THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1629

year’s return, the number on which assessment is payable now being 297,765, yielding £620 6s. 10½d. per annum. All the flocks within the district are reported free from scab.

Jos. G. Holdsworth,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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 Wellington 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., 66½, Pine Street, New York.

As it is unlikely that intending contractors will enter into an engagement of the above nature without 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 Government 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 enterprise 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.

I 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 boundary 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 Wellington, 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.

A. S. Allan,
Sheriff.

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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 District, 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 execution 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 provincial 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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LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several parcels of land hereinafter described will be brought under the provisions of “The Land Transfer Act, 1870,” unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same within one month from the date of the gazetting this notice.

GEORGE CHALLIS.—121 acres 1 rood 15 poles, part of Section 1, Block VII., Jacob’s River Hundred. Unoccupied. No. 1163.

JOHN HELM.—20 acres, Section 41, Forest Hill Hundred. Occupied by Thomas Fleming. No. 1165.

THOMAS HELM.—30 acres, Section 23, Forest Hill Hundred. Occupied by Thomas Fleming. No. 1166.

Diagrams may be inspected at this office.

Dated this 13th day of November, 1878, at the Lands Registry Office, Invercargill.

C. M. Henning,
District Land Registrar.

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