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Southland Times, Issue 1590, 11 June 1872, Page 1

Wanted. WANTED s a Married Couple, without encumbrance, for a Station. Apply to M'Pherson & Co., Esk Btreet. _____ — __ . — , WANTED a Bullock Driver for a Station. Apply to James Colyer, Princess Hotel. WANTED a Schoolmaster for the Gummie's Bush School. Government subsidy, £60, house, and ten acres of land, part bush. Apply to Mr Francis, Gummie's Bush. WANTED an Active Young Man to act as Groom, and otherwise make himself generally useful. Apply at the Prince of Wales Hotel. Tenders. rpENDERS wanted 1 for grubbing and digging a _L section in Spey-street; also, for fencing I and making an outfall drain. Apply to D. Campbell, on the premises. WANTED, rpENDERS for Hauling Timber on New TramX way to Duck Creek Sawmills. Apply to WM. FRASER. TpENDERS will be received up till Wednesday, JL 12th inst., for constructing a tramway in the Waikiwi Bush, at per chain. For particulars, apply to John Murdoch. npENDERB will be received till noon of WedJl nesday, the 12th inst., at J. Brown's Rooms, Esk-street, for Building a School House at Clifton, Bluff Road. Plans and specifications can be Been at the Rooms. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. PLOUGHING. rpENDERS will be received by the undersigned JL till June 19th, for Ploughing 250 acres land at Heddon Bush. Particulars can be obtained there or at Dipton. MORISON & Co., Dipton, Benmore. TO CONTBACTOES. rpHE Telegraph Commissioner is prepared to JL receive tenders for the supply and delivery of two hundred and eighty (280) telegraph poles, for a line of telegraph to be constructed between Invercargill and Winton. The poles to be sawn from the Heart of totara. The poles to be of tb a following dimensions, thirty (30) to be twentyfive (25) and two hundred and fifty (250) twenty (20) feet long. To be eight (8) inches square at the butt, and six (6) inches square at the top. The poles to be sound, straight, and free from shakes, knots, and sap. _f._?. — No pole vnll be accepted which contains the least sap. The poles to be laid along the Invercargill and Wiaton railway between its junction with the Riverton road and Winton, at points hereafter to be indicated. The poles to be delivered within three mouths of the date of signing the contract. Tenders are to specify the price per pole as per size given. Each tender to be accompanied by a deposit of ten pounds (£10) as a guarantee of good faith, which will be forfeited by any tenderer, should he refuse to take up his tender, in the event of its being accepted. Each tender must include the names of two sureties for approval, who are willing to become bond for the due performance of the contract, in the event of the tender being accepted, and must be accompanied by a notification to that effect, signed by the two proposed sureties. Tenders addressed to " The Telegraph Inspector, Tokomairiro," must be sent in not later than the 15th June next. By order of the General Manager, JAMES K. LOGAN, Inspector. N. Z. Telegraph, Tokomairiro, 23rd May, 1872. SUPPLY OF TIMBER rpENDERS are invited by the Colonial Qto* 1 vernment for a SUPPLY OF BUILDING TIMBER, to be delivered on Ripa Island, Lyttelton harbor. General conditions and specifications may be seen at the office of the Resident Minister for the Middle Island, at Christchurch ; at the offices of the District Engineers at Dunedin and Hokitika ; and at the office of W. H. Pearson, Esq., Invercargill. Tenders will be received at the office of the Resident Minister, Christchurch, endorsed " Tender for Supply of Timber," until noon of Saturday, 15th day of June next. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By direction of the Resident Minister, THOMAS WM. MAUDE, Secretary. Resident Minister's Office, Christchurch. aiacliinery. VULCAN FOUNDRY, GREAT KING STREET, DUNEDIN. T7-INCAID, M'QUEEN AND CO., Boiler- -*^- makers, Engineers, Millwrights, Founders, Blacksmiths, &c. — All kinds of castings in brass and iron ; steam engines and boilers made and repaired; overshot, breast, and turbine waterwheels ; quartz crushing machinery ; pumping and winding gear ; cast iron sluice and ripple plates; sheet iron hopper and sluice plates punched to any size of hole; gold dredging spoons, &c. ; flour mill machinery and all kind, of reaping, thrashing, horse«power machines, made and repaired ; improved reaping machines. K. M'Q. & CO.'s Improved Wrought Iron Piping, for fluming and hydraulic mining, is tho beet in use, and cheaper than canvaaa.