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Press, Volume VII, Issue 797, 19 May 1865, Page 4

—_— , WANTED— By a single middle-aged man, a Situation as Ploughman; understands the management of sheep and cattle. Address W. C, office of this paper. 5-18 T\7ANTED —A first-class Female Cook, where a . * » kitchen maid is kept. Good wages to a competent person. Also a smart active Errand Boy. Ap- ' ply to Mb. T. D. Jones, Grocer, corner of Tuam and High streets. 6-18 WANTED —By the advertiser, Evening Tuition in Mathematics by a thoroughly competent person. Address, stating terms, to Box 61, Postoffice. 5-19 POSTAL. CONVEYANCE OF MAILS. [Persons intending to Tender for any of the undermentioned Mail Services are hereby informed that every tender not containing the names of two responsible sureties will be treated as informal. The tenders will be accepted by the Chief-Postmaster, subject to the approval of the hon. the Postmaster-General, and the bonds will have to be signed upon such conditional acceptance of the tenders. The Government not bound to accept the lowest or any tender. The times of arrival and departure, and any other information can be obtained at the Chief Post-office, Christchurch.] Tenders wilT be received at the Chief Post-office, Christchurch, until noon, on the 25th day of May next, for the conveyance of mails between the undermentioned places for the period of eighteen months, from the Ist day of July, 1865, to the 31st day of December, 1866. 1. Ltttexton and Chbistchubch. —Twice a day. Also, for the conveyance of the newspapers arriving by the English mail via Sumner, to be delivered at the Post-office Christchurch, within three hours of the mail being landed on the wharf at Lyttelton. Also, for the conveyance of the homeward English mails from Christchnrch to Lyttelton via Sumner; time with the last portion not to exceed two hours and a-half. Also the amount for which express mails will be sent over the Hill at any hour of the day or night— at per journey. Time not to exceed one hour and ahalf. The Contract for the above Services to terminate whenever the railway may be opened into Lyttelton. 2. Chbistchuech and Kowai, and Httbttntji.— Daily—proceeding once a week as far as Hurunui. 3. Kaiapoi and Rangioba.—Daily. 4. Rangioba and Oxeoed.—Twice a week. 6. Htxbuntji and Hawkswood. —Once a week. 6. Chbistchtjbch and Waitangi.—Three times a week. 7. Chbistohubch and Addington—Three times a week. 8. Chbistchtjbch and St. Alban's.—Twice a week. 9. Chbistohubch and Snowdow.—Weekly. 10. ASHBTTBTON AND MOT/NT SOMEBS.—Weekly. 11. TIKABT/ AND LAKE TeKAPO, MACKENZIE Cottntby.—Weekly. 12. Chbistchtjbch and Leestown.—Once a week. 13. Weeden and Pbebbletown. —Twice a week. 14. Lyttelton, Akaeoa, and Pigeon Bay.— Three times a week. 15. Little Aicaloa, Deoantebßayand Oeain's Bay Mails. —Weekly. 16. Lyttelton and Post Levy.—Once a week. 17. Lyttelton and Govebnob's Bay.—Weekly. 18. For carriage of all mails to and from vessels arriving in and departing from the Lyttelton Harbour. GENERAL CONDITIONS. The Chief Postmaster to have the power of altering the day or hour of departure and arrival of mails, provided always that no contractor be expected to perform his work at a greater speed than nine miles an hour. All mail-cart drivers, and other persons in charge of mails, to sign the Post-officer's declaration before a Justice of the Peace. Contractors to be bound to keep mails dry; and if carried on horseback, to take every means to prevent the chafing of the contents of mail-bap while travelling. Contractors will not be allowed to take up, at any place within one mile of a Post-office, any letters or newspapers ; but letters and newspapers may be carried by the contractors between places along the road which are more than a mile distant from the Postoffice. Such letters to have the proper amount of postage in stamps affixed to them, which stamps the contractor is bound to destroy. Contractors must undertake to receive and deliver letter-bags at such houses or places along the road as may be desired by the Chief Postmaster. Contractors wfll be bound to proceed with mails without any undue delay or stoppage on the road after the hour of departing from the Post-office. Any non-observance of this clause will render contractors liable to be proceeded against under the 35th section of the New Zealand Post-office Act. Mail-cart drivers and letter-carriers to be subject to instant dismissal if found drunk while on duty. The Chief Postmaster and the Postmaster at Lyttelton to have the option at any time of delaying the contractor half-an-hour after the appointed time. No other postmasters to have the power of delaying contractors except in very special cases, when a report of the circumstances must be endorsed on the contractors' time-bill. Penalties for breach of contract will be strictly enforced, as well by deductions from the amounts due to contractors as by putting their bonds in suit. Each service to be tendered for separately. Tenderers to state in what way they propose to " carry the mails : whether in carts, on horseback, or on foot. Mails carried in passenger carts must be kept under lock and key while in transit. F. E. Weight, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post-office, Christchurch, April 17,1865. 4-19 HORITIJ-A, WEST COAST, NEW ZEALAND. THE NEW SOUTH WALES MARINE ASSURANCE COMPANY are prepared to accept risks on goods or freight in suitable vessels to HoMtika, at the reduced rate of three per cent. Bbownell & Co., 5-18 Agents. SAM TRELEAVEN begs to thank his friends and the public for the patronage bestowed on bim . hitherto, and to inform them that having considerably enlarged the Styx Mill, and just completed some extensive additions in the machinery for the manufacture of silk-dressed flour, hopes by strict attention to business to meet a continuance of the public support. Orders received at the Store, Gloucester street, ■ Christchurch, where mill produce of all description ' can be obtained. , Best Silk-dressed Flour £22 per ton. 6-18 ■