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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3892, 11 February 1870, Page 5

Tenders.

3 3 3 3 INTER-PROVINCIAL STEAM MAIL » SERVICE. [ '"pENDERS will be received at the General ? Post Office at Wellington till SATUR- [ DAY, the sth March next, for the PER- , FORM AN CE of the undei mentioned alternative MONTHLY STEAM MAIL SER- ': VICES, in accordance with Tune Tables [ fco be seen at the Chief Post-office, Auck- , land, for a period of six months from the [ I commencement of contract, determinable at that date, or any subsequent date by three months' notice given on either side. No. I—Prom1 — Prom the Bluff to Port Chalmers, and from Port Chalmers to the Bluff. No. 2— From Port Chalmers to Wellington, calling at Lyttelton, and from Welling, ton to Port Chalmers, calling at Lyttelton. No. 3. — From Oamaru to Lyttelton, calling at Timaru and Akaroa, and from Lyttelton to Oamaru, calling at Akaroa and Timaru. No, 4. —From Wellington to Auckland via Napier, and from Auckland to Wellington via Napier. No. 5. — From Wellington to Napier, and from Napier to Wellington. No. 6. — From Auckland to Napier, and from Napier to Auckland. No. 7. — From Wellington to Manukau, via AVhanganui and Taranaki, and from Manukau to Wellington, via Taranaki and Whanganui. No, 8. — From Whanganui to Manukau, via Taranaki, and from Manukau to Whanganui via Taranaki. No. 9. — From Wellington to Manukan, via. Picton, Nelson, and Taranaki, and from Manukau to Wellington vLt Taranaki, Nelson, and Picton. No. 10. — From Hokitika to Nelson via Greymouth and Westpoi t, and .from Nelson to Hokitika via, Wostport and Grey- ■* mouth. No. 11. — From Hokitika to Manukau via Greymouth, Westport, Nelson, and Taranaki, and from Manukau to Hokitika via. Taranaki, Nelson, Westport, and Greymouth. No. 12. — From Wellington to Whanganui, and from Whanganiu to Wellington. A proper and secure room to be provided for the custody of the mails, and a chief cabin passage, free of cost, for a postal officer, if required. All mads to be landed, shipped, and transhipped by and at the expense of the contractor, excepting at Taranaki. The names, tonnage, and horse-power of the vessel* proposed to be employed in these services to be stated, and the vessels to be approved by the Postmaster-General, and subject to be surveyed by aoma poison appointed by him whenever lie may consider it necessary. I The Postmaster-General to have the power of detaining the vessel for two days at Auckland, or Manukau, as the case may be, if required to await the ai rival of the steamer fiom. San Francisco, without charge ; the rate of demurrage per hour for any further detention to be stated. A penalty of five pounds per hour will be enforced for delay in depaiture from any poit after the time fixed on each -voyage, to be remitted at the option of the PostmasterGeneral, if the steamer arrive at its destination at its proper time. Also, in addition, a penalty of one hundred and fifty pounds for failure to deliver the outward Mails in time for the homeward steamer in Auckland. Tenders to state the rate per diem, or otherw ise, for passages for members of the General Assembly and officers of the General Government, exclusive of wines, spirits, &c. Tenders to be addressed to the PostmasterGeneral, Wellington, and endorsed — ' ' Tenders for New Zealand Inter-Provincial Steam Mail Service, No. — ." JULIUS VOGEL, Postmaster-General, Auckland, N.Z., February 4, 1870.

<T**HE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT 1 OP OTAGO invite TENDERS from smy company willing to undertake the CONSTRUCTION of the OTAGO SOUTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY. The proposed line of Railway extends from Dunedin to Balclutha, a distance of about 51^ miles, and forms an outlet to the prosperous mining districts of Woolshed, Weatherston's, Tuapeka, Teviot, and Switzer's, and intersects the fertile agricultural districts of Green Island, Taieri, Tokomairiro, and Clutha. By the Southern Trunk Railway Guaranteed Interest Ordinance (No. 2), 1867, the Government is empowered to guarantee interest at a rate not exceeding 8 per cent, per annum on the paid-up capital of any Company which may be formed for the construction of the proposed line of Railway, to the extent of £400,000 of such capital, and for a period of 15 years from tho commencement of the works ; and by the Southern Trunk Railway G.ua.ra.ntoed Interest Amendment Ordinance, JBG7, any Company formed for the construction of the Railway may ina,ko money payable to the Company wider the guarantee payable to the holders of -any Debentures which may be issued by the Company in order to raise capital for the construction, of the Railway. I Plans and sections of the Railway, and conditions of agreement, embracing specifications for the construction and working of the Railway, together with copies of th Acts and Ordinances authorising the construction of same and the guaranteeing of interest upon the capital to be expended may be seen on and after the 15th December next at the Office of Public Works, Melbourne ; and at the Office of Public Works, Sydney ; and also at the Provincial Government Offices at Auckland, Wellington, Ohristehurch, and Dunedin ; at all of which places statistical information of the popula tion and trade of the Province may be ob tamed. The Government will also be prepared to receive and consider alternative tenders, for the construction o,f $je R;ailw-ay ojn any 'other qondi^ipns {within the provisions and restrictions 01 the Ordinances,) which, tenderers may propose. Government "will require satisfactory evidence that the tenderers will be able to command sufficient capital to enable them to oonstruct t"he works in the event of their tender being accepted. Each of the tenderers will require to deposit a sum of Ten Thousand Pounds (£10,000) as a guarantee of g^o^ f^fth. T^he j deposits of such of tjl^a whose pro- ' posals $\aj\ be, declined will be returned fof ihwjitJCj and the deposit of the successful tenderer will be returned, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, ag «a labour and materials to the "%xsas o| £$0,000 i shall have been, e^en^e.^ uppjoTtne works. I Tender^ will be received at the GovernI ment Offices^ Bnnedin, till noon of the First day of March, 1870

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