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Patea Mail, 18 October 1882, Page 3

A young salmon, measuring about seven inches in length, was captured recently in the Wairoa river, near the ferry. Mr Fred Godfrey, late bandmaster of the celebrated Coldstream Guards, died in August, News has just been received in Christchurch of Colonel Packe’s death. He has been ailing for a long time, and his death has several times been reported before its occurence. A Reuter’s telegram dated Sydney October 16lh says:—The Hon. S. C. Brown, late Postmaster General, was seized with apoplexy while practising at an insolvency court this afternoon, and expired within an hour. He was 53 years of age. At the meeting at Fordell the other night one of the gentlemen present stated that he had succeeded in grafting potatoes. The method, as described by him, was to nib off all the sprouts of good sound potatoes, and graft them into the sprouts of the sort he wished to propogate. The meat supply raised in France is gradually diminishing. The annual deficit in the rations of the soldiers alone amounts to one and a half million of kilometers, and has to be supplied from abroad. It. is now proposed to discard salted meat and tinned meat, and resort to frozen fresh meat from America, Australia, and New Zealand.—Globe. The once famous Carlton oyster beds, Tasmania, are looking up again. A bivalve weighing 21bs., and measuring 15 indies in circumference, was taken the other day to tlie Mercury office. Some sample tins of boiled rabbits have been distributed by Messrs J. Marsden and Son, meat preservers of Christchurch and Kaikoura. The quality of the meat is excellent, and it has been so skilfully preserved as to retain the full flavour of the rabbit as if freshly killed. For continuation of news see fourth page. Tenders. Pa tea Harbor Board. mENDERS are invited for the lease for over twenty years of sub-section 8, section 131, and section 135, both Whcnuakura block. Tenders to be sealed, addressed to the Chairman, endorsed “ Tender for lease of— ” and to be delivered .to the undersigned before noon of Monday 11th December. THOMAS EYTON, Secretary. Patea, 11th October, 1882. Note.— On sub-section 8, section 131, there is a brickyard and an unlimited supply of suitable clay for brickmakiug. The land has a frontage to the main road, and is close to the Patea road bridge and Railway station. Manutahi Station Buildings. FOXTON-NEW PLYMOUTH RAILWAY. Public Works Office, W r ellington, 3rd October, 1882. mENDERS will bo received at this X Office until noon on Tuesday, the 31st October, 1882, for the above Contract. They are to be marked on the outside, “ Tender for Manutabi Station Buildings Contract,” and addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works. Telegraphic tenders similarly addressed and marked will be received if presented at any Telegraph Office by noon of the same date, provided that tenders as above are lodged at any District or Resident Engineer’s Office by the same hour. Drawings, specifications, and general conditions may be seen at this office ; at the Public Works Offices, Hawera and Wanganui ; the Railway Station, New Plymouth ; and the Crown Lands Office, Patea, The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command. JOHN BLACKETT, Engineer in Charge, North Island. Manutahi (Plate-lajing) Contract. Length miles. about 71 FOXTON-NEW PLYMOUTH RAILWAY. Public Works Office, Wellington, 6th October, 1882. mENDERS will be received at this X Office until noon on Thursday, the 2nd November, 1882, for the above Contract, They are to be marked on the outside, “ Tender for Manutahi Platelaying Contract,” and addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works. Telegraphic tenders similarly addressed and marked will be received if presented at any Telegraph Office by xoon of the same date, provided that tenders as above are lodged at any District or Resident Engineer’s Office by the same hour. Drawings, specifications, and general conditions may be seen at this office ; at the Public Works Offices, Hawera and Wanganui ; the Railway Station, New Plymouth ; and the Crown Lands Office, Patea. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By command, JOHN BLACK LTT, Engineer-in-Charge, North Island.