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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 429, 13 December 1856, Page 3

CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB. A Special General Meeting will be held at the Golden Fleece Hotel, Christchurch, on Saturday, the 13th instant, at 3 o'clock, to consider tho programme' of tho January races to be submitted by tho Committee. By order of tho Committee, T. CASS, Secretary. ALLIANCE FIRE OFFICE. Established 1824. CAPITAL £5,000,000. THE Undersigned, being fully empowered, are prepared to grant policies of Insurance in the above Company, at the usual colonial rates. A. E. WHITE & CO. Lyttelton, Dee. 10,1850. GOVERNMENT STEAM-BOAT SERVICE FOE 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 : 1. Some point in the River Avon or the River Heathcote, as near as possible to tho town of Christchurch. 2. Kaiapoi. 3. Akaroa. 11. It is required at the same time to provide for occasional steam communication between Port A^ictoria and the several landing places in other parts of |the 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 estabj lished; the other to be held in reserve in case of { , accidents, and to make occasional trips as in- ' ducement may offer. 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. 'i The Provincial Government are prepared to 'I enter into a contract for the performance of the .f above service for a term of three years, upon :\ one of the following conditions :— -> a. The Government will advance the sum t| of Five Thousand Pounds, (£5,000) to •\ the contractor, receiving valid security .)', for the insurance of the capital advanced, j At the termination of the contract, or -;" in the event of the capital being lost by accident, the Government will require '! *' its repayment, but the sum so repaid w , will be again advanced for the mainteX iuf nance of tliesameservice. No interestwill V be charged for the time of the contract. _| b. Secondly, If private capital be emploj-ed, '}l the Government will guarantee a fixed !_' bonus yearly to the amount of the >> yearly loss (if any) estimated to be in.3,' curred by the service. * c. Or, thirdly, The Government will •> guarantee a minimum rate of interest if. on the amount of the private capital \ invested in the undertaking. I V. _j 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- stcam- -'^ boats to bo employed—their size, power, and m| speed, not being less, and their draught notbeing _>*3 greater than those respectively set forth above; <! and also the time when the scrvicewillcommence. $*' Tho tenders must also state on which of the i_ abovementioned terms the contractor proposes 1^ to treat with the Government. If upon the •| J first—what is the nature of the security which 'I ■ will be offered. If on the second or third— V what will be the amount ol" the bonus or of the