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19. And, further, that all mails which by the terms of this contract are to be taken by the said contractors to the Bluff Harbour, or received by them there, shall by and at the expense of the said Postmaster-General, or his successors in office, be there taken from, or as the case may require delivered to the contractors' steam-ship which may call at Bluff Harbour to deliver or receive such> mails. 20. It is lastly agreed by and between the said parties hereunto, that the service hereby contracted for shall commence on the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and shall be carried on ; and this contract shall continue in force until determined by notice, under the provisions of the fourteenth clause hereof, or until one of the said parties hereto shall have given to the other of them six months' notice of an intention to determine the same, and until the said six months Bhall have expired ; provided always that the said service and contract shall not be determined by such notice as last aforesaid, before the eleventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, except in the case of habitual negligence, or wilful default, as hereinbefore provided. In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals, the day, month, and year first hereinbefore written. Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said James James McMechan, M'Meckhan and John Hutchison Black- }■ Tohw Hutchison Blackwood, wood, in the presence of J .Thomas B. Gillies. R. W. Nltt, Solicitor and Notary Public, Melbourne. Signed, sealed, and delivered by Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, Postmaster-General of the Colony of New Zealand in the presence of John Richmond, Clerk, Dunedin. No. 24. Notice to I.C.R.M. Company, terminating Contract. To the Inter-colonial Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, (Limited), Ac, Ac, Ac. In pursuance of the provisions of the Contract of 28th May, 1858, made between Zachariah Charles Pearson and James Coleman of the one part, and the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, (for and on behalf of Her Majesty) of the other part, for the Inter-colonial and Inter-provincial Mail Steam Services of New Zealand, and of the delegation of powers in pursuance thereof, I Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, do hereby give you notice that the said contract shall terminate at the expiration of the first seven years thereof, that is to say, on the Ist day of November, 1865. Given under my hand at the Government House, at Auckland, this 30th day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. G. Gret. By His Excellency's Command, Thomas B. Gillies, Postmaster-General cf New Zeal;; ml. The Contract between the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and the Inter-colonial Royal Mail Company is printed in the Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives for 1860, D.—No. 1., fol. 29. CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING ESTABLISHING A STEAM SERVICE BETWEEN VICTORIA AND AUCKLAND. No. 25. Chamber of Commerce, Auckland. 30th June 1864. SrH — I have the honor te enclose copy of Resolutions passed at a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday last, convened for the purpose of taking into consideration the subsidiying a steamer between Auckland and A'ictoria. I have, Ac, J. A. GILFILLAN. Chairman. The Hon. the Postmaster General, of New Zealand.

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