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the said subsidy of one thousand eight hundred pounds by twelve monthly instalments amounting to one hundred and fifty pounds each commencing from the said first day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two Provided that in case from any cause whatsoever the said James M’Meikan and John Hutcheson Blackwood shall fail or omit to perform any of the said monthly services the said James M’Meikan and John Hutcheson Blackwood shall not be entitled to receive any subsidy for any month in respect of which no service shall be performed In witness whereof the said James M’Meikan and John Hutcheson Blackwood have hereunto set their hands and seals by James Rattray their Attorney duly authorised by Power of Attorney dated the nineteenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one and the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson as Superintendent of the said Province of Otago hath set his hand and affixed the Seal of the said Province the day and year first above written

JAMES M’MEIKAN
JOHN HUTCHESON BLACKWOOD

By their Attorney
James Rattray

John Richardson Superintendent

Signed sealed and delivered by the above named James M’Meikan and John Hutcheson Blackwood by James Rattray their said Attorney and by the said John Larkins Cheese Richardson in the presence of

Henry Howorth
Dunedin Gentleman.

MAIL SERVICE.

OTAGO TO MELBOURNE.

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT made the twenty-fifth day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two Between RICHARD BOWDEN MARTIN and ALEXANDER CARRICK both of Dunedin in the Province of Otago Merchants trading under the firm of R. B. MARTIN & Co. of the one part and the Honorable JOHN HYDE HARRIS Deputy Superintendent of the said Province of the other part:

WHEREAS pending the adjustment of proposals for an Agreement between the owners of the steamship “City of Hobart” and the Superintendent of the said Province for the conveyance of the Mails from the Port of Otago aforesaid to the Port of Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria the said Richard Bowden Martin and Alexander Carrick have offered to perform that service by the steamship City of Hobart for the months of September October November and December next following for a monthly subsidy and the said Deputy Superintendent has accepted of the said offer upon the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed. Now these presents Witness that in consideration of a monthly subsidy of Six Hundred Pounds to be paid in manner hereinafter mentioned the said Richard Bowden Martin and Alexander Carrick for themselves their heirs executors and administrators and the owners of the said steamship Do hereby covenant and agree to and with the said John Hyde Harris and the Superintendent of the said Province and his successors in office that they the said Richard Bowden Martin and Alexander Carrick their executors and administrators respectively and the owners of the said steamship City of Hobart shall by means of the said steamship convey the Mails from the Port of Otago to the Port of Melbourne aforesaid for and during the months of September October November and December next following leaving the said Port of Otago upon the Seventeenth day of each of the said months at Four o’clock afternoon unless the said steamship shall by the perils of the sea or other accident be rendered incapable of performing the said service Provided nevertheless that they may perform the said service by any other First-class steamship Provided also that should the Mails from Auckland and other Northern Ports not arrive at Port Chalmers by four o’clock on the Seventeenth of each of the said months the said City of Hobart or other steamship carrying the Mail from Otago to Melbourne aforesaid shall remain until the arrival of the Mails from the Northern Ports but not later than four o’clock afternoon of the eighteenth day of the said months respectively and that should a Steamer or Boat come alongside from any of the Southland ports with the Mail of that province the said City of Hobart or other steamship conveying the Mails from Otago to Melbourne will stop and receive the Southland Mail and that the English and Foreign portions of the Mails so conveyed to Melbourne will be transhipped by the owners of the said City of Hobart or other steamship to the Peninsular and Oriental steamship in Hobson’s Bay but in the event of no Mail steamship being ready to receive them the said Mails will be handed over to the Melbourne post-office authorities: Provided further that should the City of Hobart or other steamship conveying the Mails from Otago to Melbourne as afore-