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Provincial Secretary's Office, • ■'■■■■■ Nelson, December 7,1860. will be received at this Office, J-\ until HIONDAY, the 14th January, 1861, from persons desirous of EXECUTING the undermentioned WORKS, viz. :— Improving Roads at Clifton; : Improving, Ford at Waitapu; Erecting a Landing Stage afc Motupipi. Specifications of the above may be seen at this office, and at the house of Mr. George Taylor, Takaka. ALFRED DOMETT, 1484 Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, ■ ;? ■ Nelson, lQth December, 1860. SEALED TENDERS will be received at< this office until; WEDNESDAY, the-36th instant, frompersons desirous of. contracting to' execute the uh-' der-meutioned SERVIp.ES for ithe cix months endidg the 30th June next,, yiz: j ' SupplyingST&TiONEßY!to the:seve,r,al government Offices. ; • Also, SPIRITS, WINES, BOTTLED ALE and PORTER; andCOLONIAL ALE to Hospitals Also RATIONStothe Gaol, Lock-up, Hospitals, . and Destitute Poor. ; Also the undermentioned articles, viz.: Beef (fresh), free fronvbone at per lb. ' Mutton „ „ 5 > Suet . . • » Flour (fine) . < „ Bread . • • „ Rice . . • „ Tea . . . Sugar ■ . „ Oatmeal . . .. „ ' Arrowroot , , „ Sago . . „ Butter (fresh) . . „ „ (salt) . „ Salt (fine) . „ Pepper (ground) . . „ Soap . . • » Candles (mould) . . „ „ (sperm) , „ Whiting . . . ~ j Potatoes (good) , „ Tobacco . . „ Linseed Meal . . „ Eggs . . . per dozen Matches . . per dozen boxes Milk . . per quart Vinegar . . • . „ Wick . . peroz. 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. "FENDERS will be received at this office -1- until WEDNESDAY 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 thei Ist day of January 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 Jobs not included in the above portions. . Tenders for the first portion to specify a price per sheet demy Bvo, as well as per sheet of foolscap folio. Tenders will be received for the whole or any separate portion of the above. ALFRED DOMETT, 1496 Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, 10th December. TENDERS will be received at this office -*- 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 six months ending 30th June, 1861. ALFRED DOMETT, 1495 Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson, 1 Oth 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, 1860. TTIS Honor the Superintendent directs it -*--1- 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 , . Colling wood, 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. " If any person shall bargain, sell, or deliver in payment, 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 said standard weights or measures, or the copies 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 sura 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 aile 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. IF you want a iirst-cIass.HAYANNAIi CIGAR; go 'to WEST'S;'' liridge-stree't. 1249 JUST RECEIVED, per"Pbinob Alfred, « 275 GROSS of the CHOICEST CtAY PIPES ever offered in the world; namelyj;;the -COOEE and BtJSH PIPE at West's Cigar Divan t Bridge-street. 1248