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 308 THE BUILDING NEWS. Aprit 12, 1872. OPEN COMPETITIONS. Lonpon.—The Painters’ Company invite competition for three prizes in “‘ Alto Relievo” and ‘ Decorative Painting.” Specimens to be sent in between the 18th and 25th of May.—H. D. Pritchard, Clerk, Painters’ Hall, Little Trinity-lane, Queen Victoria-street, E.C. HEREFORDSHIRE, April 15.—For plans and designs for a new workhouse at Ross, to accommodate 300 inmates. A premium of £40 will be given for the best plan and eleyation—H. Minett, Clerk to the Guardians, Ross. ScARBOROUGH, June 1,—For plans and proposals for laying out and altering the recently acquired property beyond the Spa, and in connection with the existing grounds of the company. A premium of £100 is offered for the best, and £50 for the second best design.—F. Gooprickr, Manager, Cliff Bridge Company’s Offices, Scarborough. KINGSTON-UPON-HucL,—For plans and specifica- tions for the erection of a school, in Daltry-street, for 750 children, for the School Board. Premiums of £50 for the best and £25 for the second best set of plans and specifications.—R. J. O'Donoghue, Clerk to the Board, Town Hall, Hull. Benwick, April 15.—For plans or designs for pro- posed school buildings for boys and girls, and teacher's (eight-roomed) house.—W. Downs, Clerk, Benwick, Rainsey, Hunts. S. PETERSBURG, July 13.—For a design for a per- manent bridge over the River Neya, at the place now occupied by the Litenaia floating bridge. A prize of 6,000 silver roubles (about £825) will be given for the design the committee consider as best fulfilling the conditions; also a prize of 3,000 silver roubles (about £412 10s.) and 1,500 silver roubles (about £206 5s.) for the two next best designs.—Municipal Council, S. Petersburg. Lonpon Scnoon Boarp, May 8.—For designs for a public elementary school for 1,000 children, in Beazley-crescent, Old Ford. No premium is offered, but it isintended to place the workin the hands of the successful competitor.—The Clerk to the Board, 33, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, E.C. ————— CONTRACTS OPEN FOR BUILDING ESTIMATES. Crry, April 30.—For the purchase of 1a. 3r. 2p. (or thereabouts), part of the site of their present school, with the buildings thereon, of the School for the Indi- gent Blind, City.—Messrs. Grueber & Cooper, 5, Billiter-street, E.C. Trees ConsEeRVANCY, April 19.—For blasting and removing the rock called Eight Buoy Scarp.—J. Settle, Secretary, Stockton-on-Tees. BRADFORD, April 16.—For the construction of two compensation reservoirs and other works at Leeming and Leeshaw, at Oxenhope.—W. T. McGowen, Town Clerk, Corporation Offices, Bradford. CampuHict, April 15.—For the erection of station buildings at Camphill Station, for the Midland Railway Company.—Mr. Bowker, Goods Station, Lawley- Street, Birmingham. PETERBOROUGH, April 15.—For the erection of engine drivers’ lodgings at Peterborough, for the Midland Railway Company.— Engineers’ Office, Crescent Station, Peterborough. Hotynean, April 18.—For the erection of a house at Holyhead, for the North Western Railway Company. —Mr. ©. Hall, Estate Office, Euston Station. GAYLE (near Hawes, Yorks).—For enlarging a dwelling house.—Tenders can be seen till April 30, at Mr. J. K. James, Architect, South Church Side, Hull. Lonpbon, April 15.—For the erection of a theatre capable of holding 3,000 persons.—Messrs. Dean, Son, and Matthews, Architects, 5, Mark-lane, E.C. Bristou, April 25.—For the erection of two blocks of houses, to be erected in Jacob’s Wells, Bristol, for 36 residences for the industrial classes.