TENDERS Wanted for Surfaceman, Abbotsford Sub-Division,

for ensuing year, 3 days per week, at per day.

JAMES THOMSON,
Clerk to Kaikorai Road Board.
2t. 3s.

TENDERS

SUBURBAN ROAD BOARD.

TENDERS Wanted for forming Road through Mr. John Sidey’s Ground, Costorphine Sub-division, 57 chains more or less. Also for erecting a Fence, 114 chains, more or less. Plans and specifications to be seen at the house of Mr. P. McLaren. The Board will be on the ground to show the work on Friday, September 4th, at 2 o'clock. Tenders to be lodged with P. McLaren or John Wilson, on or before Monday, 7th September, 1874. The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted.

ANDREW MASON,
Clerk to the Board.
Aug. 24, 1874.
2t. 9s.

TENDERS Wanted by the Kaikorai Road Board for the following works:—

• Contract No. 4.—Providing 150 yards, road metal on road from Kaikorai road towards Mr. Mason’s property.
• Contract No. 8.—Formation of road near Mr. Kerr’s.
  Plans and specifications to be seen, and Tenders to be lodged at the Kaikorai Hotel, on or before Friday 18th September.

JAMES THOMSON,
Clerk to Kaikorai Road Board.
2t. 7s. 6d.

NOTICE.

A Meeting of the Peninsula Road Board held on the 15th inst., it was resolved to borrow the sum of three thousand (3000) pounds, to be divided amongst the various Sub-divisions in proportion to the amount of Rates collected in each.

Ratepayers having any objections to the measure contemplated, must forward the same to me, in writing, within thirty days from the date of the present advertisement.

WILLIAM HAY,
Clerk to Road Board.
Peninsula Road Board,
25th August, 1874.
4t 17s. 6d.

NOTICE TO ROAD BOARDS.

District Road Boards are reminded of the Account of Receipts and Disbursements for the year ended 30th June, 1874, required by the General Government, which has only yet been furnished by a few of the Boards, and are requested to send it in to this office without further delay.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Under-Secretary.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 25th August, 1874.

TO CARPENTERS.

TENDERS Wanted for additions to the Teacher’s Dwelling-house, Otaika. Plans and specifications to be seen at the School-house. Tenders lodged with the undersigned on or before Monday 28th September, 1874.

PETER LEITCH.
3t. 5s.

WANTED A Teacher for Kingston School, Lake Wakatipu, Salary, Government Allowance and School Fees. Testimonials, with applications, to be lodged with me, or at the Education Office till October 10th, 1874.

F. C. CLAPP, Secretary.

TEACHER WANTED for Waihola District School,

Salary—Government allowance, £100 per annum and School Fees, with free house, good garden, and small paddock. Number of pupils on roll last quarter 60. Applications, with testimonials, to be sent to the undersigned on or before the 3rd day of October, 1874.

THOMAS DOUGLAS,
Chairman of Committee.

TEACHER Wanted for Clinton School, Popotunoa,

Salary, Government Subsidy of £75, and the School Fees. Until the teacher’s residence is erected, an allowance of £25 will be given for house rent.

Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged with the undersigned, on or before 1st November, 1874.

CHA’LES CONNOR,
Secretary.
Manse, Clinton.

SCHOOLMASTER Wanted for the new Government School at Mataura Bridge. Salary—Government allowance and the School fees will, a small residence.

Applications with testimonials to be lodged with me on or before October 1st, 1874.

THOMAS M’GIBBON,
Mataura Bridge.

AMENDED NOTICE.

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 hails 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 those provisions have been complied with.

D. REID,
Provincial Secretary.
Dunedin 7th July 1874.

NOTICE.—ATHENEUMS.

A sum of £1500 having been voted by the Provincial Council to assist in providing buildings to be used as Atheneums in localities where no such buildings have as yet been erected.

It is hereby notified to those desirous of participating in the vote, that in order to do so it will be necessary to forward a written application, stating the amount collected, and giving a general description of the approximate cost of the building proposed to be erected. The sum voted will be distributed pro rata to the contributors of the district, provided that in no case shall the contribution of the Government exceed the sum of £250 to any building.

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

D. REID, Provincial Secretary.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 30th June, 1874.

BONUS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF POTTERY WORKS IN OTAGO.

The Provincial Government, being desirous of encouraging 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 £300—£75.
• On the production of pottery to the 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 pottery ware in each case to be suitable for household or domestic purposes, to be produced in works permanently established in the Province, and to be manufactured either wholly or to a large extent from material obtained in the Province.

Proposals will be received at the Provincial Government 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 parties will be bound in the sum of £100 to produce pottery to the value of £300 within two years from the date on which their offer is accepted.

D. REID, Provincial Secretary.
24th June, 1874.