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BOROUGH OF AUCKLAND.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, 8th Dec., 1851.

HIS Excellency the LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR directs it to be notified, for general information, that

Archibald Clark, draper, of the Middle Town Ward,

having been elected Mayor for the Borough of Auckland, has, pursuant to the provisions of the Royal Letters Patent, in virtue of such his office, become a Justice of the Peace of and for the said Borough, during a period of two years next following on his Election; and that

Patrick Dignan, publican, West Town Ward,

James O’Neill, settler, Suburban West Ward,

William Powditch, settler, Epsom West Ward,

William Mason, farmer, Tamaki East Ward,

having been elected Aldermen of the Borough of Auckland, have, pursuant to such their office, become Justices of the Peace of and for the said Borough so long as they shall continue in the discharge of such their office of Aldermen.

By His Excellency’s command,

Andrew Sinclair,

Colonial Secretary.

CONTRACTS FOR COLONIAL SERVICE FOR 1852.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, Dec. 2, 1851.

TENDERS will be received at this office, until noon on WEDNESDAY, the 24th instant, for furnishing, for the Colonial Service, the undermentioned supplies, in such quantities as may be required during the six months commencing 1st January, 1852, 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; hames, per pair; head-stalls, 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, weather-board, 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. by 3 in., per 100 feet; ditto, 6 in. by 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.

STORES — 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 “Tenders for Supply of Stores.”

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.

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.

STATIONERY, &c.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,

Auckland, Dec. 2nd, 1851.

TENDERS will be received at this office, until noon on WEDNESDAY, the 24th instant, for the supply of such quantities of the undermentioned articles as may be required for the Public Service during the six months commencing on the 1st of January, 1852.

Books, demy ... at per quire.

Ditto, foolscap ... ditto.

Envelopes, foolscap, per 100.