[Provincial Government of Canterbury]

Tenders for Canterbury Loan

Copies of the Canterbury Loan Ordinance, 1862, may be seen at the offices of the following Agents acting for the Provincial Government of Canterbury:

• Messrs. Miles & Co., Melbourne.
• Gilchrist, Watt & Co., Sydney,
• also at the office of the Provincial Secretary, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Tenders must be sent in under seal, marked "Tenders for Canterbury Loan," and addressed to the Provincial Secretary, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Tenders will be received up to the hour of One o’clock, p.m., on Wednesday, the 1st day of July, 1863, when they will be opened by the Provincial Government.

Tenders must be for Net Cash, to be paid into the Provincial Treasury within two months after the acceptance of any tender.

Persons tendering to appear personally at the office of the Provincial Secretary, Canterbury, or where debarred from personal attendance to give satisfactory reference through the agents acting for the Provincial Government.

The Provincial Government will not necessarily accept any tender.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Christchurch, 27th April, 1863.

THE following Conditional License, granted by His Honor the Superintendent, is published for general information.

THOS. WM. MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.

Province of Canterbury

Know all Men by these presents that I, Samuel Bealey, of New Zealand, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, do hereby with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Public-house Ordinance, Session VI., No. 3, 1862, license William Parish to sell any spirituous or fermented liquors in any quantity in his House of Accommodation, situate on the Great South Road, subject to the following conditions:

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room or room answering as such, one public and two private sitting-rooms.

2. Not less than thirteen beds for travellers, in not less than four separate bedrooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight and fit for the accommodation of at least twelve horses.

4. At all times to keep a proper supply of water for the house, and for horses and cattle.

5. At all times to keep a proper supply of oats, and oaten or grass hay; oats to be charged for to travellers at not more than sixpence per quart measure, and always to be served out with an imperial quart measure.

6. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient movable sheep-proof enclosure, containing a superficial area of not less than nine hundred square yards, or, at the option of the licensee, to keep one acre of land enclosed by a permanent sheep-proof fence. For the use of this yard during the night, the licensee may make charges not exceeding the following rates: Sixpence a score for any number of sheep up to three hundred, fourpence a score for all over that number and under five hundred, and twopence a score for all over five hundred.

7. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient stock-yard for cattle, containing a superficial area of not less than two hundred and twenty-five square yards. For the use of this yard during the night, the licensee may make charges not exceeding the following rates: Twopence a head for any cattle under fifty in number, and one penny for all over that number.

8. To keep a lamp burning with two burners from sunset to sunrise, giving a sufficiently bright light, and being so lighted as to be conspicuous from a distance all round the house.

9. To provide, in a convenient situation, a spacious trough for the watering of horses.

10. To be sworn in and act as a Constable, especially when required by the Magistrates or the Police.

11. On all occasions to render every assistance, and to supply information to Magistrates and to the Police in the execution of their duty.

12. To keep a clean and orderly house, and to render it as comfortable for the accommodation of Travellers as the circumstances of position and distance from town will fairly allow.

13. Nil.

14. The license to be cancelled by three Justices of the Peace, if it be proved to their satisfaction that any of the conditions of the license be not fulfilled regularly, or if any drunkenness be proved to have been allowed on the premises, or if any spirits shall be supplied from the house or premises to any Aboriginal Native of New Zealand.

15. A printed or fairly-written copy of the conditions, and a tariff of all charges to be kept at all times posted up in some conspicuous place in the tap-room, in the public and each private sitting-room, for the information of travellers.

16. To provide a Visitors’ Book, which shall be kept in the custody of the licensee, and be open to visitors and lodgers to insert any remark on the accommodation and attendance. The book to be open at all times to inspection by Magistrates or the Police, and be sent to the Clerk of the Bench at Christchurch a week before the annual licensing meeting, for the purpose of being produced at that meeting.

17. To keep a copy of the Public-house Ordinance in his house. This license shall commence on the day of the date hereof.