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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Strong Morrison appointed a Pilot,
General Post Office,
Auckland, 13th June, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
STRONG MORRISON,
to be a Pilot at the Port of Timaru.
READER GILSON WOOD.

NEW ZEALAND MAIL STEAM
SERVICES.

Tenders are required by the Government of
New Zealand for the performance of the
undermentioned services.

1. A steamer to leave Melbourne within 24
   hours after the due date of the arrival
   of the European Mail Contract Boat, for Port
   Chalmers, Otago, calling at the Bluff. To
   wait in Melbourne, for the Mail, if detained,
   not more than four days, after its due date.

2. A steamer to leave Port Chalmers for
   Melbourne calling at the Bluff carrying the
   homeward Mail of the Colony to Melbourne
   not later than 2 p.m. on the 16th of each
   month except February and then on the 14th.

The steamers employed must be subject to
the approval of the Government, and must be
able to maintain an average speed of not less
than 8 knots an hour on each voyage.

All Post Office Mails must be received on
board and delivered to destination free of
charge.

Mails to be taken from and delivered on
board of the European Mail Contract Steamer
in Hobson's Bay, at the expense of the con-
tractor.

A free chief cabin passage must be at the
service of a clerk or agent of the Post Office,
on the requisition of the Government, and
proper accommodation provided for sorting
letters.

The tender to state the amount of penalty
recoverable for general non-performance of
contract: a penalty of £100 per diem will be
required for delay in departure after the time
fixed on each voyage, and an additional penalty
of £300 for failure, after such delay in deliver-
ing the homeward mail in Melbourne prior to
the departure of the European Mail Contract
Boat from that Port..

The tenders may state the sum for which
the whole or any portion of the forementioned
Services will be undertaken.

The Contract to commence on January 1st,
1864, and to continue in force until the expira-
tion of six calendar months' notice to be given
by either of the parties to the other of his in-
tention to determine the same; provided al-
ways that the Contract shall not terminate
before the 31st day of December, 1864.

The tenders to be endorsed "Tenders for
the New Zealand Mail Services," to be ad-
dressed to the Postmaster General of New
Zealand, and to be posted at Dunedin not later
than the 18th day of September next.
READER GILSON WOOD.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 22nd June, 1863.

H. R. Richmond, Esquire, appointed Crown
Lands Commissioner and Land Claims
Commissioner at New Plymouth.

Crown Lands Office,
Auckland, 22nd June, 1863.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint
HENRY ROBERT RICHMOND, Esq., J. P.,
to be Commissioner of Crown Lands under the
"Crown Lands Act, 1862," and Commissioner
of Land Claims under the "New Zealand
Company's Land Claimants Ordinance, Sess.
xi, No. 15, vice W. Halse, Esq., resigned.
ALFRED DOMETT.

Public Offices to be closed on the 1st July
next.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 22nd June, 1863.

HIS Honor the Superintendent of the
Province of Auckland having appointed
Wednesday, the 1st of July next, to be
observed as a Public Holiday throughout
that Province in honor of the Marriage of
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
it is hereby notified that the Offices of the
General Government in Auckland will be
closed on that day.
ALFRED DOMETT.

CUSTOMS.

Notice of Bonding Warehouses at the Port
of Invercargill.

NOTICE is hereby given that the buildings
hereinafter particularized and described
have been duly approved and appointed in ac-
cordance with the eleventh section of the " Cus-
toms Regulation Act, 1858," to be Warehouses
for the securing of goods uuder Bond for the
payment of duties of Customs.

First. An Iron building belonging to George
Hately & Co., situated on the Provincial
Government Reserve near to the Jetty
which extends from the West end of
Tweed-street in the Town of Invercargill,
and fronting to Tweed-street.

Second. An iron building belonging to John
Ross & Co., situated on section 13, block
7, Town of Invercargill, and fronting to
Clyde-street.'

Third. Part of an iron building belonging to
Morrison, Law & Co., situated on section
16, Block 1, Town of Invercargill, and
fronting to Dee-street.

A. J. ELLIS,
Deputy Commissioner.