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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5237, 5 January 1878, Page 3

Tenders NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. WELLINGTON-MASTERTON RAILWAY. FEATHEESTON STATION CONTRACT (FORMATION AND BUILDINGS). LENGTH—ABOUT 1 MILE 12 CHAINS. Public Works Office, . Wellington, 20th December, 1877. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office up to NOON on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd day of January, 1878, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside, “ Tender for Feathorston Station Contract.” Plans and specifications may be seen at the Public Works Offices, Wellington, Wanganui; Waipukurau, and Foxton. Telegraphic tenders, rimilarly 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 21 days, and to be in favor of the Receiver-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. N.B. —Plans for this contract can be purchased at the above offices. Railway Department, Secretary’s Office, Spencer-street, Melbourne, Nov. 16, 1877. nnENDERS for the PURCHASE of the folJL lowing NEW MACHINERY, &c., will be received until Noon, MONDAY, JANUARY 14th, 1878, at the office of the Secretary for Railways, to whom all tenders are to be addressed and endorsed “ Teuders for Machinery, &c.” All the articles offered for sale are in excellent condition and quite new, having never yet been erected, and are now lying open for inspection at the depot, Williamstown Junction : 1. Pair of stationary engines, each 20 horsepower ; 20in. cylinder 3ft. stroke ; with fly-wheel lift. 9|in. in diameter; also, 3 egg-end boilers, ends and fire'surface ' of best Low'ffloor iron. The whole manufactured by Slaughter, Gruning, and Co., of Bristol, Cost, ,£2600, Especially adapted for woollen or other mill. 2. Self-acting planing machine, E size, JimCrow action; by Sir Joseph Whitworth; , will take,in 6ft. ; maximum speed of countershaft 212 revolutions per minute, minimum, 170. Coat,j744. 3. Slotting machine, F size; to admit Bft. diameter ; top-driving apparatus, &c. ; cast-iron side frames, llffcJ lOin. high, maximum speed countershaft 189, minimum 158; by Sir Joseph Whitworth. Cost, £667. 4. Hand-brake lathe, base plate, 24ft.; bed, 12ft.; 10ft. between centres; top-driv-ing apparatus, &c. ; maximum speed countershaft 58, minimum 38 ; an exceedingly powerful tool; by Sir Joseph Whitworth.;' Cost, £1550. 5. Boring bar, self-aotintr, 15ft. long, with boring heads and cutter, adapted for boring marine or other cylinders ; by Sir Joseph Whitworth. Cost, £3OB. 6. Rack saw-bench with pulleys, rollers, &c,, complete; • also, 5 circular saws, from 2 to 4ft. diameter; by S. Worssam & Co. Cost, £283. 7. Two cupolas, with valves and tuyeres complete, of 6 and 12 tons capacity respectively; by Great Western Company of England. Cost, £2OO. 8. Blast fan, silent, 6 blades, in cast-iron case, 3Jft. diameter; by George Lloyd. Cost, £36. 9. Six foundry ladles, from 8 to 44in., with lifting gear. Cost, £42. 10. Three bossing forges, wrought-iron, each 3 blast, with pipes and throttle valves complete. Cost, £63. CONDITIONS OF TENDERING AND SALE. 1. Tenders may be for any separate lot or for any greater number. 2. A deposit of 10 per cent, on the amount offered must accompany each tender, such deposit to be either in bank notes or bank draft in the name of the Secretary for Railways. . In the case of unsuccessful tenderers the deposit will be returned within twentyone days, but in the case of a successful tenderer failing to complete his purchase it will be forfeited to the Government.

3. Cash to be paid on acceptance of tender. 4. The articles are to be taken delivery of in their present condition, and where they now lie, and must be removed, and if necessary weighed, at the expense of the purchaser, within thirty days from date of acceptance of tender, failing which they may be again sold at his risk and expense. 5. The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. Note. —Drawings of the machinery may be seen, and every information. obtained, on application to the Accountant, Spencer-street, Melbourne. JOHN WOODS, Commissioner of Railways. GAS 'COMPANY '(Limited.) TENDERS will be received by the undersigned up to 12 o’clock on TUESDAY, the 15th JANUARY, 1878, for Supplying the Company with COALS of the following descriptions, delivered at the Works, for. Twelve Months, from the first (lay of March, 1878 : Anvil Creek Coal at per Ton Greymouth Coal (screened) at per Ton Eor further particulars, apply to - A. KENNEDY, Secretary. Office of the Napier Gas Co. (Limited.) Napier, December 8; 1877. . Conveyances AIR ARAB A TO WELLINGTON BACK THE SAME DAY. For the convenience of the public Messrs Hastwell & Macaka will RUN AN EXTRA COACH, Time-Table ; Leaving Featherston at 7 a.m., arriving at Upper Hutt at 11.25. Return—Leaving Upper Hutt at 4.35, and arriving at Featherton at 8.30 p.m. Up-country settlers desiring to catch this early coach arc advised to came down to Featherton the previous evening by the afternoon coach from Masterton. NOTICE. — Having sold my Coaching Business between Wellington and Wanganui to Hastwell, Maoara, and Co., I beg to return the public generally my sincere thanks for the liberal support accorded to me for the past nine years, and solicit a continuation of that support for my successors, having every confidence that the travelling public will in no way suffer by the change. ANDREW YOUNG. With reference to the above, it will at all times bo our pleasing duty to accomodate the public in every way, and we beg to solicit a continuation of that support bestowed on our proflpppßcini* HASTWELL, MACARA, & CO.