942

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 65

Declined.
Rock-boring Machine, capable of boring at various
P. McGrath, Rangiora (alternative tender in-
angles a core of 1\frac{1}{2} inch diameter to a depth of 1,500
formal)
feet, with all steam appliances complete, accompanied
W. Rowe, Greymouth
by an engineer in charge and assistants, at the price
J. Saunders, Wellington
of-
Downes and Proctor, Dunedin
10/ per foot for the first 100 feet, or any part of 100 feet, bored.
P. McGrath, Rangiora
12/6 " second " " "
Thomas Denby, Wanganui
15/ " third " " "
J. C. George, New Plymouth
17/6 " fourth " " "
Stevenson and Hughes, Hawera
21/ " fifth " " "
Joseph Mulree, Inglewood
25/ " sixth " " "
Joseph Mulree, Inglewood
30/ " seventh " " "
E. J. T. Price, Greymouth
35/ " eighth " " "
17,912 0 0 40/ " ninth " " "
W. G. Bassett, Stratford
45/ " tenth " " "
and upon the following conditions:—

Steam Service to Fiji.

1. After one thousand feet special rates will be
   General Post Office,
   charged.
   Wellington, 18th June, 1880.
2. All applications must be accompanied by a
   SEALED tenders will be received at the General
   deposit of £50 for the first hundred or any less
   Post Office, Wellington, until noon of Saturday,
   number of feet bored. Further payments to be
   the 3rd day of July proximo, for the performance of
   made monthly, upon a fixed day, according to the
   a four-weekly steam service between Auckland and
   above scale, as the work proceeds.
   Fiji, for periods of one or two years.
3. The scale of charges is exclusive of fuel and
   The service to be performed in accordance with a
   water, which will be supplied by the hirer.
   time-table to be furnished by the Postmaster-General,
4. The hirer will be at the charge of sinking and
   which will provide for connecting at Auckland with
   protecting any shaft which may be necessary for
   the steamers of the San Francisco mail service.
   finding the rock before boring operations commence,
   Tenderers to state the names, tonnage, and horse-
   and the measurement of depth bored will be from the
   power of the vessels to be employed in the service;
   surface of the rock.
   also their carrying capacity and passenger accommo-
5. The hirer to find covering-shed for the
   dation.
   machinery.
   The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be
6. The engineer in charge will deliver to the hirer
   accepted, and the acceptance of any tender will be
   an accurate account of the depths of the borings,
   subject to the voting of the necessary funds by
   and all cores of rocks bored will be the property of
   Parliament.
   the hirer.
   Tenders to be addressed to the Hon. the Post-
7. The machine will be removed if the hirer causes
   master-General, and indorsed "Tender for Fiji Steam
   any unreasonable delays or obstacles to prevent its
   Service."
   continuous working, or if payment for its hire is not
   regularly made.
   W. GRAY,
   By order.
   Secretary.
   OLIVER WAKEFIELD,
   Under-Secretary for Mines.
   Member of House of Representatives elected.

Civil Service Literary Prize.
Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1880.
Office of the Civil Service Examination Board,
THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return
Wellington, 20th March, 1880.
to the writ issued by him on the 26th day of
AN offer having been made to the Civil Service
May, 1880, for the election of a Member to serve
Examination Board of a sum of £5 per annum,
in the House of Representatives of New Zealand for
for five years, to provide for prizes for the best essays
the electoral district hereinafter specified; and by the
on the principles and practice of Parliamentary
indorsement on such writ it appears that the under-
Government, and cognate subjects, the Board an-
mentioned gentleman has been duly elected Member
nounce that the subject for the present year shall be
for such district, viz. :-
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY
For the District of Waitaki :
IN ENGLAND.
GEORGE JONES.
Prize to be competed for under the following con-
G. S. COOPER,
ditions :—
Clerk of the Writs.

1. Competition to be open to all persons under the
   Government Insurance Office opened.
   age of 25 years at this date who have passed either
   Government Insurance Department,
   the Junior or Senior Civil Service Examination, and
   Wellington, 17th June, 1880.
   who are in the Civil Service at the time of competition.
   NOTICE is hereby given that the Post Office at
2. The prize to be in books or money, at the option
   the under-mentioned place has been opened as
   of the prize-taker.
   a Government Life Insurance Office :—
3. Essays to be legibly written, and on one side of
   WAIKARI, Canterbury.
   the paper only.
   D. M. LUCKIE,
4. Essays to be delivered to the Secretary of the
   Commissioner.
   Civil Service Examination Board, Wellington, by the
   Terms and Conditions for Hiring Diamond Rock-
   31st December, 1880.
   Boring Machine.
5. No competitor to allow his name to appear on
   Mines Department,
   this essay, but to adopt a motto or cypher, which is
   Wellington, 28th May, 1880.
   also to be written on a sealed envelope containing
   APPLICATIONS will be received at this office
   the author's name, and attached to the essay.
   from persons desirous of hiring a Diamond
6. The prize will not be awarded unless there is an
   essay which, in the judgment of the examiners, is
   of sufficient merit to entitle the author to receive it.