NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 33

Superintendent's Office,
Nelson, March 16, 1876.

THE Superintendent directs it to be notified that
he has refused to grant a lease for Goldmining
purposes of the Crown Lands within the Nelson
South-west Goldfields hereinafter described, viz.:—

CHARLESTON DISTRICT.

1. A block of land containing four acres, one
   rood, more or less, situated at Fenian Flat.
   Applied for by Patrick O'Brien and Patrick
   Walsh, No. 778.

EUGENE O'CONOR,
Provincial Secretary.

Superintendent's Office,
Nelson, March 16, 1876.

THE Superintendent directs it to be notified that
he has refused to grant a lease for Goldmining
purposes of the blocks of land hereinafter described,
viz.:—

CHARLESTON DISTRICT.

1. A block of land containing three acres, two
   roods, and thirty perches, more or less,
   situated at the Nine-mile Beach. Applied
   for by Jonathan Harle. No. 251.

2. A block of land containing twenty-three acres,
   one rood, and thirty-eight perches, more or
   less, situated at the Nine-mile Beach.
   Applied for by John Sullivan. No. 254.

INANGAHUA DISTRICT.

3. A block of land containing thirteen acres,
   three roods, and twenty-four perches, more
   or less, situated on the north bank of the
   Inangahua, and westward of Reefton.
   Applied for by George Anderson. No. 250.

EUGENE O'CONOR,
Provincial Secretary.

[Extracts from New Zealand Gazette.]

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, February 22, 1876.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful
Tenderers is published for general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

MOUNT ROCHFORT RAILWAY—WAIMANGAROA
CONTRACT.
(PERMANENT WAY, ETC.)

Accepted.

W. H. Topham, Invercargill, ... £2,181 0 0

Declined.

Maher and O'Connor, Westport ... 2,322 0 0
John Scott, Nelson ... 2,393 15 0
Thomas H. Kerr & Co., Hokitika ... 2,685 0 0
R. W. Humphrey, Westport ... 2,709 17 0
Edward Butler, Greymouth ... 2,932 10 0
Owen Griffin, Wellington ... 3,362 10 0
D. O'Sullivan, Greymouth ... 3,378 6 8
R. Trouland and Co., Westport.. 3,625 5 6
John Williams, Westport ... 4,823 12 0

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, March 14, 1876.

THE following lists of successful and unsuccessful
Tenderers are published for general information.

EDWARD RICHARDSON.

WESTPORT—MOUNT ROCHFORT RAILWAY.
NOAKAWAU CONTRACT.

Accepted.
John Henderson, Wellington ... £33,573 0 0

Declined.
R. W. Humphrey, Westport ... 35,938 0 0
Thomas Kerr and Co., Hokitika ... 36,988 0 0
Edward Butler & Michael Brennan, Greymouth 37,753 0 0
David Proudfoot, Dunedin ... 38,967 0 0

UPPER MOTUEKA ROAD BOARD.

THE Undersigned hereby gives notice that he in-
tends to apply to two or more Justices of the
Peace having jurisdiction within the Province of
Nelson, at a sitting to be held on Monday, the 5th
day of June next, at the Court-houses, Richmond, for
an order for stopping up and diverting the under-
mentioned roads; and further, that he will cause
Survey Plans of the roads proposed to be stopped
up and substituted, with Books of Reference and
Estimates, to be deposited on or before the 1st day
of April next, with the Clerk to the Magistrates at
Richmond :—

To stop up a certain road commencing at a point ten
chains from the south-east side of Section 71, and
proceeding for the first ten chains in a northerly
direction, thence for thirty chains in a north-westerly
direction, thence for eighty-four chains north-north-
west, passing through part of Section 71, through
Section 72, and through part of Section 74, and
terminating at the junction of the proposed new road
with the old road.

And to substitute a certain other road commencing at a
public road at a point thirteen chains from the north-
west corner of Section 71, and proceeding north-north-
west for 97 chains, thence north-west for fifteen
chains to the junction with the old road.

The width of the proposed road is one chain.

BOOK OF REFERENCE.

ESTIMATED EXPENSE.

The exchange of one line of road for the other.

D. LINDSAY, Secretary.

Motueka Valley, March 31, 1876.