fittings for the .Chief Post Office, Wellington. 1 General conditions, specifications, and drawings may be seen at the, offices of the Colonial Architect, Wellington. Tenders addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and marked outside “ Tender for Alterations to Chief Post Office,” will be x-eceived at the office of the undersigned x)p to noon of SATURDAY, the 17th inst. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. . ZEALAND RAILWAYS. Public Works. Office, • • Wellington, 19th January, 1877. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to NOON on MONDAY, the 19th February, 1877, for the supply and delivery of STORES for the New Zealand Railways at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Specifications may be seen at the Public Works Office, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Tenders, with. Schedule, properly filled up, must be sent in on the printed forms, which will be supplied on application. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command. JOHN CAERUTHEES, Engineer-in-Chief. Public Companies ZEALAND LOAN & MERCANTILE AGENCY COMPANY (LIMITED). It is hereby notified to Shareholders in New Zealand that a DIVIDEND, at the rate of Ten per cent, per annum, for six months ending 31st December last, and a BONUS of Five per cent., are NOW PAYABLE at the Bank of New Zealand.* HENRY BUNNY. K ; W. H. CLAYTON, Colonif l Architect.

FREDK. BATTLEY, For the Managing Director. Auckland, February 9, 1877. .110 S P E C T U S ’. OF THE : NEW ZEALAND SILVER MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, Mount Eangitoto, County of Westland,.Nevfe —-.A Zealand. Capital-:— £40,000, in 8000 Shares of £5 each, payable as follows Five shillings on application; five shillings on allotment; the balance on calls not exceeding two shillings and sixpence per month. The Company will be registered immediately ' applications are received for 5000 shares. Head Office to be at Dunedin or Wellington, according to decision of a majority of shareholders. Provisional Directors: Messrs. S. M. South, J. R. Hudson, and Henry Young, Hokitika;Dunedin Broker : Mr. J. B. Bradshaw ; Bankers; Bank of New Zealand. The object of the proposed Company is to 'work a Mineral Lease of 500 acres, situate at Mount Eangitoto, County of i Westland, formerly known as Hudson’s Lease, which Lease has been since purchased from the Waste Lands Board by Mr. Henry Young.- i i The Lease is-known as No. 2,-Wesfofthb Mount Eangitoto Company's Mine. ! The area secured is 500 acres, on which two distinct,;lodes of ore—one! fifteen inches; and the other varying from three to five feet in width—outcrop. ; Mr; Arthur, Mining Surveyor, who has recently returned from-completing a survey of the Lease, reports as follows, i ■ ! • .“jr may,.state that in addition to lodes formerly reported on, Mr.- Palmer; one of the original prospectors of the Mount Eangitoto Silver Mine,' who kindly volunteered his assistance in ■ the survey, discovered a large lode in one of the creeks running through this Lease, the position of which you will see on the plan, and marked ‘ Quartz Reef.’ The Reef is from fifteen to eighteen feet in thickness, and bearing east IBdeg. south, and west 13degc north, underlying to the north at an angle of about SOdegs. This lode is in a .direct line With those now being worked by the Prospectors’ Company, and shows both Galena and Pyrites. Mr. Palmer also discovered a great quantity of stream-tin in two different creeks in the Lease, some of the boulders being from two to three hundredweight. lam of opinion that an immense tin lode must also run. through the lease, from the quantity of; stream, tin. in the two creeks.” , - ; j The original prospectors of the Mountjßangitoto Company’s .Mine also report ,a?iollows upon this' Lease: —“Two lodes; pfipye similar to those ' in ' the Mount Eangitoto.Cbmpany’sMine outcrop in this cue of fifteen inches—the other varies, from three to five feet in thickness.’’;,- : -M- ' : |lt is proposed to .engage California a 5 thofougly competent and experienced Silver Mining Manager,; and: to have the mine developed and worked on sound scientific principles, and with the latest machinery. As there, is an- abundant supply, of. water arid' timber iu the immediate vicinity of the mine, arid the Government' have now -in progress a lice of road which will connect the Mount Eangitoto -Mines with the Hokitika road, if is. expected that the working of the mine will be conducted with facility and economy. Samples of ore from the Eangitoto’s Company's Mine have , been proved, by Professor Kirkland, of the Melbourne University, to contain respectively, three hundred and ninetytwo ounces, and seven hundred arid thirty-five ounces of silver to the ton. Dr. Hector, in his Eleventh Annual Report, 1876, on the Colonial Museum and Laboratory, Wellington—; Reports haying obtained from a sample of Eangitoto ore a yield at the rate of five ounces fifteen pennyweights nineteen grains of gold per ton. Reference is also directed to “ results of analysis No. 1855, locality ( Mount Eangitoto, obtained at the New Zealand Geological Survey Laboratory, which read thus:—“The amount of gold in No. I is ten ounces two pennyweights per ton.” On transferring the property to the proposed Company, the Promoters will receive 2000 •fully paid up £5 shares, and the sum of £IOOO in cash. Early application for Shares will be necessary, as the Promoters confidently expect applications for fully double the number of j Shares to be allotted.

will be received at any of the principal branches of the Bank of New Zealand throughout the colony, or by HENEY YOUNG, Hokitika, Interim Secretary, Or F. A, LEAEMONTH & CO., Brokers for Westland,