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SUPREME COURT, OTAGO.

FURTHER POSTPONEMENT OF SITTING.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in consequence of the Supreme Court Hall and offices being required for the sitting of the Provincial Council, the next sitting for the Despatch of Criminal Business will be adjourned to Monday, the 14th September next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, and the sitting for the Despatch of Civil Business will be adjourned to a day in December next, of which due notice will be given.

ROBT. CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 19th August, 1863.

SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND DISTRICT.

DEBTORS’ AND CREDITORS’ ACT, 1862.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Sitting of this Court will be held in the Court House, Dunedin, on Tuesday, the 1st day of September next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, for the despatch of all business accruing under the provisions of the “Debtors’ and Creditors’ Act, 1862.”

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 1st August, 1863.

TRANSFER LICENSING MEETING.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Meeting of Justices will be held on Tuesday, the 1st day of September next, at the temporary Court House, of the Resident Magistrate, Gaol-street, Dunedin, at 12 o’clock noon, for the purpose TRANSFERRING Publicans Licenses in terms of the Ordinance Sess. II, No. 12, at which time and place, all persons interested in the business of the said meeting are required to give their attendance.

THOMAS CALCUTT,
Clerk to the Bench.

R. M’s Office,
Dunedin, August 7th, 1863.

NEW ZEALAND MAIL SERVICE.

A BONUS of £350 will be paid by the Sub-Treasurer of the New Zealand Government at Dunedin, to the master of any steamboat which shall leave Melbourne with the New Zealand European Mails, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of the P. and O. Company’s boat whenever the Aldinga has left without them, and deliver the same to the Postmaster at Dunedin, Otago, (landing the Southland portion at the Bluff, weather permitting,) within nine days of leaving Melbourne.

This Bonus will be paid for each of the months of August, September, October, November, and December of this year, immediately after the Mail Agent (for whom a free chief cabin passage must be provided) shall have certified that the service has been duly performed.

The Postmaster-General of Melbourne, or some person appointed by him, must be satisfied that any boat offering has sufficient steam-power to perform the service required; and in case of there being a choice of boats, the selection to rest with that officer.

(Signed) READER GILSON WOOD.

General Post Office,
New Zealand,
July 16th, 1863.

NEW ZEALAND MAIL STEAM SERVICES,

Tenders are required by the Government of New Zealand for the performance of the undermentioned services.

1. A steamer to leave Melbourne within 24 hours after the due date of the arrival of the European Mail Contract Boat, for Port Chalmers, Otago, calling at the Bluff. To wait in Melbourne, for the Mail, if detained, not more than four days after its due date.

2. A steamer to leave Port Chalmers for Melbourne carrying the homeward Mail of the colony to Melbourne, no later than 2 p.m. on the 16th of each month, except February, and then on the 14th.

The steamers 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, and proper accommodation provided for sorting letters.

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 January 1st, 1864, and to continue in force until the expiration of six calendar months’ notice to be given by either of the parties to the other of his intention to determine the same; provided always that the contract shall not terminate before the 31st day of December, 1864.

The tenders to be endorsed “Tenders for the New Zealand Mail Services,” to be addressed to the Post Master General of New Zealand, and to be posted at Dunedin not later than the 18th day of September next.

READER GILSON WOOD.

General Post Office,
Auckland, 22nd June, 1863.

NEW ZEALAND MAIL SERVICE.

PERSONS intending to tender for the New Zealand Mail Service, in accordance with the terms of an advertisement dated General Post Office, Auckland, June 22nd, 1863, are requested to state separately in their tenders—

1st. As respects the service from Otago to Melbourne: What difference in the amount of subsidy, if any, would be required, if the 17th or 18th days of the month were substituted, as the date for the mail steamers leaving Port Chalmers, instead of the 16th? The difference to be stated for each of these dates.

2nd. As respects the service from Melbourne to Otago: What additional sum per diem would be required for each day’s detention of the steamer at Melbourne beyond the four days stipulated for, up to and inclusive of the 8th day, from the due date of sailing?

READER GILSON WOOD,

General Post Office,
New Zealand,
July 16th, 1863.

Printed for the Provincial Government, by DANIEL CAMPBELL, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.