THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 197

His Excellency the Governor, do hereby proclaim
and declare that game shall be open to be
shot, taken, or killed, within the Province of Auckland
during the months of May, June, and July, in this
present year; but that partridges and swans shall
not be so hunted, shot, taken, or killed.

Given under my hand and seal, at Auckland,
this twenty-second day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy.
THOMAS B. GILLIES,
Superintendent.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent, dated 2nd day of May,
1870, in favour of
JAMES MACKAY, Tertius,
of Aldourie, Waimea West, in the Province of
Nelson, Sheep-farmer and Agriculturist, for an Inven-
tion of a Tubular Lamp, to burn Tallow without
spirit or chemical process.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 25th April, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM JARVIS WILLIS, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Resident Magistrate for the Resident Magis-
trate's District of Otaki, vice J. T. Edwards, Esq.,
resigned.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
(Judicial Branch,)
Wellington, 29th March, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
BORTHWICK ROBERT BAIRD, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court for
the Resident Magistrate's District of Otago Gold
Fields at Cromwell.
W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th April, 1870.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
Honorary Assistant Surgeon Seth Sam, M.D.,
to be Surgeon of the Militia and Volunteers in the
Thames Militia District. Date of commission, 1st
March, 1870.
W. GISBORNE
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).

Colonial Defence-Office,
Wellington, 25th April, 1870.

IT is notified for general information, that
Lieut.-Colonel William Moule
has been appointed to command the Colonial Forces
in the Tauranga and Opotiki Militia Districts; and
that
Lieut.-Colonel William Charles Lyon
has been appointed to command the Colonial Forces
in the Waikato Militia Districts.
W. GISBORNE
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of the commission held by
Captain C. J. Merton, No. 4 Company, Canterbury
Rifle Volunteers.
W. GISBORNE
(in the absence of Mr. McLean).

ARTICLES of AGREEMENT made this eleventh
day of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy, between
Thomas Henderson of Auckland, and John Martin
of Wellington, 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
considerations 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 the Bluff,
   and the Bluff and the Manukau, ought to be performed
   in pursuance thereof, the Contractors will, for the pur-
   pose of conveying, as 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 whatever country or place
   they may have originated; and all empty bags and
   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 com-
   prehended,) 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
   the Bluff, and between the Bluff and Manukau, 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 twenty-sixth day of April,
   1870, the said Contractors shall perform one Postal
   Service monthly, between the Manukau and the
   Bluff, calling at New Plymouth, Nelson, Picton,
   Wellington, Lyttelton, and Port Chalmers, 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. The Contractors shall respectively land, ship,
   and tranship all Her Majesty's Mails at the respec-
   tive ports of call, except New Plymouth, free of
   charge, other than the payments hereinafter men-
   tioned, and such respective services shall be per-
   formed, when necessary, in boats seaworthy and
   suitable for the purpose, furnished with effective