—Mr. J. A. Clarke, Architect, 23, Broad-street, Bristol. KNARESBOROUGH, April 22.—For the erection of a vicarage house for Trinity Church.—James Fawcett, Architect, Castlegate, Knaresborough, and 16, S. James-row, Sheffield. Acton April 23.—¥For laying a 12in. pipe sewer, from the Rothschild-road to the Palmerston-road.— KE. Monson, C.E., Clerk to the Acton Local Board, High-street, Acton. ADDLEsTON, April 26.—For the erection of a Bap- tist Chapel.—Mr. Wonnacott, Architect, Guildford- Street, Chertsey, Surrey. TINGEN, NEAR PRESTEIGN, April 20.—For the erection of a school and residence. —T. Nichol- son, F.1.B.A., Architect, S. Peter’s-square, Hereford. BERRINGTON, NEAR Leominster, Aprill7.—For the erection of new farm homesteads and cottages on the Berrington Estates.—Mr. J. Irvines, Hill House, near Leominster. WANSTEAD.—For the erection of a detached villa. —Mr. Clark, 1, Bury-street, S. Mary Axe, E.C. Denny, April 15.—For the erection of boys’, girls’, and infants’ schools, outbuildings, boundary walls, &c., in Gerard-street, for the School Board.—W. Cooper, Clerk to the Board, 90, Green Hill, Derby. FoLKesToneE.—For building a mews, consisting of nineteen stables and a yard—Mr. W. Emden, 8, Adam-street, Adelphi, W.C. ; Uprron.—For the erection of a pauper lunatic asylum for 540 patients.—Quantities may be obtained of R. Griffiths, architect, Stafford, on and after April 20. CHESTERFIELD, April 15.—For the erection of a wing and making other extensive additions and altera- tions to the hospital—Mr. Fearn, architect, 31, Holy- well-street, Chesterfield, MARKET DRAytToN, April 30.—For the erection of a turret clock in the parish church.—T. Rought Jones, Secretary, Clock Committee, Market Drayton. S. Luke's (Middlesex), April 22.—For repairing the carriage and footways of Chiswell and certain other streets—W. H. Hayne, Vestry Offices, 225, City-road, E.C. Frimvey, April 22.—For inclosing the old and new Burial Grounds and other works for the Frimley Burial Board.—Mr, T. Goodchild, Architect, 6, Duke- street, Adelphi, W.C. Hornsey, April 15.—For watering the roads for the Hornsey Local Board.—W. Hammond, Clerk to the Board, Southwood-lane, Highgate, N. PEcKHAM.—For completing thirty-three houses.— Messrs. Standing & Marten, Bourne Valley Wharf, Nine Elms, Metyn, April 20.—For the erection of extensive school buildings at the Melyn Works, Neath, Glamor- ganshire.—Mr. J. Norton, Architect, 24, Old Bond- street, W. Maryport, April 15.—For the construction of a new dock in Maryport Harbour.—Mr. J. Hawkshaw, C.E., 33, Great George-street, Westminster. SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA.—For the construction of areservoir of about 16,000 cubic yards for the Cleve- land Water Works.—Cleveland Water Works Office, Saltburn-by-the-Sea. TaunTon.—For the utilisation and disposal of the sewage of the town of Taunton for the Local Board.— Mr. James Henry Smith, Surveyor, East-street, Taunton, PEERLESS Poot Estatre.—For the erection of eighteen eight-roomed houses in Baldwin and Rads- worth-streets. Mr. J. Collier, Salters-Hall, S. Swithin’s- lane. Wanpswortn, April 16.—For the supply of lamp columns, Board of Works, Wandsworth District.— A. A. Corsellis, Clerk to the Board, Battersea-rise, Wandsworth, S.W. CRYSTAL PALACE PARK Estate, April 15.—For laying Yin. and 12in. pipe drains in the Penge and Thicket-roads.—J. Norton, Esq., Architect, 24, Old Bond-street, W. Dersy, April 24.—For repaving with granite cubes, din. by 4in., the whole of the Derby Market-place.— J. Jones, Clerk to the Board, Full-street, Derby. ForveEN, April 23.