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the anchorage at the Red Buoy for more than twelve hours at any one time unless engaged in towing, tugging, or lightering. That during such time as the said steamship shall be at the said anchorage, she shall have her fires banked up, her crew on board, and otherwise in readiness to proceed with all convenient speed to tow out of or into the said Ports, or either of them, any vessel requiring the same or any other of the services hereby required upon signals being made for any such purpose;

That the said contractors shall, during the continuance of this contract, maintain the said ship or vessel in good repair and working order, in default thereof shall substitute some other vessel of the same power or capacity for the performance of this contract. And further, the said contractors shall in all respects faithfully, diligently, and punctually perform the said several services to the best of their skill and ability.

2. And the said Superintendent hereby covenants with the said contractors that the Government of the said Province shall pay to the said contractors for the said several services the sum of Nine Hundred Pounds, to be paid quarterly, on the twenty-sixth days of May, August, and November in the said year; the first payment to be made on the twenty-sixth day of May 1862, of the sum of Two hundred and twenty-five pounds sterling: Provided always, and it is hereby declared and agreed by and between the said parties hereto, that if the said ship or vessel should become unfit for service, and the said contractors should fail to provide another vessel in lieu thereof, as herein provided, it shall be lawful for the said Superintendent to determine and annul this contract upon giving to the said contractors, or leaving at their place of business, notice in writing of such his intention, and thereupon this agreement, and everything herein contained, shall cease and determine and be absolutely void. And in such case the said contractors shall be entitled to receive a proportion of the said sum of Nine Hundred Pounds to the time of such determination of the contract. And lastly, for the due fulfilment of the covenants, agreements and stipulations herein contained, the said contractors bind themselves in the sum of Two Hundred Pounds, to be recovered as liquidated damages.

In witness whereof, the said James Alexander Robertson Menzies hath hereto subscribed his proper name, and affixed the seal of the said Province; and the said James Pope Meadows, John Cheyne, and Leslie Cheyne have hereto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.

J. A. R. MENZIES. (L.S.)
JAS. P. MEADOWS.
JOHN CHEYNE.
LESLIE CHEYNE.

Signed, sealed, and delivered by the several parties hereto in the presence of

H. A. GILLER,
Clerk to the Superintendent.

SCHEDULE A.

FREIGHT—Invercargill and Campbelltown, to and from, 20s per ton measurement.

PASSAGE FARES—Cabin, 15s each; Steerage, 10s. each person.

SCHEDULE B.

LIGHTERAGE from Anchorage, New River, to Jetty, Invercargill, 10s per ton measurement;

PASSAGE FARES—3s each person.

J. A. R. MENZIES,
JAS. P. MEADOWS,
JOHN CHEYNE,
LESLIE CHEYNE.

Witness to the signatures of the several parties hereto,

H. A. GILLER,
Clerk to the Superintendent.

INTERPRETATION.

By the term “banked up,” occurring in the second page of this Agreement, it is intended to mean that the furnaces shall be charged with fuel, ready to be lighted at a moment’s notice.

J. A. R. M.
J. P. M.
J. C.
L. C.

Witness—
H. A. G.

Superintendent’s Office,
Southland, 12th November 1862.

THE following appointments in the Police Force of the Province of Southland are hereby notified:—

EDWARD MORTON, to be Sergeant, Mounted; appointment to date from 1st October.

MICHAEL O’KEEFE, to be Sergeant, Foot; appointment to date from 1st November.

J. A. R. MENZIES,
Superintendent.

[Republished from the N. Z. Gazette, Nov. 4, 1862.]

ORDER IN COUNCIL

Establishing Chief Marine Board.

At the Government House, at Auckland, on the thirty-first day of October 1862.

Present—His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled, “The Marine Board Act, 1862,” it is enacted that the Governor in Council shall as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of the said Act, establish a Board to be called “The Chief Marine Board of New Zealand;”

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby establish the said Chief Marine Board of New Zealand, and doth appoint

CHARLES SABE, Esquire,

to be President of Marine Boards and Master Warden of the said Chief Marine Board of New Zealand, and doth also appoint

The Hon. READER GILSON WOOD
ROBERT JOHNSON, Esquire
THOMAS ROBERTSON, Esquire
ROBERT GREAVES, Esquire,

and

WILLIAM CRUSH DALDY, Esquire

to be Wardens of the said Chief Marine Board.