Otago Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 207

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✨ Mail Services and Gold Export

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NEW ZEALAND MAIL STEAM SERVICES.

TENDERS are required by the Government of New Zealand for the performance of the undermentioned services:

A Steamer to leave Melbourne each month within 24 hours after the arrival of the European Mail contract boat, for Port Chalmers, Otago, calling at the Bluff: and thence calling at Lyttelton, Wellington, Picton and Nelson, to Sydney. To wait in Melbourne for the mail if detained for not more than four days after the due date. To remain in Port Chalmers three days; in Wellington, Lyttelton, and Nelson, two days each; and in Picton one day.
A Steamer to leave Sydney on or about the 1st of each month for Nelson, and thence calling at Picton, Wellington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and the Bluff, carrying the Homeward Mail from the Colony to Melbourne. To be ready to leave Port Chalmers at 2 p.m. on the 18th of each month, except February, and then on the 16th.

The Steamers to be employed must be subject to the approval of the Government, and must be able to maintain an average speed of not less than 8 knots an hour on each voyage.

All Post Office Mails must be received on board and delivered to destination free of charge.

Mails to be taken from and delivered on board of the European Mail Contract Steamer in Hobson’s Bay at the expense of the Contractor.

A free chief cabin passage must be at the service of a clerk or agent of the Post Office, on the requisition of the Government.

The tender to state the amount of penalty recoverable for general non-performance of contract: a penalty of £100 per diem will be required for delay, in departure after the time fixed on each voyage, and an additional penalty of £300 for failure, after such delay in delivering the Homeward Mail in Melbourne prior to the departure of the European Mail Contract Boat from that Port.

The tenders may state the sum for which the whole or any portion of the forementioned Services will be undertaken.

The Contract to commence on the 1st January, 1863, or on any earlier date that may be agreed upon, to continue for the term of twelve successive trips each way, and to be determinable after that time by six months notice on either side.

Tenders, marked—“Tenders for New Zealand Mail Services,” to be addressed to the Postmaster-General of New Zealand, and to be posted in New Zealand not later than 15th October next.

CROSBI:E WARD.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 28th August, 1862.

RETURN of the QUANTITY and VALUE of GOLD Exported from NEW ZEALAND, from the 1st April, 1857, to 30th June, 1862.

The following Return is published for general information.

READER WOOD.

Treasury, Wellington, August, 1862.

Port of Export.	Produce of Gold in the Province of	During the Quarter ended 30th June, 1862.				From 1st April, 1857, to 31st March, 1862.		Total Exported from New Zealand to 30th June, 1862.
		To Great Britain.	To New South Wales.	To Victoria.	To other places.	Total.
		ozs.	ozs.	ozs.	ozs.	ozs.	£	ozs.	£
Auckland	Auckland	...	1600	6200	...	...	1372	354	1372
Nelson	Nelson	...	57	97	...	...	48,191	40,591	186,741
Lyttelton	Otago	...	13,605	12,761	42	81,205	814,570	359,639	1,392,300
Dunedin	Ditto	...	...	54,773	42	84,802	921,021	406,584	1,575,013
		13,662	14,361	74,773	84	166,007	1,855,154	806,978	3,308,004

R. F. PORTER, Assistant Treasurer.

Treasury, Auckland, 23rd August, 1862.

VUW Te Waharoa — Otago Provincial Gazette 1862, No 207

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🚂 Tenders for New Zealand Mail Steam Services

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated28 August 1862
KeywordsTenders, Mail Services, Steamers, Melbourne, Sydney, Port Chalmers, Lyttelton, Wellington, Picton, Nelson, Bluff
👩‍💼 Officials

Crosbie Ward, Postmaster-General

💰 Return of the Quantity and Value of Gold Exported from New Zealand

Domain💰 Finance & Revenue
Dated1 August 1862
KeywordsGold Export, Statistics, Auckland, Nelson, Lyttelton, Dunedin, Great Britain, New South Wales, Victoria
👩‍💼 Officials

Reader Wood, Treasury
R. F. Porter, Assistant Treasurer

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