—For additions, alterations, and repairs to the Forden Union Workhouse.—Mr. G. Bidlake, Architect, Wolverhampton. Lonpon, April 17.—For the erection of a goods shed, at Old Ford, Bow, for the London and North Western Railway.—Mr. Smith, Clerk of Works, Chalk Farm New Station, Camden Town. Bristou, April 16.—For the erection of station buildings at Brislington, Pensford, Clutton, Midsomer Norton, and Radstock, on the Bristol and North Somerset Railway.—W. Clarke, C.E., 45, Parliament- street, S.W. So BATH AND OTHER BUILDING STONES, OF BEST QUALITY. RANDELL, SAUNDERS & 00,, Limited, Quarrymen and Stone Merchants. List of prices at the Quarries and Depots, also cost of transit to any part of the United Kingdom, furnished on application to BATH STONE OFFICE: CORSHAM, WILTS. — TO ARCHITECTS. GREEN ROOFING-SLATES. Assupplied to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales at Sandringham The Penmoyle Sea-green Slates are specially adapted for Churches, Public Buildings, &c., &c. (Less costly than ordinary Gothic Tiling.) These durable and non-absorbent Slates can be obtained in sizes suitable for Gothic Architecture, at prices at under. In Railway Trucks, Docks, Gloucester:— Per Equivalentto 1,200 Slates. per square. [Apvt.] Best Green Slates14by7... ww. 217 6 ... 16s. 6d. Do. do. 13by8... «. 217 6 ... 165.6. Do. do. 13 by 7 i.. “0 25° 0... Ids. Do. do. IDby 7 We sr AO 6) ce, 188. Do. © do. Ijby- Bien eG he. De: Prices of large Sizes, Cost of Transit, Reference Testi- monials, and Sample Specimens may be obtained on ap- plication to MESSRS. RANDELL & CO., Corsham, Wilts. Specimens at Museum of Geology, Jermyn-street, Picca- dilly, W., and at Architectural Museum, Tufton street, Westminster, BANKERUPTS. TO SURRENDER IN THE COUNTRY. Thomas Beaumont, Higher Broughton, brickmaker, April 17, at Salford. SITTINGS FOR PUBLIC EXAMINATION. May 15, J. B, Haines, Cambridge, builder.—April 30, J. Oates, Halifax, stonecutter.—May 6, J. Kirkman, Derby, builder. DIVIDEND MEETING. April 23, M. Baldwin, Bishopwearmouth, painter and glazier. DECLARATION OF DIVIDEND. J. & 8S. Rinder, Leeds, contractors, diy. 10s, SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Thomas Adams, Dundee, plumber, April 13, at 12— William Hutton, Edinburgh, wood merchant and builder, April 16, at 2. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Barrett & Co., Halifax, iron and brass founders.—Ban- croft & Duckitt, Halifax and elsewhere, ironfounders.— Wilkinson & Co., Burnley, machinists and ironfounders. —Carr & Metcalfe, Keighley, stonemasons—J. & W. H. Green, Oakworth, near Keighley, builders.—Jones, Hoo- son, & Co., Stockport, iconfounders.—Hindley & Newton, Nottingham, painters.— Pierce & Bennett, Liverpool, timber merchants.—Lomax & Griffiths, Hindley, builders. —_>—_. LATEST PRICES OF MATERIALS USED IN CONSTRUCTION. LeAD. Pig—Foreign. . . . -perton £19 2 6 £19 7 6 is English W.B. .. do 91°10" 0! 21 670 Lead Oo.1.) 2h 5 do 20 5 0 000 » Otherbrands. .. do 1915 0 200 0 Sheet Milled... . . do 2015 0 00 0 Shot, Patent. ....- do 2210 0 000 Redorminium. ... do 2210 0 000 Litharge,W.B.. ... do 22 0 0 000 White Dry. ..... do 2710 0 000 » groundinoil . . do 000 000 COPPER. British—Cake&Ingot .perton £98 0 0 £101 0 G Best Selected . . .. do 101 0 O 103 0 0 Sheetie ect cere were eo 103 0 0 106 0 0 Bottoms! s:lisy shus tients 10 105 0 0 108 0 0 Australian .... .- do 100 0 0 106 0 0 SpanishCake .... do 000 000 Chili Bars,cash ... do 98 0 0 100 0 0 » Refinedingot .. do 103 0 0 000 Yellow Metal . .. .perlb. 0 0 8f 0 0 9 TRON. 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