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Lyttelton Times, Volume XX, Issue 1129, 5 September 1863, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND MAIL STEAM SERVICES. TENDERS are required by the Government of New Zealand for the performance of the undermentioned services:— 1. A steamer to leave Melbourne within 24 hours after the due date of the arrival of the European Mail Contract Boat, for Port Chalmers, Otago, calling at the Bluff. To wait in Melbourne for the Mail, if detained, not more than four days after its due date. 2. A steamer to leave Port Chalmers for Melbourne, calling at the Bluff, carrying the homeward Mail of the Colony to Melbourne, not later than 2 p.m. on the 16th of each month, except February, and then on the 14th. The steamers employed must be subjeet to the approval of the Government, and must be able to maintain an average speed of not less than 8 knots an hour on each voyage. All Post Office Mails must be received on board and delivered to destination free of charge. Mails to be taken from and delivered on board of the European Mail Contract Steamer in Hobson's Bay, at the expense of the contractor. A free chief cabin passage must be at the service of a clerk or agent of the Post Office, on the requisition of the Government, and proper accommodation provided for sorting letters. The tender to state the amount of penalty recoverable for general non-performance of contract. A penalty of £100 per diem will be required for delay in departure after the time fixed on each voyage, and an additional penalty of £300 for failure, after such delay in delivering the homeward Mail in Melbourne prior to the departure of the European Mail Contract Boat from that port. The tenders may state the sum for which the whole or any portion of the ford-mentioned services will be undertaken. The contract to commence on January Ist, 1864, and to continue in force until the expiration of six calendar months' notice to be given by either of the parties to the other of his intention to determine the same; provided always that the contract shall not terminate before the 31st day of December, 1864. The tenders to be endorsed " Tenders for the New Zealand Mail Services," to be addressed to the Post-master-General of New Zealand, and to be posted at Dunedin not later than the 18th day of September next. READER GILSON WOOD. General Post Office, Auckland, 22nd June, 1863. 3045 NEW ZEALAND MAIL SERVICE. A BONUS of £350 will be paid by the SubTreasurer of the New Zealand Government of Dunedin, to the master of any steamboat which shall leave Melbourne with the New Zealand European Mails, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of the P. and O. Company's boat whenever the Aldinga has left without them, and deliver the same to the Postmaster at Dunedin, Otago, (landing the Southland portion at the Bluff, weather permitting,) within nine 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 Mail Agent (for whom a free chief cabin passage must be provided,) shall have certified 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 rest with that officer. ■ READER GILSON WOOD. General Post Office, New Zealand, July 16, 1863. 3354 NEW ZEALAND MAIL SERVICE. PERSONS intending to tender for the New Zealand Mail Service, in accoodrnce with the, terms of ad advertisement dated General Post"Office, Auckland, June 22nd, 1863, are requested to state separately in their tenders: — Ist. As respects the service from Otago to Melbourne: What difference in the amount of subsidy, if any, would be required, if the 17th or 18th days of the month were substituted, as the date for the mail steamers leaving • Port Chalmers, instead of the 16th? The difference to be stated for each of these dates. 2nd. As respects the service from Melbourne to Otago: What additional sum per diem 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 Bth day, from the due date of sailing?

READER GILSON WOOD. General Post Office, New Zealand, July 16, 1863. 3355 SHEEP FOLDS, SHEDS, FENCING. T UPPER and CO.'S GALVANISED CORRUGATED IRON for fencing, roofing sheds, &c. ; also, patent Galvanised Tiles, extensively used throughout the colonies. For price, drawings and catalogues, apply through any London merchant, or to the manufacturers, Tupper & Co., 61a, Moorgate street, London, and 6, Berkeley street, Birmingham. Catalogues may be obtained at the offices of this journal. 4670 E LEY'S AMMUNITION of every description for Sporting or Military Purposes. Double Waterproof Central Fire Caps, Felt Waddings to prevent the leading of Guns, Wire Cartridges for killing Game, &c., at long distances, Breach Loading Cartridge Cases, of superior quality, for Shot Guns and Rifles. Contractors to the War Department for Small Arms Ammunition. Jacob's Rifle Shell Tubes, Cartridges and Caps for Colts, Adams', and other Revolvers. Enfield Rifle Ammunition and Ball Cartridges, for Whitworth and Henry's Rifles, also for Wesley Richard's, Terry's, Wilson's, Prince's, Deane's, and other Breech Loaders. Bullets of uniform weight made by compression from soft refined lead. ELEY, BROS., Gray's-Inn-road, London, W.C., Wholesale only. 2929 HE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION, &c.—NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confidently recommended as a simple but certain remedy for indigestion. They act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in their operation; safe under any circumstances; and thousands of persons can now bear testimony to the benefits derived from their use. Sold in bottles at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and lis. each, by Chemists, Druggists, and Storekeepers in all parts of the world.—*** Orders to be made payable by London houses. 181 AUCE.—LEA & PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE, pronounced by Connoisseurs to be the only good Sauce, and applicable to every variety of dish. Extract of a Letter from a Medical Gentleman at Madras to his Brother at Worcester, May, 1851: —"Tel Lea & Perrins that their Sauce is highly esteemed xti India, and is, in my opinion, the most palatable as well as the most wholesome Sauce that is made." CAUTION. —Lea & Perrms beg to caution the public against spurious imitations of their celebrated Worcestershire Sauce. L. ana P. have discovered that several of the foreign markets have been supplied with spurious imitations, the labels closely resembling those of the genuine Sauce, and in one or more instances the°f L. & P. forged. L. & P. will proceed against any one who may manufacture or vend such imitations and have instructed correspondents m the various parts of the world to of any infringement of their rights.—Ask for Lea & rins' Sauce.—-V Sold wholesale and for export, by the proprietors, Worcester; Messrs. Crosse ABiackwell? Messrs. Barclay & Sons, London, &c., &c , and by grocers and oilmen universally. PIANO-FORTES.—CAUTION. ~ THE Public are respectfully cautioned ag«n»t buying: instruments bearing the name of Allison and Allison, as that Firm has beep in existence since the yM 1848 The gta having a right to that name is Ralph Allison and Snn«i" 108 Wardour street, London. ■■ ?587 (Signed) RALPH ALLISON fc SONS.