PROVINCE OF WESTLAND GAZETTE.

Provincial Secretary’s Office
Hokitika, February, 12, 1875.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the under-mentioned tenders have been accepted for the twelve months, ending 31st January, 1876.

CHARLES WOOLCOCK,
Provincial Secretary.

RATIONS—GAOL.

W. J. Eastgate.

No. 1 male, 9¼d; female, 6½. No. 2, male, 5d; female, 5d. No. 3, 3d; No. 4, 4d; No. 5, 4d.

Extras—

Arrowroot, per lb., 6½d; sago, do., 3½d; rice, do., 3½d; sugar, do., 6¼; tea, do., 2s; butter, do., 10d; bread, do., 2d; pepper, do., 9d; mustard, do., 10d; tobacco, do., 4s; soap, do., 4½d; whiting, do., 1¼d; brandy, per bottle, 5s; gin, do., 8s 4d; port wine, do., 2s 4d; sherry, do., 2s 4d; porter, per dozen, 14s; ale, do., 12s; milk, per pint, 4d; vestas, per dozen boxes, 2s.

LENAHO ASYLUM.

W. J. Eastgate.

Boiling beef, per pound, 3½; roasting beef, do., 4¼d; mutton, do., 4d; mince meat do., 4d; suet, do., 3½d; bread, 2¼d; potatoes, per ewt., 7s 6d; oatmeal, per lb., 3d; tea, do., 2s; coffee, do., 1s 4d; cocoa, do., 1s 5d; sugar, do., 5¼d; butter, do., 1s; cheese, do., 9d; flour, do., 1½d; maizena, do., 7d; raisins, do., 6½d; arrowroot, do., 7½d; sago, do., 3½; rice, do., 3½d; pepper, do., 3d; mustard, do., 10d; salt, do., 1¼d; soap, do., 4½d; starch, do., 5d; blue, do., 1s; washing soda, do., 1½d; tobacco, do., 4s 2d; eggs, per dozen, 1s; brandy, per bottle, 5s; port wine, do., 2s 4d; sherry, do., 2s 4d; porter, 14s 6d per doz; ale, 12s per doz; blacking (large), 12s 6d per doz; vestas, 2s per doz.; milk, 3d per quart; pipes, 1s per gross; whiting, 1¼d per lb.

DRAPERY.

J. Mulligan and Co.

Moleskin trousers, 9s 6d per pair; twill shirts, 4s 3d each; men’s caps, 3s 9d each; army rugs, 10s 6d each; bed ticking, 1s 4½d per yard; men’s stockings, 11d per pair; red serge, 3s 9d per yard; men’s hose, 16s 6d per dozen; women’s lace-up boots, 7s 3d per pair; grey serge shirts, 7s 1d each.

J. M’Beth.

Drawers, 6s 3d per pair; blucher boots, 11s 6d per pair; wincey (striped), 1s 9d per yard.

HARDWARE.

W. J. Johnston.

Ames’ L.H. shovels, No. 2, 72s per dozen; Ames’ No. 3, L.H. do., 74s per dozen; Day’s No. 2, S.H. do., 50s per dozen; Day’s S.H. shovels, No. 3, 62s per dozen; Sharps’ or Collins’ axes, 85s per dozen; gravel picks, 49s per dozen; grubbing, do., 60s per dozen; mattocks, 53s per dozen; pick handles, 12s per dozen; axe handles, 12s per dozen; black sheet galvanized iron, eight to twenty gauge, 23s 6d per cwt; galvanized sheet-iron, eight to twenty gauge, 42s per cwt; white lead (best) 46s per cwt, (seconds) 38s per cwt; boiled oil, 5s 3d per gallon; turps, 5s per gallon; whitewash brushes, 1s 6d each; scrubbing, do., 1s 3d each; hair brooms, 2s 9d each; bass brooms, 2s each; cut and wrought nails, 3½d per lb.; screws ½-in 9d, 1¼-in 10d, 1½-in 1s, 2-in 1s 4d, 2½-in 1s 9d per gross; hand-saw files, 4-in 3s, 4½-in 3s 6d, 5-in 3s 9d per dozen; Stubb’s hand-saw files, 4-in 5s, 4½-in 5s 6d, 7-in 10s per dozen; pit-saw files, 5-in 7s, 5½-in 7s 6d per dozen; bastard, half-round, 12-in., 1s 4d each; paint brushes, small, 6d each; cross-cut saws, 2s 3d per foot; screw augurs, ½-in 1s 9d, ⅝-in 2s 6d, ¾-in 2s 3d, 1-in 2s 6d; firmer chisels, ½-in 6d, ⅝-in 9d, ¾-in 1s, 1-in 1s 3d; socket chisels, ½-in 1s 3d, ¾-in 1s 4d, 1-in 1s 6d each; leather, sole, 1s 1d per lb; kip, 1s per lb; rim locks, 2s each; carpenters’ locks, 3s 5d each; copper rivets, 4s 9lb per lb.

COALS.

J. Maunders.

Best Grey (screened), 45s per ton.

PRINTING.

Reid and Co.

Gazette: composition, per page, 6s 2d; per token, 3s. Proceedings: composition, per page, 2s 6d; per token, 2s 6d. Half-sheet foolscap forms, per 600, 14s; quarter-sheet foolscap forms, per 500, 10s. Demy forms, composition, per page, 6s; foolscap forms, composition, per page, 4s; foolscap quarto, composition, per page, 2s; foolscap octavo forms, per page, 10d; per token, 3s.