CONTRACT No. 19.

Rations and Medical Comforts (exclusive of Bread and Meat), Hospital, Lunatic Asylum, and Immigration Depot.

PATERSON AND M’LEOD, Princes Street

Arrowroot ... per lb. 0 0 7½
Barley—Pearl ... per 100 lb. 1 0 0
Blue ... per lb. 0 0 6
Butter—Salt ... do 0 1 2
Candles—Price’s Belmont, 16 oz. ... do 0 0 11½
Eggs—Fresh ... per doz. pts 1 6 0
Flour ... per 100 lbs. 0 10 0
Jelly—Calves Feet, Crosse and Blackwell’s p. dz. qts. 2 0 0
Meal—Linseed ... per cwt 2 0 0
Matches—Bell and Black’s Plaids per gross boxes 0 8 6
Mustard—Colman’s ... per lb. 0 0 6
Onions ... do 0 0 6
Pepper, in 7-lb. tins ... do 0 0 8
Pipes—Tobacco ... per dwt. 1 7 0
Rice—Patna ... per lb. 0 0 5
Sago ... do 0 0 4
Starch—Colman’s ... do 0 0 5
Soap—London and Liverpool ... per cwt. 1 10 0
Soap—Provincial ... do 1 6 0
Soda Crystals ... do 0 13 0
Syrup ... per lb. 0 0 5
Salt—Fine ... per 100 lbs. 0 5 0
Sugar—Victorian No. 2 ... per cwt. 2 10 0
Treacle ... per lb. 0 0 5
Tobacco ... do 0 4 0
Vinegar ... per gal. 0 2 0
Ale—quarts, Tennant’s ... do 0 8 6
Do. pints ditto ... do 0 4 6
Do. do. Provincial ... do 2 11 0
Brandy—Hennessy’s ... per doz. 0 11 6
Hollands, J.D.K.Z., full contents ... do 0 8 0
Porter—quarts, Blood’s or Grune’s ... do 0 8 0
pints do. ... do 0 4 6
Do. do. Provincial ... do 1 10 0
Whisky—Campbelton or Islay ... per cwt. 10 0 0

CONTRACT No. 20.

Bread.—Hospital, Lunatic Asylum, and Immigration Depot.

MENZIES & M’TAGGART, Water of Leith,

Bread, per 4 lb. loaf ... s. d. 0 6

CONTRACT No. 21.

Meat.—Hospital, Lunatic Asylum, and Immigration Depot.

EDWARD MENLOVE, George-street, Dunedin,

Beef and Mutton (fresh) ... per lb. 0 4½

CONTRACT No. 22.

Stationery.

A. R. LIVINGSTON, Princes street (south).

Bodkins, with boxwood handles ... each 0 0 7
Letter Copying Books, 750 pages, indexed and titled, half calf (reduced demy, as per sample shown) ... do 1 1 0
Do ... do full ... do 1 6 6
Do Copying, foolscap, 720 leaves, half-bound calf, paged and indexed ... do 0 9 11
Do Medium, ruled faint or faint and red, handmade paper, 6 qrs, half-bound ... do 1 2 0
Do ... do full bound ... do 1 12 0
Do ... do 5 quires, half-bound ... do 1 0 0
Do ... do full bound ... do 1 10 0
Do ... do 4 quires, half-bound ... do 0 18 4
Do ... do full bound ... do 1 7 3
Do ... do 3 quires, half-bound ... do 1 1 9
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 17 6
Do demy, 6 quires, half-bound ... do 1 6 0
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 14 10
Do ... do 5 quires, half-bound ... do 1 3 5
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 18 0
Do ... do 4 quires, half-bound ... do 0 13 10
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 18 0
Do ... do 3 quires, half-bound ... do 0 11 5
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 17 10
Do ... do 2 quires, half-bound ... do 0 10 5
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 16 0
Do foolscap, 6 quires, half-bound, best machine made paper ... do 0 8 4
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 14 10
Letter Copying Books, foolscap, 5 quires, half-bound, best machine made paper ... each 0 7 4
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 11 10
Do ... do 4 quires, half-bound ... do 0 6 9
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 12 0
Do ... do 3 quires, half-bound ... do 0 5 9
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 8 10
Do ... do 2 quires, half-bound ... do 0 4 11
Do ... do full bound ... do 0 8 11
Extra—Index for foolscap ... do 0 0 8
Do demy ... do 0 0 8½
Do medium ... do 0 0 9½
Paging ... per 100 0 0 0
Brushes—Damping, Camel hair ... per inch 0 0 5
Calendars—Letts’s Office, 2 in letter under publishing price ... each 5 per cent. advance or otherwise, on the prices printed in Diaries.

