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be delivered to the master of any of the said vessels,
or other officer or agent of the Contractors in the
charge or management of any vessel employed in
the performance of this agreement, or left for the
Contractors at their usual or last known office or
house of business in Wellington; and any notices or
directions so given or left shall be binding on the
Contractors: Provided always that any notice of
termination of this contract shall be served on the
Contractors, their officers, servants, or agents, at their
office in Wellington.

17. It is lastly agreed by and between the said
    parties hereto, that the service hereby contracted
    for shall be carried on and shall continue in force
    until determined under the provisions of the
    twelfth clause hereof, otherwise the said service and
    contract shall continue until the completion of the
    voyage from the Manukau to the Bluff in the month
    of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy,
    or until the completion of the second period of six
    months' service, as provided in clause fifteen, if the
    notice therein mentioned be given, except in the case
    of habitual negligence, or wilful default, as herein-
    before provided.

In witness whereof, the said parties to these
presents have hereunto set their hands
and seals, the day, month, and year first
above written.

JULIUS VOGEL,
THOS. HENDERSON,
JOHN MARTIN.

Signed by Julius Vogel, Postmaster-General
of New Zealand for the time being, in
presence of

DANIEL POLLEN,
Agent General Government.

Signed by Thomas Henderson, in presence of

DANIEL POLLEN,
Agent General Government.

Signed by John Martin, in the presence of

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 25th April, 1870.

NOTICE is hereby given, that His Excellency the
Governor has been pleased to appoint the
under-mentioned Post Office to be a Money Order
and Savings Bank Office, for the transaction of
Money Order and Savings Bank business, viz. :-

THE HUTT,
Province of Wellington.

By order.

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th April, 1870.

THE following Notice, received from the General
Post Office, Brisbane, is published for general
information. By order,

G. ELIOTT ELIOTT,
Secretary.

Money Order Office,
Brisbane, 4th April, 1870.

SIR,-I have the honor to inform you that the Money
Order Office at

KILKIOAU

has been closed.

I have, &c.,
ALFRED NIGHTINGALE,
Superintendent.

The Controller, Money Order Office,
Wellington.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
Wellington, 29th April, 1870.

IT is hereby notified, that the business of the Marine
Office has been placed under the management
of the Customs Department, and that all Official
Correspondence, such as has hitherto been addressed
to the Colonial Marine Engineer, should in future be
addressed as under:--

To the SECRETARY of CUSTOMS,
(Marine Branch,)
Wellington.

W. GISBORNE
(in the absence of the Commissioner
of Customs).

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

No. 7 of 1870.
Beacon on Hapuka Rock, Astrolabe Road.

Office of the Commissioner of Customs,
(Marine Branch)
Wellington, 16th April, 1870.

NOTICE is hereby given, that an Iron Beacon,
painted red, has been erected on Hapuka Rock,
Astrolabe Road.

It is an iron rod, surmounted by a spherical cage,
three feet in diameter, and will stand about thirteen
feet out of water at high-water spring tides.

This rock, instead of being awash at high water,
as described in the "New Zealand Pilot," and New
Zealand Sheet Chart, No. VII., is only about two
feet out of water at low-water spring tides.

W. GISBORNE
(for Commissioner of Customs).

Government Annuities Office,
Wellington, 1st March, 1870.

NOTICE is hereby given, that Government
Insurance and Annuities Offices, under "The
Government Annuities Act, 1869," have been opened
at the Chief Post Offices at Auckland, New Plymouth,
Napier, Wellington, Nelson, Blenheim, Christchurch,
Dunedin, and Invercargill, and at the Post Offices at
Hokitika, Greymouth, Westport, and Charleston.

All persons wishing to obtain Annuities, immediate
or deferred, Life Insurances, or other advantages
under the Act, will receive every information and
the necessary forms on application at either of the
above-named offices.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 27th April, 1870.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the
General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in
the eighteenth year of the reign of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, and intituled "The Marriage Act,
1854," the following name of an Officiating Minister,
within the meaning of the said Act, is published for
general information:---

Wesleyan Methodist Society.

The Reverend JAMES ARCHER CAWDELL,

I, JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand, do hereby
certify that the foregoing NAME of an OFFICIATING
MINISTER, within the meaning of "The Marriage
Act, 1854," has been sent in to me in addition to
the names in Lists published in the New Zealand
Gazette, No. 6, of the 29th of January; No 7, of
the 5th of February; No. 13, of the 12th of March;
and No. 21, of the 20th of April, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this
twenty-seventh day of April, one thou
sand eight hundred and seventy.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.