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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 434, 31 December 1856, Page 3

%;/,; ALLIANCE FIRE OFFICE. jf|,l\. Established 1821. t fe/: CAPITAL £5,000,000. >.^pHE Undersigned, being fully cmli.' powered, are prepared to grant poli- ■ ,lW of Insurance in the above Company, at the liquid colonial rates. "It • A. E. WHITE & CO. sjtfXyttclfon, Dec. 10,1856. KffOVEENMENT STEAM-BOAT SERVICE '■»\ : I'OU THE |£- PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY. . j£l~T is required to establish a regular comlyL. niunieation, by means of Steam-boats, Port Victoria and the following places : \'\- 1. Some point in the River Avon or the *£*„ River Heathcote, as near as possible to X^ the town of Christchurch. t |||\ 2. Kaiapoi. *W' , 3. Akaroa. lit .' IL /_■£ It is recpiii'ed at the same time to provide for kjfoet isional steam communication between Port -toria and the several landing places in other [•$' u-Ls of the province, such as the bays of jjv,* anks's Peninsula, Motunau, Timaru &c, for feM juirposo of collecting wool and other pro- ' Mi-'ve usually shipped at those places. (ft is believed that two steam-boats, at least, : ill' be required to perform this service, one to je employed on the regular line to be estabdied ; the other to he held in reserve in case of vjdents, and to make occasional trips as inlucement may offer. It is considered that such louts ought to have at least forty tons clear •towage room below decks; to be of not less '>'in twenty horse power; to have a speed of .',•.' less than eight knots ; and to draw not ,re than four and a-half feet of water. P' IV" If . The Provincial Government are prepared to [4 c .ter into a contract for the performance of the y 'ijvo service ibr a term of three years, upon ."'.out of the following conditions : — "I'-k a. The Government will advance the sum of Five Thousand Pounds, (£5,000) to .<..>r-ii j_] ie con tractor, receiving valid security « f* ' for the insurance of the capital advanced. I, ' At the termination of the contract, or |, in the event of the capital being lost by F, accident, the Government will require te its repayment, but the sum so repaid > will be again advanced for the maintenanccof tliesameservice. No interestwill v»'i bo 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 in*i , curred by the service. £% c. Or, thirdly, The Government will Vf J'" guarantee a minimum rate of interest kfl t r on the amount of the private capital $$* I>' invested in the undertaking. - <_S o If ' V!.jf Tho Provincial Government are prepared to tenders for the performance of the above £«pV. -ntioned service. The tenders must state the yjrjviode in which the required service is proposed ;l|£" 'be performed—the number of trips which it Vlf proposed to make in a given time to each of ||f< o places specified—the number of the steam- |¥. Its to be employed—their size, power, and KEwMoed, not being less, and their draught notbeing Ip^c.iter than those respectively set forth above; "'al also the time when the service will commence. %\ fie tenders must also state on which of the :.';£" nvementioned terms the contractor proposes ]Sf '-treat with the Government. If upon the s*jf/ A —what is the nature of the security which pi ' '.'''' be offered. If on the second or third — ?f, M^ w"l u0 u0 -'mount of the bonus or of tho 'fe f -' of interest which the Government will be 'mred to guarantee yearly.' 'fl; vll tonders must bo sent into this oflico Sr)/ ithinfour months from the date hereof. -£#; By hi.s Honor's command, |f JOSEPH BRITTAN, |jf Provincial Secretary, § Provincial Secretary's Of lice, I Christclnu'ch, 'Doc. 0, 1850.