(57)

Forms of tender and any information that may be required may be obtained on reference to this Office.

Tenders to be in duplicate, sealed and endorsed, "Tender for Provisions for Hospital."

By His Excellency’s command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

CONTRACTS FOR COLONIAL SERVICE FOR 1849.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, December 27th, 1848.

TENDERS will be received at this office, until noon on WEDNESDAY, the 10th January, 1849, for furnishing for the Colonial Service the undermentioned supplies, in such quantities, as may be required during the six months ending the 30th June, 1849, upon the conditions hereinafter specified.

SADDLERY, &c. — Breechings, each; brushes, water, each; ditto, body, each; collars, horse, each; combs, curry, each; ditto, mane, each; grease, cart, per lb.; harness, shaft, per set; ditto, leading, per set; harness, per pair; headstalls, each; saddles, cart, each; tar, per gallon.

IRONMONGERY — Axes, carpenters’, each; ditto, pick, each; brads, flooring, per lb.; hammers, stone, steeled, each; hooks, fern, each; hinges, butt, 3 in. and 4 in., per pair; ditto, rising butt, per pair; ditto, T, per pair; locks, mortice, each; ditto, rim, each; ditto, pad, each; nails, spike, per lb.; ditto, weatherboard, per lb.; ditto, shingle, per lb.; ditto, paling, per lb.; ditto, copper sheathing, per lb.; rakes, (large for roads), each; shovels, each; spades, each; screws of sizes, per 100.

TIMBER, KAURI — Boards, at per 100 feet; scantling, 4 in. x 3 in., per 100 feet; ditto, 6 in. x 3 in., per 100 feet; paling, broad, 5 feet, per 100; ditto, narrow, 5 feet, per 100; posts and rails, 8 feet, per 100.

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES — Blocks, single and double, per inch; bricks, per 1000; brooms, hair, each; brushes, scrubbing, each; buckets, water, each; bunting, red, white, yellow, blue, per yard; canvas of sizes, per bolt; carts, hand, each; copper sheathing, per lb.; glue, per lb.; lime, per bushel; oars, per foot; oil, black, linseed, and boiled, per gallon; paint, black, green, yellow, blue and white lead, per lb.; rope of sizes, per cwt.; tar, coal, per gallon; twine, sail, per lb.; wheel-barrows, each; whiting, per lb.

CONDITIONS:

Samples of the various articles will have to be submitted for inspection.

The contractors will be required to deliver the different supplies from time to time, at such places, and in such quantities, as may be indicated by the Colonial Secretary.

The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any of the tenders sent in.

Payment for any of the above supplies will be made at the end of each month.

Tenders to be in duplicate, sealed and endorsed, "Tender for Supply of Stores."

By His Excellency’s command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

In the event of a difference of opinion between the contractor and the officer receiving the supplies, as to the quality, the same is to be decided, in cases where the article is not of a perishable nature, by a board of survey, composed of persons named by the Government, according to the practice of the service. If the board shall decide that the article is not of a proper quality, it must be immediately replaced by the contractor; failing which, it will be procured by the department requiring it, and the expense charged to the contractor.

In cases where the article is of a perishable nature, or in which from some other cause injury would be sustained by waiting for a board of survey, the head of the department or officer in charge for whom the supplies are to be received, shall have power to reject such article or articles as are of inferior quality to the samples approved, and to purchase others at the expense of the contractor.

The tenders to contain the names of the tenderers and their places of residence at length, and to be accompanied by a letter signed by two respectable sureties, engaging to become bound in a penalty of £100 for the due fulfilment of the contract, if the tender be accepted.

By His Excellency’s command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 28th December, 1848.

THE Debenture prepared in accordance with the Ordinance, Session 7, No. 22, in favor of James Harris, and A. J. Hatfield, for the sum of £74 19s. 0d., in virtue of their claims under pre-emption certificates, Nos. 90, 190, 191,—a notification whereof was published in the Government GAZETTE by a notice bearing date the 13th June, 1848—has been cancelled by authority of his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, and two new Debentures for the sum of £37 9s. 6d. each, have been prepared in the names of James Harris and John Probert, respectively; the latter individual having purchased the interest of A. J. Hatfield in the claims above mentioned.

By His Excellency’s command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

ASSESSMENT ON STOCK.

Commissioner of Crown Lands’ Office,
Auckland, 27th December, 1848.

PURSUANT to terms of the 5th clause of the Squatting Regulations, published by proclamation in the Government GAZETTE of the 2nd November, 1848, I give notice that the undermentioned persons are charged with the payment of Assessment on Stock depastured by them on the Waste Lands of the Crown, according to the amount specified opposite their several names; and I hereby warn them to pay such amounts, either personally, or by an