THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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Mr. A. Rose appointed Emigration Officer, Timaru.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 30th December, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
MR. ALEXANDER ROSE
to be Emigration Officer at the Port of Timaru.

ALFRED DOMETT.

Resignation of Lieutenant J. D. Busby.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 20th December, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to accept the resignation of
LIEUTENANT JOHN D. BUSBY,
of the "Wanganui Cavalry Volunteers."

ALFRED DOMETT.

Messrs. J. Booth and Co.'s Tender for
erection of Coach House at Government
House accepted.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 29th December, 1862.

NOTICE is hereby given that the follow-
ing Tender has been accepted by the
General Government.

W. GISBORNE,
Under Secretary.

Messrs. J. Booth and Co., to erect a Coach
House at Government House for the sum of
£48 10s.

POSTAL.

Contract for Mail Steamer between Mel-
bourne and Dunedin.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 30th December, 1862.

THE following Articles of Agreement with
Messrs. McMeckan and Blackwood for
conveyance of Mails between Melbourne and
Port Chalmers are published for general infor-
mation.

READER WOOD.
For the Postmaster-General.

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT made the Twenty-
fifth day of November in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
two. Between James McMeckan and John
Hutchison Blackwood both of the City of
Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria Mer-
chants of the one part and the Honourable
Crosbie Ward of Auckland in the Colony of
New Zealand as Her Majesty's Postmaster-
General for the Colony of New Zealand
aforesaid and for and on behalf of the said
last mentioned Colony of the other part:

Witnesseth that the said James McMeckan
and John Hutchison Blackwood in considera-
tion of the payments hereinafter agreed to be
made to them do hereby for themselves their
heirs executors and administrators and each of
them doth hereby for himself his heirs execu-
tors and administrators covenant with the
said Crosbie Ward and with his successors in
the said office of Postmaster-General.

1. That they the said James McMeckan
   and John Lutchison Blackwood shall and
   will at their own costs and charges at
   all times until this agreement shall be deter-
   mined and to the satisfaction of the Post-
   master-General for the time being of New
   Zealand aforesaid convey Her Majesty's Mails
   between Melbourne and the Forts of the Bluff
   Harbour and Port Chalmers in New Zealand
   aforesaid during the time of twelve calendar
   months commencing from the term at which
   the steam-vessel "Aldinga," or some other
   vessel may be sent from Melbourne on the said
   service in January next according to the agree-
   ment hereinafter contained and also from and
   after the determination of the said term of
   twelve calendar months until the expiration of
   six calendar months from the time at which
   the said James McMeckan and John Hutchi-
   son Blackwood or the survivor of them their or
   his executors administrators or assigns or the
   Postmaster-General for the time being of New
   Zealand shall have given unto the other of the
   said parties hereto notice in writing of a desire
   or intention to determine this contract and the
   service thereunder.

2. That the steam-ship "Aldinga," now em-
   ployed in trading between Melbourne and
   Otago aforesaid or a steam-ship fit in all res-
   pects for the service hereby contracted for
   shall be the steam-ship employed to convey
   the said Mails and that the ship to be employed
   for that purpose shall every calendar month
   leave Melbourne on her voyage to Otago with-
   in twenty-four hours after the arrival in Hob-
   son's Bay of the steamer carrying the Monthly
   Mails between Point de Galle and Melbourne
   if such last-mentioned steam-ship shall be by
   telegram or other communication posted in the
   Hall of Commerce or at the Telegraph Office
   in Melbourne announced to be approaching the
   Port of Melbourne before two o'clock in the
   afternoon of the ninth day of each month
   commencing in January next (except of Febru-
   ary) and on the seventh day of February but
   if no such announcement be posted or made
   within the time aforesaid the "Aldinga," or
   such other vessel may then on the ninth of
   each other month and seventh of February at
   the times aforesaid leave Melbourne for Port
   Chalmers but in case such announcement shall
   be posted or made then the "Aldinga," or such
   other ship shall not depart until after the arri-
   val in Hobson's Bay of the steamer carrying
   the said Monthly Mails between Point de
   Galle and Melbourne Provided always that the
   said "Aldinga," or such other ship as may be
   employed under this contract shall not in any
   case be required or compelled to remain at
   Melbourne after ten o'clock in the forenoon of
   the eleventh day of any month except February
   and not after the ninth day of any month of
   February although the said steamer carrying
   the Monthly Mails may not have arrived at
   Melbourne aforesaid Provided further that in
   case any such day of departure falls on a Sun-