PATRIOTIC FUND, NEW ZEALAND.

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the publication of the following despatch from the Honorable the Colonial Secretary.

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

8th Jan., 1864.

Circular 40.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 21st Sept., 1863.

SIR,

The General Assembly has appropriated out of the Colonial Revenue for this year, the sum of Two Thousand Pounds (£2,000) towards a Patriotic Fund for the support of the wives and families of those of Her Majesty’s Regular and Colonial Forces who have fallen and may hereafter fall, in the course of the present war in this Colony.

I am sure that the inhabitants and Legislature of each Province will be anxious to contribute to a fund which has for its benevolent object the succour and relief of those who, by the loss of their husbands and parents in battle, or by death on active service in the present war, are unable to maintain or support themselves.

I gladly, therefore, invite your Honor’s co-operation in this matter, by requesting you to be good enough to give general publicity to the intention of the General Assembly, and to take such other steps as may appear to your Honor to be calculated to give it additional effect.

I have the honor to be,

SIR,

Your most obedient Servant,

FRED. WHITTAKER,
For the Colonial Secretary.

His Honor the Superintendent, Otago.

RATTAY STREET JETTY.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary of Public Works till noon of Monday, the 25th day of January, 1864, for a Platform, and work connected therewith.

Plans and Specifications may be seen, at the office of the Provincial Marine Engineer.

GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary of Public Works.

POLICE FORAGE.

TENDERS will be received at the Provincial Storekeeper’s Office till noon, of 19th inst., for supplying the Mataura and East Taieri Police Stations with Forage, (Oats, Oaten Hay and Bran,) for the period ending 30th June, 1864.

Forms of tender can be obtained at any of the Police Stations in the Mataura and Tokomairiro district.

THOMAS DICK,
Provincial Secretary.

PUBLIC WORKS.

LIST of Tenders Accepted and Contracts Signed, to 11th January, 1864:—

UNDER PROVINCIAL ENGINEER.

Toll Houses (7).—Chas. Nees, £2085.

Dead House at Port Chalmers.—George Connon, £117.

School and Master’s House, Waipori.—John Beck, £648.

Furniture and Fencing, &c., Green Island School.—Hig het & Kennedy: Furniture, Gates, &c., £30.; Fencing, per chain, £1 10s.

Lock-up, West Taieri.—Halley & Ewing, £91.

School and Master’s House, North Taieri.—H. C. M’Cormick, £687 8s.

Removal of building from Military Barracks, and re-erection at Hospital.—Wm. Marris & Co., £52.

Telegraph Posts, Clutha to Waitaki.—James M’Kenzie, £6270.

UNDER MARINE ENGINEER.

1. Contract for construction of Pomahaka Jetty, for the sum of £470 17s. sterling, with Mr. James Gore, Moray Place, Dunedin. Signed 22nd Dec., 1863.

2. Contract for the erection of a Crane at Pomahaka Jetty, for the sum of £145, with Mr. Alexander Cairns, Dunedin. Signed 23rd Dec., 1863.

By order.

GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary of Public Works.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary of Public Works, till noon, of the following Mondays:

18th January, for the supply of five Horses, and five drivers for the Government Works at Bell Hill. The Horses and drivers to be subjected to the approval of the Provincial Engineer.

18th January, for Six Dobbin Carts. Further particulars may be obtained at the office of the Provincial Engineer.

25th January, for the Erection of a Bridge over the Waikouaiti River, near Cherry Farm. Plans and Specifications may be seen, and forms of Tender obtained, at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin; or at the Police Station, Waikouaiti.

25th January, the time for receiving Tenders for the Port Chalmers Court House, is extended, till noon, of Monday, the 25th January, 1864. Plans and Specifications may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, till the 18th instant; and after that date, at the Harbour Office, Port Chalmers.

GEORGE DUNCAN,
Secretary of Public Works.