TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

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Heart of Red Pine for Waitara Bridge.
40,000 feet (more or less) to be delivered at the site; time, 4 months from order, 15s. 6d. per 100 feet; Shuttleworth, Brothers.

Supply of Puriri at Waitara.
10,000 feet (more or less), £1 16s. per 100 feet; R. Rundle.

Lead and Oil.
20 cwt. white lead, £2 8s. cwt.; Linseed oil, 6s. 6d. per gallon; 160 gallons boiled, 6s. 9d. per gallon; only tender received: Brown & Duthie.

Gaol Rations.
No. 1 ration, 1s. 2d.; No. 2 ration, 8d.; No. 3 ration, 4d.; D. Callaghan.

Cooking.
Per diem 3s. 6d.; W. Bosworth.

Firewood.
Per 72 cubic feet, 6s. 8d.; W. Martin.

Rations for Destitute Persons.
Meat, 4d. per lb.; J. Honeyfield.
Bread, 2½d. per lb.; potatoes, ½d. per lb.; D. Callaghan.

Provincial Hospital.
Meat (without bone), 5d. per lb.; J. Honeyfield.
Bread, 2¼d. per lb.; other supplies; D. Callaghan.

Removing House from the Huatoki to the Henui.
£8 10s.; James Corbett.

Earthworks Kent Road.
1,600 yards, run 5 chains, 4½d. per yard; John Lawn, Esau Marsh.

Earthwork approaches to Henui Bridge, Avenue Road.
1,600 yards, run 6 chains, 6¼d.; A. Colson.

Government Printing.
W. H. J. Seffern.
Ford through Kaiwai, No. 12 Road District: £25; John Knight, Richard Speck, and Henry Henderson.

Dry Stone Facing at Oakura Bridge.
40 yards (more or less), 5s. per cubic yard; John Paling.

Earthwork and Ditch, near Waitara.
Earth, 200 yards (more or less), 6d. per yard; ditch, 3 chains, 10s. per chain; J. Johnson.

Earthwork, Mangorei, Devon Road.
Earth, 200 yards (more or less), 5¼d. per cubic yard; laying Culvert, 5s.; forming Road, 8s. per chain; J. Johnson.

Repairs of Toll House.
Labour only, £7; A. Morton.

Taking down Building, Kawau Pah.
£1 5s.; T. Lethbridge.

Puriri Pegs.
1,000 Puriri Pegs, 2 inches square, 20 inches long, pointed, £6; Edwin George.

Toll Gate Keeper, Henui Bridge.
William Henwood, £35 per annum.

Puriri for Katikara Bridge.
2,000 feet (more or less), £2 per 100 feet superficial; time, one month; W. Wilson.

Red Pine for Katikara Bridge.
1,600 feet (more or less), heartwood, 16s. per 100 feet delivered; W. Wilson.

Earthworks approaches to Mangorei Bridge.
500 yards (more or less), run, 4 to 5 chains, 6½d. per cubic yard; A. Colson.

Painting Mangorei Bridge.
Inclusive of piles and outside of abutments, three coats and stopping, materials found, £2 19s. 6d.; James Bellringer.

Half-year’s Supplies.—Iron Work.
Iron tie rods, 1 to 1½ inch, one nut, 3¼d. per lb.; iron tie rods, 1 to 1¼ inch, two nuts, 4d. per lb.; straps, 3¼d. per lb.; bolts, 1 foot to 2 feet 6 inches, 5d. per lb.; bolts, under 1 foot, 6d. per lb.; pile shoes, steeled, 5d. per lb.; pile shoes, not steeled, 4½d. per lb.; other iron work, 6d. per lb.; J. M. Vivian.

[From the New Zealand Gazette.]

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1869.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Major Charles Brown to command the Militia and Volunteers in the Taranaki Militia District.

J. C. Richmond,
(in absence of Colonel Haultain).

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th February, 1869.

It is hereby notified that, in accordance with the Resolution of the House of Representatives on 14th October, 1868, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint a Commission to inquire into and report into the Fisheries of New Zealand, to consist of the under-mentioned persons:—

PROVINCE OF TARANAKI.
The Hon. Henry Scotland, M.L.C.
George Cutfield, Esq.
Thomas King, Esq.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
(Judicial Branch),
Wellington, 17th February, 1869.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by the Hon. Henry Scotland, of Taranaki, of his appointment as Justice of the Peace for the Colony.

E. W. Stafford.