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Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1766, 13 September 1862, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND MAIL STEAM SERVICES. mENDERS are required by the GovernJL ment of New Zealand for the performance of the undermentioned services. 1. A Steamer to leave Melbourne each month within 24 hours after the arrival of the European Mail contract boat, for Port Chalmers, Otago, calling at the Bluff: and thence calling at Lyttelton, Wellington, Picton and Nelson, to Sydney. To wait in Melbourne for the mail if detained ,for not more than four days after the due date. To remain in Port Chalmers three days ; in Wellington, Lyttelton, and Nelson, two days each ; and in Picton one day. 2. A steamer to leave Sydney on or about the Ist of each month for Nelson, and thence calling at Picton, Wellington Lyttelton, Port Chalmers, and the Bluff, carrying the homeward Mail from the Colony, to Melbourne. To be ready to leave Port Chalmers at 2 p.m., on the 18th of each month, except February, and then on the 16th. The Steamers to be employed must be subject to the approval of the Government, and must be able to maintain an average speed of not less than 8 knots an hour oa 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 ot a clerk or agent of the Post Office, on the requisition of the Government. The tender to state the amount of penalty recoverable for general non-per-formance of contract : a penalty of .£IOO 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 forementioned Services will be undertaken. The Contract to commence on the Isfc January, 1863, or on any earlier date that may be agreed upon, to continue for the term of twelve successive trips each way, and to be determinable after that time by six months notice on either side. Tenders, marked — "Tenders for New Zealand Mail Services," to be addressed to the Postmaster-General of New Zealand, and to be posted in New Zealand not later than 15th October next. Crosbie Ward. General Post Office, Wellington, 28th August, 1862. Office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, Wellington, September 3, 1862. IJQHN ELISHA SMITH, Registrar a of Joint Stock Companies within the Province of Wellington, do hereby notify that I have registered a memorandum of Association, wiSi Articles of Association annexed, establishing a Company (with limited liability of the Shareholders therein) entitled the/ New Zealand Steam Navigation Company, Limited," the objects of which are, the conveyance oi passengers and goods in ships or boats between such places as the Company may from time to tune determine, and the doing all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of those objects ; and that in pursuance of the provisions of "The Joint Stock Companies Act, 1860," I have issued a certificate of Incorporation of the said Company, bearing date this third day of September, 1862. John Elisha Smith, Registrar of Joint Stock Companies,