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about sixteen years: but by taking two bottles of your Gout Mixture, I have lost all pain or trace of the gouty symptoms. My appetite is good and my general health much improved. I can recommend your Indian Medicines strongly to others.—(Signed) Geokge Lummls.”—(Adyt.) Strangers paying a visit to Wellington; and country settlers arriving in town, are very often at a loss to know which is the best house or cheapest general drapery establishment to visit for buying drapery and clothing. J. McDowell and Co. offer special advantages. They keep at all .times the largest and best assorted stock of every class of goods, imported direct from the leading manufacturers of Great Britain and Ireland, which, being bought on the most advantageous terras, enables them to offer goods of sterling qualities at prices that cannot be improved on by any house in the trade. Every article is marked at a fixed price that cannot bo deviated from, so that inexperienced people can buy equally with the best judges, the terms being 6 per cent, discount on all sums of £2 and upwards, and 2J per cent, on all accounts settled monthly; on all quarterly accounts or statements, no reduction. We consider that cash buyers are entitled to the above discount, and have adopted the above as a permanent system with our customers. A full description of stock can bo obtained from our catalogues and advertisement. Note the address—Opposite the Bank of New Zealand, cornet of Lamb-ton-quay and Willis-street, Wellington.— Advt

Tenders ZEALAND RAILWAYS. WANGANUI-MANAWATU RAILWAY. STATION BUILDINGS CONTRACT. COAL STORE. Public Works Office, Wellington, 27th July, 1877. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 15th AUGUST, 1877, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside “ Tender for Coal Store Contract, Wanganui Station.” Plans and specifications may be • seen at the Public Works Offices, Palmerston North, Pox ton, Wanganui, and Wellington. 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, 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 Re-ceiver-General’s Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or order. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By command. JOHN CARRUTHERS, Engineer-in-Chief. TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHERS. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 22nd June, 1877. TENDERS will be received at this office, until 11 • o’clock on TUESDAY, the 7th AUGUST, from persons willing to contract for the construction of the Works on the Extension of the Great Northern Railway, from Werris’Creek to Gunnedab, being a distance of 41J miles. Plans, specification, and form of tender may be seen, and further particulars obtained, at the Office of the Engineer-in-Chiet Sydney, on and after the 10th July. Tenders are to be indorsed “ Tender for constructing the Extension from Werris’ Creek to Gunnedab.” The Commissioner does not bind himself to accept the lowest or any Tender. : JOHN RAE, . Commissioner for Railways. CITY COUNCIL. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. TENDERS addressed to the Mayor and City Couucil will be received at the City Council Offices on or before FRIDAY FIRST, the 3rd AUGUST, at 4 p,m., for—1. Construction of pipe drain, Arthur-, street, &c. 2. Construction of pipe drain, Quin-street. 3. Forming and draining Lorne-street. 4. Forming'kerbing, Tory-street. 5. Supplying mud carts. Specifications may be seen at my office. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By order. ’ . N. MAROHANT, City Surveyor. Lambton-quay, July 3,0. rjl O E U ILDE RS. TENDERS for Erecting a Warehouse in Willis-street, will be received at my office, where plans and specifications can be seen, until NOON of FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. C. TRINGHAM, Architect. Molesworth-street, July 24. rp O ~B U I L D E R S. Tenders are invited until noon of MON” DAY, the 6th day of AUGUST, for the labor and part material required in the erection of a Roman Catholic Church at Blenheim. Plans and specifications at my office. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. THOS. TURNBULL, Architect. Temple Chambers, July 19, 1877. rJIO B U ILDERS. TENDERS are invited until Noon of WEDNESDAY, the Ist day of AUGUST NEXT, for the erection of a residence in Hobaonstreet for Jacob Joseph, Esq. Plans and specifications at my office. THOS. TURNBULL, Architect. Temple Chambers, July 17th, 1877. rjl 0., B U I L D E R S. TENDERS for Building School and Dwell-ing-house at Stokes’ Valley, will be received at my office until the Ist of AUGUST, where plans and specifications may be seen. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. C. J. TOXWARD, Architect. WELLINGTON PATENT SLIP COMPANY (LIMITED.) TENDERS will be received until NOON of MONDAY, 20th AUGUST, at the Company’s Office, Custom House-quay, Wellington, for the purchase of the hull and masts of a VESSEL (at present unnamed) now being constructed at the Company’s Yards, Evans’ Bay, where she may be seen and examined at any time. Her register tonnage will be about 75 tons, and it is estimated she will carry 150 tons dead weight. She is 80ft. long; beam, 19ft.; depth of hold, 7ft. Gin.; framing is all jronbark and blue gum_; planking, blue gum; lining, blue gum and kauri; deck, kauri; masts, kauri. Suitable for brigantine or topsail schooner. She is copper fastened throughout, and built in strict accordance with Lloyd’s regulations for firstclass vessels. She has been on the stocks for upwards of two years, and all the materials have been thoroughly seasoned. Mr. Thirkell, tho superintendent of the Company’s yards, will afford intending purchasers every information. Further particulars on application to J. R. GEORGE, Engineer and Manager, Wellington, July 26, 1877.