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1891. NEW ZEALAND.

CONTRACT BETWEEN THE HOKONUI RAILWAY AND COAL COMPANY, LIMITED, AND THE NEW ZEALAND RAILWAY COMMISSIONERS (COPY OF).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

BOND. Know all men by these presents that we, the Hokonui Eailway and Coal Company (Limited) (hereinafter called " the said company "), George Eoxby Waddel, of Campbell town, in the County of Southland, in the Colony of New Zealand, merchant, and Charles Bradshaw, of Campbelltown, aforesaid, hotelkeeper, are held and firmly bound unto the New Zealand Eailway Commissioners, incorporated under "The Government Eailways Act, 1887," in the sum of one thousand pounds, to be paid to the said the New Zealand Eailway Commissioners, their successors or assigns, for which payment, to be well and truly made, we bind ourselves and every of us, and any two of us, the successors of us, the said company, and the heirs, executors, and administrators of us, the said George Eoxby Waddel and Charles Bradshaw, or of either of us, the said George Boxby Waddel or Charles Bradshaw, and every of them, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our respective seals, dated this twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety. Whereas Joseph George Ward, of Invercargill, in the said colony, grain merchant, recently agreed with the said the New T Zealand Eailway Commissioners for the repair of the Forest Hill Tramway for goods traffic by horse-power, as set forth in the contract hereinafter mentioned : And whereas it has since been agreed between the said Joseph George Ward and the said company that the said company should be substituted in such contract for and in the place of the said Joseph George Ward, as therein expressed : And whereas the said the New Zealand Eailway Commissioners have agreed with the said Joseph George Ward and the said company to accept the said company in the room and stead of and as the substitute for the said Joseph George Ward in such contract accordingly : And whereas the contract made between the said company, the said Joseph George Ward, and the said the New Zealand Eailway Commissioners is hereunto annexed, and marked with the letter B, and the said George Boxby Waddel and Charles Bradshaw have been proposed as sureties for the due fulfilment of the said contract : And whereas the said the New Zealand Eailway Commissioners have accepted the said George Eoxby Waddel and Charles Bradshaw as such sureties as aforesaid: Now the condition of the above-written bond is such that if the said company, their successors or assigns, shall and will well and faithfully perform and fulfil the aforesaid contract, and shall and will well and faithfully do, perform, and execute the several matters and things, and well and truly perform and keep the several conditions, stipulations, and provisions specified or referred to in the said contract according to the terms of the same, then the above-written bond shall be void, otherwise the same shall be and remain in full force and virtue. The common seal of the Hokonui Eailway and Coal Company j q Ward (Limited) was hereunto affixed at a meeting and by order of , J g' tjanan the Board of Directors of the said company, the twenty- p R _ D w ' rj^ OMPBOS fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and Directors ninety, in the presence of- - Thos. M. Macdonald, Solicitor, Invercargill. John Cobbet, Clerk to T. M. Macdonald, Solicitor, Invercargill. Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said George Eoxby Waddel (1.5.) Geo. E. Waddel. and Charles Bradshaw in presence of — (1.5.) Chas. Bbadshaw. Thos. M. Macdonald, Solicitor, Invercargill. John Cobbet, Clerk to T. M. Macdonald, Solicitor, Invercargill.

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