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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Tenders Invited.
—
TO IRONMASTERS.—WANTED 100,000 TONS OF
STEEL RAILS.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, New Zealand,
6th November, 1878.

WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at Wel-
lington by the Hon. the Minister for Public
Works up to 30th September, 1879, for the supply
of the whole or any portion of 100,000 tons of steel
rails, to be manufactured within the colony from New
Zealand ores. Payment will be made in cash on
delivery at the works—the Government of New
Zealand agreeing to pay, in addition, one-half of the
cost of the conveyance to the colony by sea of the
workmen to be engaged in the manufacture.

Information as to the mineral resources of New
Zealand, and maps indicating the various localities in
which mineral deposits are situated in relation to
means of transport, may be had on application to the
Agent-General of New Zealand, 7, Westminster
Chambers, Victoria Street, London; or to Walton W.
Evans, Esq., 66, Pine Street, New York.

As it is unlikely that intending contractors will
enter into an engagement of the above nature with-
out first satisfying themselves by personal inspection
as to the position and extent of the raw material in
New Zealand required for the manufacture of iron,
every facility and information on this subject will be
afforded on application to Dr. Hector, C.M.G., F.R.S.,
Director of the Geological Department, Wellington.

For the information of parties desiring to tender,
it may be stated that the official returns show that
there were imported into New Zealand, within the
last eight years, 15,500 tons of cast-iron, and 93,000
tons of wrought-iron, exclusive of iron for Govern-
ment and other railways, during which period 1,068
miles have been constructed and opened for traffic.

JOHN KNOWLES,
Under Secretary for Public Works.

NOTICE.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, New Zealand,
6th November, 1878.

THE foregoing advertisement will be published in
the United Kingdom, the North American
States, and the Continent of Europe.

New Zealand colonists who may have friends and
correspondents connected with the iron manufacture
are requested to be good enough to draw attention to
the highly advantageous and profitable field for enter-
prise which this colony presents to those who can
bring the necessary capital and practical experience
to bear upon such manufacture.

JOHN KNOWLES,
Under Secretary for Public Works.

Inquest concerning alleged Escheat of Land.

UNDER and by virtue of a writ issued out of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, Wellington
District, directed to the Sheriff of the Sheriff's Dis-
trict of Hawke's Bay, and to me delivered, I appoint
Monday, the eighteenth day of November, 1878, at
eleven o'clock in the forenoon, at the Courthouse at
Napier, to be the time and place for the holding of
an inquest of office concerning the alleged escheat to
Her Majesty the Queen of part of Town Section
No. 152, in the Town of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay
County, whereof one John Michael McNalty, de-
ceased, late of Napier aforesaid, an infant under the
age of twenty-one years, heretofore died possessed
as it is alleged.

Any person claiming title to the premises may
appear and support such claim at such inquest.
Given under my hand at Napier aforesaid,
this fourth day of November, 1878.

GEORGE WALTER CULLEN,
Deputy Sheriff of the District of Hawke's Bay.
I consent to the appointment of the Courthouse at
Napier as the place for holding the above inquest.
Dated at Wellington, this twelfth day of Novem-
ber, 1878.

G. GREY,
(for the Colonial Secretary.)

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND,
CANTERBURY DISTRICT.

Between ROBERT HEATON RHODES and WILLIAM
DONALD, Trustees of the real estate of GEORGE
RHODES, deceased, and the said Robert Heaton
Rhodes, plaintiffs, and THOMAS WADSWORTH,
defendant.

NOTICE is hereby given that, under a writ of fieri
facias, duly issued herein out of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand, Canterbury Dis-
trict, against the real and personal estate of the
above-named defendant at the suit of the above-
named plaintiffs, I have seized and taken into execu-
tion all the estate and interest of the above-named
defendant (comprising his estate in fee-simple in
possession, free from all encumbrances) in all that
piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement
thirty acres, or thereabouts, situate in the County of
Geraldine, in the Provincial District of Canterbury,
New Zealand, and being the Rural Section numbered
4407 on the map or plan of the Chief Surveyor of
the late Province of Canterbury, now the said pro-
vincial district, setting out and describing the rural
lands in the Timaru District thereof, together with
the hotel known as the "Orari Hotel," and the other
buildings and erections thereon; and that I intend
to cause the same to be sold by public auction, at
the auction-rooms of Messrs. John King and Co., in
the Borough of Timaru, on the twenty-first (21st) day
of February, 1879, at the hour of eleven o'clock in
the forenoon, unless the judgment-debt and the costs
and expenses of and incidental to this execution be
previously paid and satisfied.

The Solicitor for the Execution Creditors is Arthur
Perry, Esq., of the Main South Road, in the said
Borough of Timaru.
Dated this 4th day of November, 1878.
RICHMOND BEETHAM,
Sheriff of the District of Timaru.

PERRY AND PERRY,
Solicitors, Timaru.
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HEREBY give notice that, under a writ of fieri
facias, duly issued out of the Supreme Court, at
the suit of WILLIAM WADDELL, ARCHIBALD MCLEOD,
and WILLIAM WEIR, all of the City of Wellington,
Timber Merchants, I have taken in execution the
equity of redemption of JOHN BREEN in all that
piece or parcel of land being part of Section 71, on
the plan of the City of Wellington, having a front-
age on the East to Hopper Street of thirty-three
feet by a depth of seventy feet, the southern boun-
dary being distant seventy-six feet from the northern
boundary of Section 70. And that I intend to cause
the same to be sold by public auction, at the rooms
of Messrs. Laery and Campbell, in the City of Wel-
lington, on the sixth day of January, 1879, at two
o'clock in the afternoon.

The Solicitor for the Execution Creditor is Mr.
F. M. Ollivier, of Lambton Quay, Wellington.
Dated 3rd October, 1878.
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A. S. ALLAN,
Sheriff.