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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 428, 10 December 1856, Page 9

CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB. A Special General Meeting will be held at the Golden Fleece Hotel, Ciiristcliurch, on Saturday, the 13th instant, at 3 o'clock, to consider the programme ol" the January races to bo submitted by the Committee. !By order of the Committee, T. CASS, Secretary. NEW YEAR'S DAY. "T) ARTIES interested are requested to JL attend a Public Meeting1 to be held at the Mitre Hotel, on Thursday evening next, the 11th instant, to take into consideration the most appropriate method of celebrating the advent of the coming year. EDWi). GENET. Secretary, pro torn. GOVERNMENT STEAM-BOAT SERVICE ro.u the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY. I. IT is required to establish a regular communication, by means of Steam-boats, between Port Victoria and the. following places : ..,- -f 1. Some point in the River Avon or the '"*' River Heath cote, as near as possible to the town of Christchurch. 2. Kaiapoi. 3. Akaroa. 11. It is required at the same time to provide for occasional steam communication between Port Victoria and the several landing places in other parts of fjthe province, such as the bays of Banks's Peninsula, Motunau, Timaru &c, for the purpose of collecting wool and other produce usually shipped at those places. 111. It is believed that two steam-boats, at least, will be required to perform this service, one to be employed on the regular line to be established ; the other to be held in reserve in case of accidents, and to make occasional trips as inducement may oiler. It is considered that such boats ought to have at least forty tons clear stowage room below decks ; to be of not less than twenty horse power; to have a speed of not less than eight knots; and to draw not more than four and a-half feet of water. IV. The Provincial Government are prepared to enter into a contract for the performance of the above service for a term of tlrree years, upon one of the following conditions:— a. The Government will advance the sum of Five Thousand Pounds, (£5,000) to the contractor, receiving valid security for the insurance of the capital advanced. At the termination of the contract, or in the event of the capital being lost by accident, the Government will requh-e its repayment, but the sum so repaid will be again advanced for the maintenance of the same service. No interest will be charged for the time of the contract. b. Secondly, If private capital be employed, the Government will guarantee a fixed bonus yearly to the amount of the yearly loss (if any) estimated to be incurred by the service. c. Or, thirdly, The Government will guarantee a minimum rate of interest on the amount of the private capital invested in the undertaking. V. The Provincial Government are prepared to receive tenders for the performance of the above mentioned service. The tenders must state the mode in which the required service is proposed to be performed—the number of trips which it is proposed to make in a given time to each of the places specified—the number of the steamboats to V» employed—their size, power, and speed, not being k-»«, :uul their draught not being greater than those respectively set forth above; and also the time when the ser/ice will commence. The tenders must also stat3 on which of the abovementioned terms the contractor proposes to treat with this Government. If upon the first —v'hat is the nature of the security which will be oil'ered. If on the second or third— what will be the amount of the bonus or of the j