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ifcimteitf ;Sotm; Provincial Secretary's Office, ; • Nelson, December7,lß6o. r TENDERS will be received at this Office, *- until MONDAY, the 14th January, 11861 1 from persons desirous of EXECUTING the undermentioned WORKS, viz. :^- Improving Eoads at Clifton; Improving Ford at Waitapu ; Erecting a Landing Stage at Motupipi. . Specifications of tho above may be seen at this office and at the house of Mr. Geobge Taylor, Takaka. ; ,' , "■ V.-V ALFKED DOMETT J; 1484: Provincial Secretary. ~~ Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, 10th December, 1860. QEALED TENDERS will be received at this office until WEDNESDAY, the 26th instant, from persons desirous of contracting to execute the un-der-mentioned SERVICES for the six months ending the 30th June next, viz: Supplying STATIONERY to the several Govern- . r ment Offices. Also, SPIRITS, WINES, BOTTLED , ALE /and , PORTER, andCOLONIAL ALE to' Hospital. Also RATIONS to the Gaol, Lock-up,. Hospitals, and Destitute Poor. Also the undermentioned articles, via:.: - Beef (fresh), free from bone atperlb. Mutt6n . ~ „ i, Suet . : : ' • • . ~ Flour (fine) . . „ Bread . • , »> Rice . . • ~'■■■■ Tea . • >> Sugar . . • » Oatmeal . • „ Arrowroot . „ Sago . . • „ Butter (fresh) . • „ „ (salt) . . „ Salt (fine) . „ Pepper (ground) . „ Soap . . • „ ; Candles (mould) . • „ „ (sperm) , „ Whiting . . . ~ Potatoes (good) . . „ Tobacco . . . „ Linseed Meal ' • . „ Eggs . • per dozen Matches . . per dozen hoxes Milk' . . per quart Vinegar . . . . „ Wick . ••/ ' ' Per oz* 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, 1497 Provincial Secretary. PRINTING. Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, 10th December, 1860. TENDERS will be received at this office -*- until WEDNESD\Y the 26th instant for Printing the Government Gazette, and for such other Printing as may be required for the service of the Government, during the twelve calendar months commencing the Ist day of Januaiy next., The Printing will be divided into the following portions:— 1. The Government Gazette. ; 2. Bills, Acts, and Estimates. 3. Votes and Proceedings, and Daily Notices of the Provincial Council. 4. Statistics and similar Returns, chiefly comprising figures. 5. Blank Forms, and other Johs not included in the above portions. Tenders for the first portion to specify a price per sheet demy Bvo, as well as par sheet of foolscap folio. Tenders will be received for the whole or any separate portion of the above. ALFKED DOMETT, 1496 Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, 10th December. 'TENDERS will be received at this office -L until WEDNESDAY, the 26th instant, from persons desirous of contracting to supply good hard dry FIREWOOD at per cord, to the several Government Offices, Hospitals, Gaol, and Lock-up, for the Bix months ending 30th June, 1861. ALFRED DOMETT, 14-95 Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, 10th December, 1860. 'TENDERS will be received at this office -*- until WEDNESDAY, the 26th instant, from persons desirous of contracting to supply COFFINS for the Hospitals, Destitute Poor, &c, for Twelve months ending 3lst December, 1861. ALFRED DOMETT, 1494 Provincial Secretary. '"■"" DOG TICKETS. Provincial Secretary's Office, December 10th, IS6O. HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that DOG TICKETS for the year 1861, can be obtained from the Acting Sergeant Major of Police, Nelson, and from the Constables of the undermentioned districts, viz.: Suburban North-Waimea-east Waimea-west Waimea-south Motueka Collingwood, by the Sergeant Major of Police. Any person having a dog at large without a ticket for the current year will be liable to be proceeded against under the provisions of the Dog Nuisance Ordinance. ALFRED GREENFIELD, 1492 Chief Clerk. CAUTION. STEELYARDS OR SPRING BALANCES. 'THE attention of the public is called to -*- the following clauses of the Weights and Measures Ordinance, prohibiting, under certain circumstances, the use of Steelyards, or Spring Balances, in weighing goods. i" If any person shall bargain, sell, or deliver in pay- { ment, barter, or exchange, any goods, wares, or ; merchandise, or other thing by any other weights ■ or measures than by such as shall agree with the i said standard weights or measures, or the copies I or models thereof as aforesaid (except as herein : excepted), or shall so bargain, sell, or deliver by ! any steelyard or spring balance, or by any unstamped or unmarked weights or measures, every person so offending shall, for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of forty shillings." :" Nothing in this ordinance contained shall be construed to prevent the use of * * * -steelyards \ in the weighing of goods not exposed for ssle in : the ordinary course of trade; provided that no such steelyard be used within the limits of any town which shall be brought under the operation ■ of this ordinance.'' ■ : • HENRY CLOUSTEN, 4175 : Inspector. (Fyou want a first-class HAVANJSfAH -*r CIGAR, go to WEST'S, Bridge-street. ■ 1249 j UST RECEIVED, peFPitiiWJE Alfred, « 275 GROSS of the CHOICEST CLAY. PIPES ever offered in the world, namely, the COOEE and BUSH PIPE at West's Cigar Divan, Bridge-street. . 1248