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Otago Daily Times, Issue 521, 21 August 1863, Page 2

Government Notices. NEW ZEALAND MAIL SERVICE. A BONUS of £350 will be paid by the SubTreasurer of the New Zealand Government at Dunedin, to the master of any steamboat which shall leave Melbourne with the Kew Zealand European Mails, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of the P. and 0. Company's boat whenever the Aldhiga has left without them, and deliver the same to the Postmaster at Dunedin, Ot.ngo, (landing the Southland _ portion at tho Bluff, weather permitting1,) 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. Tne Postmaster-General of Melbourne, or some person appointed by him, must ba satisfied that any boat offering has sufficient steam-power to perform the service required; and in case ot there being a choice oi boats, the selection to rest with that officer. (Signed) . ■ ■■■<\: READER GILSON WOOD." General Post Office, New Zealand, July 16th, 18G3. miß W A N T E D ! pTAA ACTIVE FOUNG MEN, TO PROCEED TO AUCKLAND. THE 2 WAIKATO THROWN OPEN FOR MILITIA SETTLERS. MILITARY AND NAVAL SETTLERS AND - SETTLERS GENERALLY. T7^ VERY INFORMATION regarding the duties to be done, and the nature of the LAND to be GIVEN, cau be had on application at the AUCELAKD VOLUNTEER OFFICE, (Provincial Hotel Buildings), where Printed Regulations can be seen; W. MASON, M.H.R., Agent for the General Government; Tub Following are the Regulations under which Volunteers will be Enrolled : -- Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 3rd August, 1863. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct the publication, for general information, of the following conditions upon which Land situated in the Waikato country, in the Province of Auckland, will be granted to Settlers willing to perform the after-mentioned Military services. Alfred Domett. ' NEW ZEALAND. /CONDITIONS upon which Land in the Waikato \J country, in the Province of Auckland, will be granted to Settlers willing to perform the after-men-tioned Military services:— 1. iNo man aljove the-age of 40 years will ba accepted, and every applicant will be sul-ject to an examination by at officer appoio ted by the Governor, and must produce such certificates of good character, health, and general fitness for the service, as such officer shall require. . 2. Each accepted applicant will be provided, at the expense of the Government, with-a passage to Auckland. Before embarkation, he will be required to sign a declaration and agreement to the effect that lie understands and will be bound by and fulfil these conditions. 3. On arrival at Auckland, the men will be enrolled'in the Militia for service in the Biovinee, and formed into companies; constituted as nearly as may be as follows:— 1 Captain ■ • ., - 1 Subaltern '5 Serjeants ;... , , ; 5 Corporals 1.00 Privates. 4. Each man according to his rank will be entitled to pay, rations, and.allowances, until, he is authorised by the Government to take possession of his land, when lie will be relieyed from " actual service." 5. Settlements will be surveyed and marked out at the expense of the Government. 6. Each settlement will-comprise not less than 100 town allotments, and 100 farm sections. 7. A stockade on the most eligible site in each settlement will be erected at the expense of the Government. 8. A town will be laid out. around, or as near as conveniently may be to the stockade, in one acre allotments. • ■ .. 9. Farms will be laid oat around, or as near as may be conveniently to town. The size of the farm section allotted to each will be according to his rank in the Militia. For a Field Officer ... .. 400 acres. „ Captain ... ... 300 „ „ Surgeon 250 ~ „ Subaltern 200 ~ „ Sergeant . ... ... SO „ „ Corporal .. ... 60 „ „ Private ... ... 50 „ 10. Every settler under these conditions, who upon being relieved from actual service, receives a certificate of good conduct, will be entitled to one town allotment and one farm section. 11. Priority of choice for each rank will be determined by lot. 12. After taking possession he will be entitled to receive rations, free of cost for twelve months, upon the same scale as supplied to Her Majesty's troops; he will be allowed to retain possession, as a militiaman, of his arras and accoutrements, and he will be supplied with ammunition for use according to militia regulations. 13. No settler after taking possession will be permitted during the first three years after his enrolment in the Militia to absent himself from his settlement for more than one calendar month in one year without the leave of the Governor first obtained. 14. During such three years he will be liable to be trained and exercised as other miJitiamen ; and whenever a portion only of the Militia shall be called out for actual service, each settler will be deemed to be a Volunteer Militiaman, and will be required to serve as such within the Province. During such service he will be entitled to the same pay, rations and allowances as other Militiamen. 15. On the expiration of three years from his enrolment, each settler, having fulfilled the conditions, but not otherwise, will be entitled to a Crown Grant of the town allotmeut and farm section allotted to him ; and will thenceforth be subject only to the same Militia service as other colonists. 16. Any settler will be permitted to dispose of his land to any person approved of by the Government; and such person undertaking to be subject to the same liabilities will be entitled to the same privileges as the settler whose place he takes. 17. Incase of the death, of any settler, before he shall have become entitled to his Crown Grant, the land to which he is entitled will be granted to his wile or children, or to such other person as he shall by writing appoint; or it may be taken for the location of another settler under these conditions, or for any other pm-pose, but the value thereof in such amounTnald J C J et<™ed by valuation, and the amount paid by the Government to the settler's Form of Declaua™ akd Agreement. I do hereby declare that I fully understand tho « Conditions hereunto annexed, anl Ido f± ge and agree to be bound thereby and punctuall/on "ny part to fulfil all the terms thereof. y Note.-The pay of the Militia and Volunteers serving in the Province of Auckland, is as follows •■— Captains Us 7d per diem Lieutenants 6s 6d Ensigns ..... 5s 3d Sergeants 33 6d „ Coiporals 3s Privates ... ... 2s 6d " With Rations and other AUowanw,