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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 277, 15 June 1860, Page 2

fkfo %)tk\immmk ' ' PLOUGHING MATCH. "" THE ANNUAL PROVINCIAL PLOUGHING MATCH in connection with the Agricultural Association will take place on TjJESDAY, July 3rd, in a field at Richmond, belonging to Mr. Harkness, opposite Mr. John Young's Blacksmith's Shop. The following PRIZES will then be offered for public competition:— CLASS I. HORSES without a Driver and Ploughman, of any age:— First Prize, £4 ; Second Prize, £2 ; Third Prize, £1 CLASS 11. BULLOCKS, without a Driver and Ploughman, of any age:— First Prize, £3; Second Prize, £1. If more than six teams should compete in this class, the prizes will be the same as in the first and third class. CLASS lU. BULLOCKS, with a Driver and Ploughman, of any age:— Frst Prize, £4; Second Prize, £2; Third Prize, £L , CLASS IV. HORSES or BULLOCKS, with or without a Driver, for Ploughmen under sixteen years of age:— ♦ Fiist Prize, £3 ; Second Prize, jgl. All Ploughs to start at Ten o'clock, a.m., and to finish by Three o'clock, p.m. Quantity of land to be ploughed by each plough will not exceed one half acre.J The 'furrow slice not to be less than, five inches deep, nor more than nine inches wide. The Judges, will be instructed to withhold any prize now advertised in any of the above classes, unless the ploughing be meritorious. The owners of any ploughs not being the property of a member of the Agricultural Association imist pay an entrance of 2s. Gd. Parties who reside at a distance from the ground may put their working cattle in the Fair Ground on nights before, and after, the Ploughing Match. FEDOR KELLING, 669 Secretary. KELSON BOARD OF WORKS. j NOTICE is hereby given that in One Week from this date LEGAL PROCEEDINGS will be taken for the recovery of all RATES then remaining unpaid. I By order of the Board, J. L. BAILEY, Secretary. Board of Works Office, Nelson, June 14,1860. 679 NELSON BOARD OF WORKS. HPENDERS for the services of Horses and J- Cart 9, with Drivers, at per day as required, will be received at this Office up to Four o'clock, p.m., on FRIDAY next, June 22. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. By order of the Board, J.L. BAILEY, Secretary. Board of Works Office. Nelson, June 14,1860. 080 TO CARPENTERS AND OTHERS. HPENDERS will be received at this OfJ- fice up to Four o'clock, p.m., of FRIDAY next, June 22, for the ERECTION of a FOOT-BRIDGIS OVER THE MAITAI at Bridge-street, and in accordance with a plan and specification that may be seen at this office. The Board of Works do not bind themselves to accept the lowest or any tender. By order of the Board, J. L. BAILEY, Secretary. Board of Works Office, Nelson, June 14, 1860. 681 Kp'vvV'VHUU'-m- (^VVM-vw* Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, June 12,1860. QEALED TENDERS will be received at , this Office until MONDAY, the 25th instant, from persons desirous of contracting to execute the undermentioned SERVICES, for the Six Months ending the 31st December next, viz.: — Supplying Stationery to the several Government Offices ; Also, Spirits, Wines, Bottled Ale and Porter, and Colonial Ale, to Hospital; Also, Rations to the Gaol, Lock-up, Hospitals, and Destitute Poor ; Also, the undermentioned Articles, viz. :— Beef (fresh), free from bone . at per lb. Mutton ~ . . >, Suet . . . . ~ Flour (fine) „ Bread „ Rice , >, Tea „ Sugar . . . „ Oatmeal . . . ~ Arrowroot „ Sago . . . „ Butter (fresh) . . „ Ditto (salt) „ Salt (fine) „ Pepper(ground) , . „ Soap ;, Candles (Mould) ,' , „ Ditto (Sperm) . . „ Whiting . .. . „ Potatoes (good) . . ~ Tobacco . . . ~ Linseed Meal . . • ~ Eggs . . ~ , per dozen Matches . • . per doz. boxes Milk . . . per quart Vinegar ~ Oil (Black Fish) . . „ Ditto (Sperm) . . „ Wick . . „ Samples of Stationery and Rations will be required to be left at this Office with the Tenders. Rations to be sent to Hospitals and Gaol as.required. Scale of Rations and list of Stationery required may be seen at this office. ALFRED DOMETT, 673 Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, 12th June, 1860. SEALED TENDERS will be received at £5 this office until MONDAY, the 25th instant, from persons desirous of contracting to supply good hard dry FIREWOOD, nt par cord, and good COAL at per ton, to the several Government Offices, Hospitals, Gaol, Lockup, and destitute Poor, &c, for the Six Months ending 31st December, ] 860. ALFRED DOMETT, Provincial Secretary. TENDERS ,to supply COFFINS to the Hospital and Destitute Poor, will also be received on the same day, for the same period, 674 A. D.