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Free Lance, Volume VI, Issue 291, 27 January 1906, Page 14

STEAM SERVICE JNEW ZEALAND TO SOUTH APRipA. m ENDERS are invited by the New X Zealand Government — First, for a direct steam tervioe between NewZealand ports and South Africa; seoond, for a service between New Zealand ports and South Africa, via Premantle, with permission to call at one other port in Australia. CONDITIONS. The Contract to be for a period . of two years. The service to be six-weekly. The steamers to ba not less than three thousand five hundred tons register, and their draught, when loaded, must enable them to discharge at wharves at South African ports. Lighterage, when necessary, to be paid by contractor*. The steamers to be fittedL with refrigerators to carry frozen meat, and dairy produce. Tenderers to state the maximum amount of refrigerator space. Tenderers to state- maximum accommodation for live stock. The steamers to have minimum accommodation for twenty saloon and twenty-five steerage passengers, and to provide suitable space for mails. The speed of steamers to> be not leas than ten knots (ocean going), with penalty and bonds on a scale to be arranged, but not to exceed £500 per voyage. The steamers to load "at four selected ports in New Zealand in geographical order, and to discharge at the three following pots in South Africa: Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Table Bay. ' The rates: of freight from New Zealand ports to South Africa shall not be greater than the following:: — Wheat, at per ton weight, 27s 6d. Flour, at per ton weight, 275. 6d. Barley, at per ton weight, 27s 6d. * Oats, at per ton weight, 27s 6d. Bran, at per ton weight, 30s. potatoes, in sacks, at per ton weight, Potatoes, in boxes, at per ton of 50 cubic feet measurement, 30s. Hay, oaten or meadow, pressed in" bales, at per ton of 50 cubic feet measurement, 32s 6d. Horses and full-grown cattle, £10 10s each. Frozen meat andi dairy produce at current summer rates ruling; between New Zealand and London. Other goods at rates current between New Zealand and London. The rates of freight from; New Zealand to FreinantLe must not exceed the rates current from time to time from Sydney and! Melbourne to Fremantle. Tenderers to state. What period of time required before berthing the first steamer in New Zealand, such time to count from 1 the date of acceptance of tender. Tenderers are required to state the different amounts of subsidy letraiirad per voyage for either of the services. A tender andi its acceptance are to be considered the establishment of a contract binding on both sides, the cardinal points are to be ctaißistent with this advertisement, the tender, and its acceptance. Should any dispute arise over minor points, the matter in dispute shall be referred 1 to arbitration. A deposit of £2000 is to accompany each tender, and in the case of thesucoessful tenderer to b9 returned upon completion of a satisfactory charter. Marked, written, or telegraphic tenders addressed to the Secretary for Industries and Commeroe, Wellington, New Zealand, or to the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London, will be received up to and! including the 31st January , 1906. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. i. E. DONNE, Secretary. Department of Industries and Commerce. Wellington, 22nd December, 1905.

WADE'S PATENT SKYLIGHT. rpHIS splenaia improvement ha* quite revolutioD- •*- lsed the question of having Roof Lights, a few years back » thing to be avoided was a skylight, bat WADE'S is now used with every confidence, on account of its complete success as regards being water-tight, giving plenty of light, ventilation, durability, cheapness ; besides having to withstand the usual test in all good and useful patent*, the infringer, this it has also proved most completely See Post and Times, 19th and 21st October, 1901 Consequently, we must ask our long Hit of oustomers and the general public to beware of imitation!. Note address — BALLINGEE BEOS., Waring Taylqr and Kfaginnity streett Wellington. Sole Owners and Manufacturers for the South end of North Island, and the North end of South Island. Telephone 99.

EENEST C. LEVVEY, OARRISTER AND SOLICITOR, If 42, Lambton Quay. Trust Funds to lend on Real and Personal Security. Lowest rates of interest.