Colors—Carmine, Windsor and Newton’s (Reeves or Newman’s) ... per cake 0 4 0
Do Crimson Lake ... do 0 1 4
Do Gamboge ... do 0 0 10
Do Indigo ... do 0 0 10
Do Prussian Blue ... do 0 0 10
Do Raw Sienna ... do 0 0 10
Do Burnt Sienna ... do 0 0 10
Do All other ordinary ... do 0 0 10
Do Saucers—4½ inches diameter ... per doz 0 2 10
Diaries—Letts’s ... per cent. advance or otherwise, on the prices printed in Diaries.

Envelopes—Adhesive, Cream Laid, 10½ by 4½ in: ... per 1000 0 19 6
Do ... do cloth lined ... per 1000 0 4 11
Cartridge ... do, 15½ by 7 inches ... do 0 3 9
Do ... do 14½ by 5 inches ... do 0 4 0
Do Foolscap ... do, 8½ by 4 inches ... per 1000 0 17 3
Do ... do cloth lined ... per 1000 3 10 0
Do Letter ... per 1000 0 8 4
Do Note ... do 0 6 9
Elastic Bands, series 3, per box of half-gross ... 0 2 9
Do ... do 4 ... per gross 0 8 0
Do large size, No. 55 ... do 0 17 0
Do ... do No. 66 ... each 0 1 0
Erasers—Rodgers’, or equal quality ... do 0 6 0
Eyelet Machines, single ... do 1 8 0
Do ... do double ... do 2 0 0
Do, French, to suit machines ... per 1000 0 2 5
Files—Brass wire, 6 inch, lead bottom 3 lbs. weight ... each 0 1 8
Do ... do with hooks ... do 0 0 10
Gum, Liquid, in glass bottles, with cover and brush complete ... do 0 0 8
Indiarubber (best bottle) ... per lb 0 4 0
Ink—Alizarin, genuine, q. pints ... per bot 0 0 10½
Do Black, Morrell’s, Arnolds, or Todd’s pr qt 0 1 9½
Do pint bottles, do ... per bot 0 0 10½
Do Blue ... per qt 0 2 0
Do Copying, Blackwood’s or Mordan’s, or Todd’s or Stephen’s ... do 0 2 0
Do Red, 2 ... per bot 0 1 3
Do pint bottles, do ... do 0 0 8
Do half pint bottles ... do 0 0 4½
Do quarter pint bottles ... each 0 0 8½
Do Wells, glass or delf ... do 0 2 0
Inkstands—Pewter, double, 8½ by 5½ in ... do 0 8 6
Do ... do 0 0 3½
Do Portable excise ... per inch 0 0 2
Knives—Ivory, paper ... each 0 2 7
Letter-clips, foolscap ... do 0 3 0
Do with cover ... each 0 2 0
Pads—blotting, demy ... do 0 3 0
Paper—Antiquarian, Whatman’s, rough ... per qr. 2 15 0
Do Blotting ... per lb. 0 1 1
Do Continuous, 60 inches wide ... per yd. 0 0 8
Do mounted on lines ... do 0 7 0
Do Copying, foolscap ... per ream 0 5 9
Do Double elephant, Whatman’s ... per qr. 0 15 4
Do Drawing, imperial, do ... do 0 7 0
Do Drying, folio post ... do 0 4 0
Do Foolscap, 14 lbs., cream laid ... per ream 0 11 0
Do ... do ruled, 14 lbs. ... do 0 12 0
Do Letter, cream laid, best, 19 lbs ... do 0 11 0
Do ... do 0 5 0
*Do Note, cream laid, 19 lbs, best ... do 0 11 0
Do Oil, foolscap ... per doz. pieces 0 2 0
Do Tracing, double crown ... per qr. 0 4 0
Do Double double crown ... do 0 6 6
Pen-cleaners, brush ... each 0 2 0
Do ... do 0 1 6
Pen-rack ... do 0 1 6
Pens, steel nibs, Gillott’s No. 351 ... per gross 0 1 9
Do ... do 401 ... do 0 1 9
Do ... do 164 ... do 0 3 9
Do ... do 292 ... do 0 1 9
Do ... do 225 ... do 0 1 9
Do ... do 2 ... do 0 2 0
Do ... do foolscap ... do 0 2 0