ABSTRACT OF FIELD WORK, from October 1861 to October 1862

Block XII }
,, XIII }
,, XIV }

Invercargill Hundred

F. Richardson

10,200 acres, @ 8½d per acre

,, I }
North portion of Riverton Mabel district
Do

295 sections, @ 4s 2d per section

,, II }
Township of Otaira (Campbelltown)
Do

410 acres, @ 7d per acre

819 sections, 1 rood, @ 6s 6d per section

Irvine & M’Arthur

,, III }
,, XI }
,, XII }
New River Hundred
Do

5799 acres, @ 9½d per acre

,, VII }
Jacob’s River Hundred
S. Kempthorne

524 acres, @ 10d ...

,, XIII }
,, XV }
New River Hundred
H. H. Fenton

4832 acres, @ 10d ...

Invercargill Hundred
J. A. M’Arthur

5557 acres, @ 9½d ...

,, XVI }
Jacob’s River Hundred
A. Aitken

1610 acres, @ 12½d ...

,, XVII }
Invercargill Hundred
H. Mitchell

5863 acres, (including private surveys), @ 7½d per acre

,, XVIII }
Do

Mueller & Geisow

652 acres, @ 1s 7½d ...

1943 acres, @ 19½d ...

,, I }
Oteramika Hundred

Mueller & Geisow

26,383 acres, @ 10d ...

,, III }
,, IV }
,, V }
Jacob’s River Hundred
H. H. Fenton

3800 acres, @ 10½d ...

,, IX }
Riverton
Do

1415 acres, @ 10½d ...

,, I }
,, II }
Do

4000 acres, @ 10½d ...

Titipua Road Line
F. Richardson

North Road, including bush cutting and various other work

J. A. M’Arthur

Mile Posts and Cemetery work
Do

Mile Posts on Dunedin Road
E. V. Hulse

Town Levels
Do

Puni Creek and Jetty work
Do

Cemetery Levels
Do

Waihopai Bridge approaches
Do

Tisbury Road Bridge, and sundry works
Do

Road through Block VI, New River Hundred
S. Kempthorne

2¼ chains, @ 20 11 0

Surveying, do. do. do. do. 134 chains, @ 2 10 0

Surveying and laying off running trial lines for Great North Road
J. M’Arthur

22 miles, @ 218 0 0

• Re-survey of condemned Blocks by Townsend.

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT

Made and entered into this second day of June, in the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, between James Alexander Robertson Manzies, Superintendent of the Province of Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, on behalf of the Government of the said Province (and hereinafter designated the “Superintendent,”) of the one part, and James Pope Meadows, John Chynoweth, and Leslie Cheyne, all of Invercargill, in the said Province, traders under the style or firm of “Cheyne and Company,” (their executors, administrators, and assigns, and hereinafter designated the “contractors”) of the other part as follows:

That the said contractors hereby agree with the Superintendent that they will employ the steamer, ship, or vessel called the “Aphrasia,” belonging to them, in the services hereinafter mentioned from the twenty-sixth day of February last, for the period of one year; that said ship shall take and carry passengers and cargo to and from the Ports of New River, Bluff and Riverton, at the rates and charges, and no greater, specified in the Schedule hereunder written, marked A, and also when so required, tow out of or into the said Ports of New River and the Port of the Bluff, any ship or vessel going into, or out of the said Ports, at such rates as shall be agreed upon between the said contractors and the master of such vessel, or, in case of dispute, as shall be fixed by the Harbour Master and the Collector of Customs for the time being of the said Ports, or if there be no such persons, by two indifferent competent persons, one to be appointed by the said contractors, and the other by the said Superintendent:

And also, shall lighter goods and carry passengers to land from ship or vessels lying at or near the Red Buoy, in the said Port of New River, and the Jetty at Invercargill aforesaid, at the rates and charges, and no greater, specified in the Schedule hereunder written, and marked B: And further, that the said contractors shall cause copies of the said rates and charges set forth in these said Schedules hereunder written, marked respectively A and B, to be published once at least in the local newspapers of the said Province, and shall also cause placards of the same to be posted in some conspicuous place in the office of the said contractors. That the said contractors shall not during the continuance of this contract permit the said steam ship “Aphrasia” to be absent from the Estuary of the New River for a greater period than three days at any one time without the license in writing of the said Superintendent first obtained. That, while the said steam ship “Aphrasia” shall be in the said Estuary, she shall not be absent from