METAL CONTRACTS.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secre-
tary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 28th July,
1874, for

Contract Nos. 950, 951.—Supply of Metal on road
Palmerston to Oamaru.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of
tender obtained, at the office of the Provincial Engineer,
Dunedin, and at Public Works, Oamaru.

Tenders to be endorsed "Tender for Contract No. 949,
950, or 951," as the case may be.

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest
or any tender.

D. REID,
Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 14th July, 1874.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secre-
tary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 21st July,
1874, for

Contract No. 947— Erection of a Stone and Timber
Bridge over the Waianakarua Stream, on Main North
Road.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of
tender obtained, at the office of the Provincial Engineer,
Dunedin, and at Public Works, Oamaru.

Tenders to be endorsed "Tender for Contract No. 947."

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest
or any tender.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secre-
tary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 21st July,
1874, for

Contract No. 948.— Construction of stone and timber
Bridge over the Kakanui River, on Main North Road.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of ten-
der obtained, at the office of the Provincial Engineer,
Dunedin, and at Public Works, Oamaru.

Tenders to be endorsed "Tender for Contract No. 948."

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest
or any tender.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secre-
tary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 21st July,
1874, for

Contract No. 946.— Construction of stone and timber
Bridge over Shag River, on Main North Road.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of ten-
der obtained, at the office of the Provincial Engineer,
Dunedin.

Tenders to be endorsed "Tender for Contract No. 946."

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest
or any tender.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secre-
tary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 21st July,
1874, for

Contract No. 786.— Repairs to Port Molyneux Jetty.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and forms of
tender obtained, at the office of the Provincial Engineer,
Dunedin, and at Post-office, Port Molyneux.

Tenders to be endorsed "Tender for Contract No. 786."

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest
or any tender.

AMENDED NOTICE.

BONUS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
POTTERY WORKS IN OTAGO.

THE Provincial Government, being desirous of en-
couraging the establishment of Pottery Works in
Otago, is prepared to pay a Bonus of £250 as under:—

On the erection of buildings and plant to the value of
at least £500 ... £75.

On the production of pottery to a value of not less
than £150—£75.

On the production of a further quantity of pottery to
a value of not less than £200—£100.

The payments in each case to be available for house-
hold or domestic purposes, table produced in works per-
manently established in the Province, and to be manu-
factured either wholly or to a large extent from material
obtained in the Province.

Proposals will be received at the Provincial Govern-
ment Offices, Dunedin, until the 1st of October, 1874,
and should state the estimated cost and productive power
of the works proposed to be erected, the date at which
the same will be in operation, and that the potter will be
bound to expend, within two years from the date on which
the whole of £250, within the same period, to the satis-
faction of the Provincial Government.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Dunedin, 1st June, 1874.

NOTICE.

A SUM of £100 having been voted by the Provincial
Council to assist in providing buildings to be used as
Athenaeums in localities where no such buildings have
as yet been erected.

It is hereby notified to those desiring to avail them-
selves of the above appropriation, that the sum of ap-
propriated and claimed under general description of the approximate
value of the building proposed to be erected. The sum
will be disbursed only when the claimants can prove to the
satisfaction of the Provincial Government that the build-
ings have been erected and are in use as Athenaeums.

Applications to be received at this office on or before
this 1st day of October proximo, after which date no fur-
ther application for subsidy will be entertained during
the current financial year.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Dunedin, 30th June, 1874.

NOTICE.

OTICE is hereby given that section 2, block 5,
Waipahi District, containing 322 acres, will be
offered for sale by public auction, at the Royal Mail
Hotel, Clinton, on Wednesday, the 9th day of September
next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 7th July, 1874.

NOTICE.

OTICE is hereby given that section 50, block II,
Wyndham District, containing 50 acres, will be
offered for sale by public auction, at the Court-house,
Mataura, on Wednesday, the 9th day of September
next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 2nd July, 1874.

WHALING BONUS. £500.

Open until the first day of Nov. 1874.

THE Provincial Government will pay £250 by way of
Bonus to the first vessel which leaves the Province
fully equipped for a whaling cruise, provided such vessel
shall leave on or before the 1st day of November, 1874;
also £250 on her returning to the Province with a cargo
of oil; provided that such vessel is owned in, and hauls
from a port within the Province. Vessel not to be under
150 tons. Provided also that she carries at least five
boys as apprentices. Bonus will be paid on production
of certificate from the Harbor Master that these provi-
sions have been complied with.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.

Dunedin 7th July 1874.

TUESDAY, JULY 28.

NOTICE is hereby given that the license to occupy
section 66, block VII, Waipahi District, 75a. 1r.,
under the 161st clause of the Otago Waste Land Act,
1872, will be offered for sale by public auction at the
Royal Mail Hotel, Popotunoa, on Tuesday, the 28th
day of July next, immediately after the sale of the Town-
ship of Clinton, at the upset price of £1.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 2nd July, 1874.