NEW ZEALAND MAIL SERVICE.

BONUS of £50 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 on the P. and O. Company’s boat whichever of the said boats shall first arrive there; and which shall arrive at Dunedin (landing the South Island portion at the Bluff, weather permitting) within six 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 respective Mails, for whom a free chief cabin passage must be provided, shall have been carried out 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 be made by his officer.

(Signed) READER GILSON WOOD,
General Post Office,
New Zealand,
July 16th, 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 amounts of subsidy, if any, would be required, if the 17th or 18th day of the month were substituted as the dates for the steamer leaving Port Chalmers, instead of the 15th. The difference to be stated in a separate column of the tender.

2nd. As respects the service from Melbourne to Otago: What additional sum per trip 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 5th day, from the due date of mailship.

(Signed) READER GILSON WOOD,
General Post Office,
New Zealand,
July 16th, 1863.

GRANTED, VOLUNTEERS FOR TARANAKI.

MEN wishing to join the above forces, subject to the conditions named below, are requested to make early application at the office of the undersigned, adjoining the Sub-Treasury, for the necessary forms. Every information as regards the duties to be done, and the nature of the land to be given, can be had at the office.

STRANGERS MACF.,
Lieutenant, Taranaki Militia.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, June 1863.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following conditions upon which land situate between Omata and Tataraimaka, in the Province of Taranaki, will be granted to settlers:—

NEW ZEALAND.—Conditions upon which Land situate between Omata and Taranaki, in the Province of Taranaki, will be granted to settlers:—

1. Settlements will be surveyed and marked off at the expense of the Government.

2. Each settlement will comprise not less than 100 town allotments and 100 farm sections.

3. A townsite will be laid out on the most eligible site in each settlement. It will be erected at the expense of the Government.

4. A town will be laid out around or as near as conveniently may be to the stockade in one more allotment.

5. Farms will be laid out around, or as near as conveniently may be to the town, in sections of 50 acres each.

6. Every settler under these conditions will be entitled to one town allotment and one farm section.

7. Priority of choice will be determined by lot.

8. No man above the age of 45 years will be accepted, and every applicant will be subject to an examination by an officer appointed by the Government, and must produce such certificates of good health, character and general fitness for the service, as such officer may require.

9. Each accepted applicant will be provided, at the expense of the Government, with a steerage passage to New Plymouth. Before embarkation, he will be required to sign a declaration and agreement to the effect that he understands and will be bound by and fulfil these conditions.

10. On arriving at New Plymouth, he will be enrolled and required to serve in the Taranaki Militia. He will be entitled to pay and rations accordingly until he is authorised by the Government to take possession of his land, when he will be relieved of “actual service.”

11. After taking possession he will be entitled to receive rations, free of cost, for twelve months, upon the same scale as supplied to Her Majesty’s troops.

12. After taking possession, he will be permitted, during the first three years after his arrival at New Plymouth, to absent himself for not more than one month in any one year without the leave of the Governor first obtained.

13. During such three years he will be liable to be trained and exercised as other Militiamen; and whenever a portion only of the Taranaki Militia shall be called out for actual service, each settler will be deemed to be a Volunteer Militiaman, and he will be entitled to the same pay, rations, and allowance as other Militiamen.

14. On the expiration of three years from the day of his arrival at New Plymouth, each settler, having fulfilled the conditions, but not otherwise, will be entitled to a Crown Grant of the Town Allotment and Farm Section allotted to him, and will thenceforth be subject only to the same Militia service as other colonists.

15. Any settler desiring to leave his settlement will be permitted to do so on providing a substitute approved of by the Government. Such substitute will be subject to the same liabilities and entitled to the same privileges as the settler whose place he takes.

16. In case of the death of any settler before he shall become entitled to his Crown Grant, the land allotted to him will be at the disposal of the Government for the location of another settler under these conditions, or for any other purpose; but the value of any improvements made thereon by the deceased settler will be ascertained by valuation, and the amount paid to the Government shall be paid over to his representatives.

FORM OF DECLARATION AND AGREEMENT.

“I [condition] do hereby state that I fully understand and agree to be bound thereby, and punctually, on my part, to fulfil all the conditions thereof.”

Printed for the Provincial Government by Daniel Campbell, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.