TENDERS ACCEPTED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 173, 5 June 1862, Page 5

TENDERS ACCEPTED.

The following is a list qf tenders accepted hy the Provinoinl Government, from 31st March to to 23th May :-?

Fencing and gates for ground at Military Barracks, 11. McLaren, £2 3s per chain, £7 gates. IJrav track, North Trunk Road, Pleasant River, jjitnrocand Kifchia. jGSO, lnutaliing 120 < chains of road fiqm Tokqmniriro to the Gold ITieMs, n'ar Major Crokc.r's hcm?e, entirely of screened qn r ■/. fix Milestone gravel, Prosser and [Co ,J. A. Ross, ]Q in! £5 per chain. Forming and making 40 chains of Northern Trunk Road throngh Oinnru. JiJlder JJroihsrs. Forming and mekilli lg at per phain, LG It's; culverts por running foot 12 in. 3d, 15 in. 108 Oil, 18 in. 12s (id, 21 in. 13s (id, 2+ In. Us Gd, 27 in. ir,s Gd, 30 in. 18s 4d. ."3 m, 19Gd, 36 in. 20s l()d. Metalling roud, Tuiary Ferry to Ciutlia Perry, from Tokomiiiriro Gorge to Grey's house, James MeKcnzie £13 15s per chain. Metalling 3 miles and 8 chains, Diifoedin tp Taieri Ferry, commencing at end of metalling near ■■Chamber's house and ending at Native Reserve, James MoKcr.siie £12 12s Gd per chain,—note—the tender of Charles Gordon first Kcceptcd but not taken up. Furnishings for Tuapeka hos; itnl, John Reid, as per list. Printing1 Police Gazette, Lambert and Co. Police Station North Dunedin, Sigley and Burnhill, £220. Police Station, Sfcitiou, Tokotnairo, Bull and Colcmnn, f'"'sty&. Police supplies.—Oats and ]iay for Duneiti and Tokoma'irirp Stations, Thomas S. Hardy, T/gkonVairirp, oats Gs lid per bushel; hay, £10 per ton. John Griffin, oats at Dunedin, 4s lOd per bushel. Court House at Oamaru, George Grimuell and Co., £899 10. Accommodation lionso,. Popopunoii, Thomas Pollock. Ground rent of 30 acres, £40 per annum, and £30 bush license fee. .-.-.■ .

The vote for volunteer corps during the ensuing financial vo ir 1862-63, is put down in the estimates at £211,"(i(J7. The amount voted ; last year was £163,276, thus showing an increase of £48,391. Taking Colonel JU'Murdo's latest statement as to the numerical strength'of the force, namely, 163,000 men. us n basis ibr computation, we find that '.>fe, ;s fchoutthr; proposed cost to thenation of each volunteer.—rofruifrcr ;/o«nK!/.- ---■ Challenging Sir llobert Peel will become one of thy regular forms of the Uouso for'securing special freedom of debate, like moving that the House do resolve itself into a committee. As soon as the challenge ha:a been "iveii, and the Prime Minister has in diie° course" called the attention of the House to the breach of its privileges, Ll.e challenging member will &t tip to apologise, ami iv doing ricfWill expend his y/bolc repertory of insulting sarensm upon the Uuef Bepretarv, aimd the applause of a House delighted with the"row, arid the grim and reluctant silence of the subject of his attacks.— Saturday lievkw.