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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5396, 13 July 1878, Page 3

Public Notices ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY. WAREANTS for DIVIDEND to 31st MAY can be obtained by resident shareholders on application at the Wellington office. R. M. SIMPSON, Manager. [a card.] Mr, J. J. MILLER’S Office, Bull and Mouth Hotel; Private Residence, 3 Canning-terrace, Carlton-street, Melbourne. ■ Abridged prom the “ Australasian Sketohku ” or 4th August, 1877. “Ouv front cut this month is a sketch from life of one of these seances —the drawing of a £2OOO sweep on the Melbourne Cup. The process is very simple. The committee are chosen from among the subscribers by ballot, and invited to meet on a certain evening. Our artist was one of these privileged few. At eight o’clock, 30 subscribers having assembled, a chairman was elected, and then two scrutineers. Two thousand marbles, with the numbers cut in plain figures on them, are handed round, in trays of 100 each, to the members of the committee, for the purpose of being counted. This done, they are placed in a barrel. Then on plain marbles the names of tho horses are written ; these are pub in a smaller barrel on the table in front of the chairman. A volunteer is called for to ‘churn’ the larger barrel, aud slips of paper being supplied to the committee, everything is ready. A marble is th'eu drawn out of the larger barrel, the number called out aud entered in a book, and then passed to the scrutineers. Then a horse is drawn out of the smaller barrel, and number aud horse go together; and so on till the whole of the horses are drawn. Everything is conducted with the utmost fairness, and there is no possibility of anything 1 crooked’ The affair lasted about an hour and a half.” . Result slips of the drawing are forwarded to country subscribers, and the amount is divided thus:— jyjj*ELBOURNE CUP, 18 78. Mr. J. J. MILLER may bo consultel as above, by letter only. Office: Bull and Mouth Hotel, Bourkc-street, Melbourne. Tenders TENDERS are invited on or before the 31st DAY of JULY for a Lease for seven years of the following properties, either together or separately : 1. Seven hundred acres (or thereabouts) of land in the picturesque valley of the Pakuratahi, distant one and a half miles from the Kaitoki station. Ahout four hundred and fifty acres of the land are cleared aud laid down in English grasses, subdivided into paddocks and orchard. The property has a frontage of about two and a half miles to the main road leading from Wellington to tho Wairarapa, and there is a constant stream of water running through it. The buildings consist of oue**two-storey house containing six rooms, a cottage containing four rooms, a ten-stall stable, aud several outbuildings. The orchard, of about one acre in extent, is well stocked with fruit trees, and fenced. •2. Pive hundred acres, situate also at Pakuratahi, on the opposite side of the road to the above. Seventy acres of the land are cleared and laid clown in English grasses, fenced aud subdivided into paddocks, and about one hundred acres are perfectly level. There is a house containing eleven rooms, a stable with thirty stalls aud loose box. A stream of water runs through the property. ’Persons desirous of viewing the property can do so by applying to Mr. W. N. Mason, Pakuratahi, who will point out the boundaries. Por further particulars apply to T. J. MOUNTAIN, Wellington ; THOMAS WAGG, Mungaroa ; or to Messrs. BRANDON & SON, Wellington. rjpo SAW-MILLERS AND OTHERS. Tho undersigned is prepared to receive tenders for cutting timber at the Orua Saw-mill, Peilding. Specifications and every other information can be had by applying to JAMES BULL, Orua Saw-mill, Peilding. Tenders to be sent in not later than 30th JULY. FJI O BU ILDERS. TENDERS are invited until Noon of MONDAY, JULY 15bb, for the Erection of Club House at Mastertou. Plana and specifications cau be seen at my my office, and at the office of R. Brown, Esq., hon, sec. of the Club, at Masterton. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted,* J. H. SOHWABE, Architect. Insurance Buildings, Wellington, OBUIL D E R S. The time for receiving tenders for the Masterton Club is EXTENDED till NOON of THURSDAY, the 25th INSTANT. J. H. SOHWABE, Architect. Insurance Buildings. rj'l O BUILDERS. TENDERS are invited until MONDAY, the 22nd INST., for the erection of the Colonial Back offices, Lamhton-quay. Elans and specifications at my office. THOMAS TURNBULL, Architect. Temple Chambers.. rjp O BUILDERS. TENDERS are invited for extensive alterations aud additions to the old Wellington Club, Lamhton-quay. Elans and specifications can be seen at ray office, whore tenders will bo received up to NOON of SATURDAY, the 20th INST. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. 0. OHATEIELD, ■ Architect. Lamhton-quay, 11th July, 1878. ZEALAND RAILWAYS. 878 TONS OP 52-lb. IRON RAILS AND PASTBNINGS POR THE NEW . ZEALAND RAILWAYS. Euhlio Works Office, Wellington, Cth Pebruary, 1878. WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this office until NOON on MONDAY, the 22ncl JULY, 1878, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister., for Public Works, Wellington, and marked outside “ Tender for Rails and Fastenings.” Elans and specifications may ho seen at ,the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Wellington, and at Railway Manager's Office, Napier, Chief Surveyor’s Office, Nelson. Telegraphic tenders, similarly addressed and marked, will be received if presented .at any telegraph office by Noon of tile same date, provided that written tenders in due form are lodged at any of the above-named offices by tho same hour, and accompanied by a cheque ou some hank in the town where the tender is lodged ; such cheque to be specially marked by a banker as good for 21 days, and to bo 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 OARRUTHERS, ’ v Engineer-iu-Chief. TO • LET, during the Session, well-fur-nished Apartments ou the Terrace. Splendid view of tho harbor ; plunge and shower bath. Apply Lancaster House, two doors below Jewish Synagogue.