THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 537

Sergt. Richard Donnolly, East Taieri Rifle Volun-,
teers.
" Alexander Chisholm, West Taieri Rifle Volun-
teers.
" William Anslem, Waikouaiti Rifle Volunteers.
" William Livingston, Oamaru Rifle Volunteers.
1st class Petty Officer Robert Smith, Dunedin Naval
Volunteers.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held
by the under-mentioned officer, viz. :-
Captain W. D. H. Baillie, as Captain in the Marl-
borough Rangers Volunteers.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th November, 1868.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept services of the under-imentioned
Corps, viz.:-
The Greytown Troop, Wairarapa Cavalry Volun-
teers. Date of acceptance, 3rd October, 1868.
The Hutt Cavalry Volunteers. Date of acceptance,
7th November, 1868.

T. M. HAULTAIN.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 12th November, 1868.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency
the Governor has been pleased to appoint the
Post Office at

TEVIOT,

in the Province of Otago, to be a Money Order
Office and Post Office Savings Bank.

JOHN HALL,
Postmaster-General.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1868.

THE following Notices, received from the General
Post Office, Sydney, respecting the extension
of the Money Order System in the Colony of New
South Wales, is published for general information.

JOHN HALL.

POST OFFICE MONEY ORDERS.

General Post Office,
Sydney, 9th October, 1868.

WITH reference to Treasury notice of the 10th
December, 1862, published in Government Gazette,
No. 231, it is hereby notified, that on and after the
12th October, 1868, the Post Office Money Order
System will be extended to

REDFERN.

ATKINSON A. P. TIGHE.

General Post Office,
Sydney, 12th October, 1868.

IT is hereby notified, for general information, that
the Money Order System will be re-established
at Fish River Creek on and after the 1st of November
next.

ATKINSON A. P. TIGHE.

ARTICLES of AGREEMENT made this twenty-first
day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, between the
Panama New Zealand and Australian Royal Mail
Company, (Limited), who are hereinafter styled "the
Contractors," of the one part, and Her Majesty's

Postmaster-General of the Colony of New Zealand,
on behalf of the said Colony, in pursuance of the
provisions of "The New Zealand Post Office Act,
1858," of the other part, WITNESS, that for the con-
siderations hereinafter mentioned, the said Con-
tractors, for themselves, their successors and limited
assigns, covenant with the said Postmaster-General,
and his successors in office, as follows:

1. That at all times during the continuance of this
   agreement, or so long as the services hereby agreed
   to be performed between the Manukau and Port
   Chalmers, and between the Bluff and Auckland,
   ought to be performed in pursuance thereof, the
   hereinafter provided, all Her Majesty's Mails (in which
   term "Mails" all letters, boxes, bags, or packets of
   letters, newspapers, books, or printed papers, whether
   loose or in closed Mails, sent by the Post, to whatever
   country or places they may be addressed, or in what-
   ever country or place they may have originated; and
   all empty bags and other stores, used or to be used in
   carrying on the Post Office service, which shall be
   sent by or to or from the Post Office are agreed to
   be comprehended) which shall at any time and from
   time to time, by the Postmaster-General for the time
   being of the said Colony, hereinafter styled the
   "Postmaster-General," or any of his officers or agents,
   be required to be conveyed, provide, and keep sea-
   worthy, and in complete repair, for such conveyance,
   once in each calendar month, between Manukau
   and Port Chalmers, and between the Bluff and
   Auckland, a sufficient number of good, substantial,
   and efficient steam vessels for the said services.
2. The vessels to be employed under this agree-
   ment shall always be furnished, while in actual use,
   with all appropriate and necessary machinery,
   engines, apparel, furniture, stores, tackle, boats, fuel,
   lamps, oil for lamps and engines, tallow, provisions,
   anchors, cables, fire pumps, and other proper means
   for extinguishing fire, lightning conductors, charts,
   chronometers, proper nautical instruments, medicines,
   and whatsoever else may be requisite for equipping
   the said vessels, and rendering them constantly
   efficient for the service hereby agreed to be per-
   formed; and also manned and provided with com-
   petent officers and with a sufficient number of efficient
   engineers, and a sufficient crew of able seamen and
   other men, to be in all respects, as to vessels, engines,
   equipments, officers, engineers and crew, subject in
   the first instance, and from time to time, and at all
   times afterwards, to the approval of the Postmaster-
   General, or of such other competent person or
   persons as he shall at any time or times, or from time
   to time, authorize to inspect and examine the same.
3. From and after the third day of January 1869,
   the said Contractors shall perform one Postal Service
   monthly, between the Manukau and Port Chalmers,
   calling at New Plymouth, Nelson, Picton, Wellington,
   and Lyttelton, and back to the Manukau by the same
   route, according to Time Table to be furnished by the
   Postmaster-General, subject to variation of dates as
   hereinafter mentioned.
4. From and after the third day of January, 1869,
   the said Contractors shall perform one Postal Service
   monthly between the Bluff and Auckland, calling at
   Port Chalmers, Lyttelton, Wellington and Napier,
   and back to the Bluff by the same route, according
   to Time Table to be furnished by the said Postmaster-
   General, subject to variation of dates as hereinafter
   mentioned.
5. The Contractors shall respectively land, ship, and
   ports of call, except New Plymouth, free of chargo
   other than the payments hereinafter mentioned, and
   such respective services shall be performed in boats
   seaworthy and suitable for the purpose, furnished