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15. For the faithful performance of all the cove-
    nants, stipulations, and agreements hereinbefore con-
    tained, the contractors bind themselves and himself
    respectively in the sum of four thousand pounds
    sterling to be paid to our Sovereign Lady the Queen,
    her heirs and successors, by way of stipulated or
    ascertained damages in manner following, that is to
    say-the sum of two thousand pounds in case of
    wilful failure or default on the part of the contractors
    in the due performance of this contract, or any part
    thereof, in respect of each or either of the said Mail
    Services hereby contracted for, that is to say-the
    service from New Zealand to Melbourne, and the
    service from Melbourne to New Zealand.

16. And in consideration of the due and faithful
    performance by the said contractors of all the ser-
    vices hereby contracted to be performed by them the
    said Postmaster-General, on behalf of the Colony of
    New Zealand, hereby covenants with the said con-
    tractors, their executors, and administrators, to pay
    to them or to their agent in New Zealand for the
    said services at the rate of four thousand seven
    hundred and fifty pounds for six months, by equal
    monthly instalments or payments of seven hundred
    and ninety-one pounds thirteen shillings and four
    pence, at the Sub-Treasury in Dunedin, on the first
    day of each month; and also the further sum of two
    hundred pounds for each and every period of twenty-
    four hours during which either of the steam ships
    employed under this contract shall have been de-
    tained at Melbourne by the said Postmaster-General
    or his agent under the provisions of the second
    clause hereof.

17. And further that during the service hereby
    contracted for all Mails from New Zealand for Vic-
    toria and for Europe shall be delivered by and at the
    expense of the said Postmaster-General or his
    successors in office at Port Chalmers aforesaid on
    board the steam ship which may be employed or used
    by the contractors under this contract.

18. And further that all Mails which by the terms
    of this contract are to be taken by the said con-
    tractors to the Bluff Harbour or received by them
    there, shall, by and at the expense of the said Post-
    master-General and his sucessors in office, be there
    taken from or as the case may require delivered to
    the contractors' steam ship which may call at Bluff
    Harbour to deliver or receive such Mails.

19. It is lastly agreed by and between the said
    parties hereto that the service hereby contracted for
    shall commence on the tenth day of September, one
    thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and shall be
    carried on and this contract shall continue in force
    until determined by notice under the provisions of
    the thirteenth clause hereof, or until one of the said
    parties hereto shall have given to the other of them
    three months' notice of an intention to determine
    the same, and until the said three months shall have
    expired: Provided always that the said service and
    contract shall not be determined by such notice as
    last aforesaid before the tenth day of March, one thou-
    sand eight hundred and sixty-six, except in the
    case of habitual negligence or wilful default as here-
    inbefore provided: Provided lastly, and the said
    contractors hereby covenant with the said Post-
    master-General and his successors in office that in
    case the said service and contract shall be determined
    by such notice on the tenth day of March, one thou-
    sand eight hundred and sixty-six, one of the said
    steam ships, or a steam ship to be substituted there-
    for, as hereinbefore provided, shall bring to Port
    Chalmers the European Mail due in Melbourne in
    the said month of March; and shall, unless prevented
    by tempestuous weather, call at the Bluff Harbour to
    land and receive Mails; and shall, if necessary, wait
    in Hobson's Bay for the space of ninety-six hours
    after the due date of arrival of the European Mail
    in the said month of March, the said Postmaster-
    General hereby covenanting for himself and his
    successors in office that he or they shall pay to the
    said contractors the sum of three hundred and
    ninety-five pounds sixteen shillings and eight pence
    in consideration of said last-mentioned service in
    March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

In witness whereof the seal of the said Com-
pany hath been hereunto set, and Edward
Bowes Cargill, of Dunedin, aforesaid,
Secretary to the said Company, hath here-
unto set his hand, and the said Postmaster-
General hath hereunto set his hand and
seal the day, month, and year first herein-
before written.

Signed, sealed and delivered
by the said Edward Bowes E. B. CARGILL.
Cargill in the presence of
ALEX. BRYCE BAIN,
Accountant, Dunedin.

Signed, sealed and delivered
by John Larkins Cheese
Richardson, Postmaster-
General of the Colony of
New Zealand, in the pre-
sence of
J. L. C. RICHARDSON.

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary General Post Office,
New Zealand.

POSTAL.

Additional Postal Convention between the United
Kingdom and Belgium.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st November, 1865.

THE following Despatch respecting the transmission
of Books and Patterns of Merchandise to and
from Belgium by post is published for general infor-
mation.

E. W. STAFFORD,
Postmaster-General.

General Post Office,
London, 31st July, 1865.

SIR, I am directed by the Postmaster-General to
acquaint you, that an additional Postal Convention
has just been concluded between the United Kingdom
and Belgium.

Under the terms of this convention the postage of
letters, newspapers, and book packets transmitted to
and from New Zealand and Belgium by way of this
country will remain unchanged; but certain altera-
tions will be made in the terms of the book post, and
a pattern post will be established between New
Zealand and Belgium.

In future, under the term "Book Packets," may
be forwarded not only stitched or bound books,
pamphlets, and sheets of music, but also printed
proof sheets, with ordinary corrections in writing
and manuscripts attached to such proofs, and having
reference to them, as well as legal and other docu-
ments in manuscript, photographs and drawings (so
long as those articles are not on glass or placed
under glass), prints or maps, printed, engraved, or
lithographed, and whether on paper, parchment, or
vellum; but no letter or communication of the nature
of a letter must be forwarded in such packets, or in
or upon their covers.

Further, all legitimate binding, mounting, or cover-
ing of a book, publication, &c., or of a portion thereof,
will be allowed, whether such binding &c., be loose or
attached, as also rollers in the case of prints or maps,