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Rulers, round, any length, 2d. per inch.

Ribbon, green or blue silk, 1/4 in. wide, per piece of 36 yards, 3s. 6d.

Scissors, Office :
5 inches long, 1s. 2d. each.
7 inches long, 1s. 8d. each.
9 inches long, 2s. 6d. each.

Stationery Cabinets : Mahogany or rosewood, French polished, with drawers, folding doors, lock and key, containing two cut-glass ink, divisions for foolscap, letter and note paper envelopes, &c., &c., 72s. 6d. each.

Stationery Cases : Cedar, French polished, containing divisions for foolscap, letter and note papers, envelopes, pen tray, &c., 10s. each.

Sealing Wax:
Best hard India, 3s. 5d. per lb.
Imperial vermilion, 3s. per lb.
Post Office, 1s. per lb.

Silk Cord, for sewing, at per skein, 1s.

Stands for Copying Press: Large portfolio, mahogany, French polished, three drawers and damping box, 73s. 6d. each.
Ditto, foolscap size, ditto, 71s. 6d. each.

Tape:
Red, No. 16 (9 yards in piece), 1s. 8d. per dozen pieces.
" No. 24 ditto, 2s. 1d. per ditto.
" No. 32 ditto, 3s. per ditto.

Twine:
Sample No. 1, 1s. 3d. per lb.
" No. 2, 1s. 1d. per lb.
" No. 3, 1s. 3d. per lb.

Wafers, Signet, 2 1/4 in. diameter, 1s. 3d. per 100.

Vellum Tracing Cloth:
30 in. wide, 1s. 3d. per yard.
36 in. wide, 1s. 5d. per yard.

Water Colors, all ordinary colors, 8d. per cake.

Strops, 3s. 6d. dozen set.

Sperm Candles :
Beimont, Neva, Stearine or Brandon, full weight, 1s. 2d. per lb.
Ditto, ditto, ditto, light weight, 11d. per lb.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1866.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following Tenders have been accepted by the Government.
W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

CHARLES BULL, for Bookbinding for twelve months, commencing 1st April, 1866, at the following rates:—
Demy folio books, 4 quires and under : Whole bound rough calf, gilt lettered on back, short title and date, 8s. 9d. (eight shillings and nine pence).
For every additional quire, 9d. (ninepence).
Ditto, ditto : Half-bound, rough calf, cloth sides, gilt lettered on back, short title and date, 7s. (seven shillings).
For every additional quire, 8d. (eightpence).
Foolscap folio books, 4 quires and under : Whole bound, calf, gilt lettered on back, short title and date, 7s. 3d. (seven shillings and threepence).
For every additional quire, 8d. (eightpence).
Ditto, ditto : Half-bound calf, cloth sides, gilt lettered on back, short title and date, 5s. 6d. (five shillings and sixpence).
For every additional quire, 5d. (fivepence).
Ditto, ditto : Half-bound calf, marble-paper sides, gilt lettered on back, short title and date, 4s. 6d. (four shillings and sixpence).
For every additional quire, 5d. (fivepence).
Demy 4to, 4 quires : Ditto, ditto, 3s. 9d. (three shillings and ninepence).
Demy 8vo : Ditto, ditto, 2s. 9d. (two shillings and ninepence).
Cold pressing and binding in blue paper covers, Statutes, Journals, and Appendix of General Assembly at per quire, 5 1/2d. (fivepencehalfpenny).
Folding, stitching and cutting Parliamentary papers, 8 pages or under, at per hundred, 1s. 6d. (one shilling and sixpence).
For every additional sheet, 6d. (sixpence) per one hundred.

W. HICKSON, SON, and Co., for the supply of best Newcastle (N.S.W.) Coal, screened, and delivered at the Public Offices at fifty-two shillings and sixpence (52s. 6d.) per ton.

BENJAMIN REEVE, for the supply of Firewood, Rata or Manuka, cut and split to suit fireplaces :—
Two feet lengths, one pound ten shillings (£1 10s.) per cord.
One foot length, two pounds two shillings (£2 2s.) per cord.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1866.

THE following Notice, received from the General Post Office, London, respecting the extension of and alterations in the Money Order System, is published for general information.
E. W. STAFFORD.

MONEY ORDER OFFICES.
England.

1. Money Order Offices will be opened in London and its Suburbs on the 1st of January, at—

2. The designation of the undermentioned Offices will be changed as follows :—