PAPERS RELATIVE TO CONVEYANCE OF MAILS VIA .UEZ. (In continuation of Papers presented 6th August, 1870.)

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1870 Session I, E-03

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PAPERS RELATIVE TO CONVEYANCE OF MAILS VIA .UEZ. (In continuation of Papers presented 6th August, 1870.)

PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BY COMMAND OF HIS EXCELLENCY. "WELLINGTON. 1870.

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No. 1. Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G., to the Right Hon. Earl Geantille, K.G. (No. 120.) My Lobd, — Government House, "Wellington, 14th September, 1869. At the request of my Responsible Advisers I have the honor to transmit herewith the enclosed Ministerial Memorandum covering a draft and credit receipt for £9,895 ss. 5d., being a further payment on account of the contributions due from Kew Zealand to the main line of steam service between Great Britain and Australia. I have, &c, The Right Hon. Earl Granville, K.G. G. P. Bowen.

Enclosure in No. 1. Memoeandum from the Hon. J. Vogel to His Excellency the Goyeenoe. His Excellency is respectfully requested to forward the accompanying draft and credit receipt, for the sum of £9,895 ss. 5d., to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, being a further payment on account of contribution due from New Zealand to the main line of steam service between Great Britain and Australia. Julius Vogel, General Post Office, 4th September, 1869. Postmaster-General.

No. 2. Mr. Gr. Eliott Eliott to the Seceetaby, General Post Office, London. Sic, — General Post Office, "Wellington, 13th September, 1869. Referring to Mr. Hall's letter of the 30th July, 1868, representing that, as it was the intention of this Government to discontinue to subsidize a mail steamer to run between New Zealand and Australia, in connection with the steam mail service with Great Britain via Suez, it would necessarily follow that the moiety of the cost of the service to Australia, contributed by the Imperial Post Office, would cease also, as well as the commuted payment of £300 paid by New Zealand on account of postages collected on correspondence sent by this route, I have the honor to inform you that in consequence of the cessation of the operations of the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Eoyal Mail Company, it became necessary to re-establish the service between New Zealand and Australia, in order to complete the postal connection of this Colony with Great Britain by the Suez route. A contract was accordingly entered into in April last for the four mail services between New Zealand and Australia, at £600 each, and which was subsequently extended to four additional services at £850 each, after the termination of the first four. This temporary arrangement was made pending the consideration by the Colonial Legislature (then shortly to be assembled) of the whole question of steam postal services, both Intercolonial and Interprovincial. This Government, therefore, trusts that such instructions will be issued by Her Majesty's Post-master-General as may be necessary to restore the arrangement whereby the Imperial Post Office paid one moiety of the cost of this service, not, as previously, to exceed the sum of £6,500 per annum. The House of Representatives, during the Session just ended, adopted a resolution to endeavour to establish steam postal communication with Great Britain by way of San Erancisco, and the railway thence to New York, and declined to vote any funds for the continuance of the Intercolonial service to Australia, beyond the period for which a contract had been entered into, and it will accordingly cease on the completion of the eight services above alluded to. This Colony will, of course, be liable to the commuted payment of £300 per annum during the period for which the Imperial Government contributes a moiety of the cost of this service. I enclose a statement showing the period for which the mail service between New Zealand and Australia is to continue, the amount payable by the Colony for that service, and the sum due as contribution on account of it by the Imperial Post Office. I have, &c, G. Eliott Eliott The Secretary, General Post Office, London. (for the Postmaster-General). Enclosure in No. 2. Statement of the Cost of Contracts for Inteecolonial Steam Mail Services entered into by the New Zealand Government with Messrs. McMeckan, Blackwood, and Co. I. Eor four double trips between Melbourne and Wellington, commencing in £ s. d. April, and ending in August, 1869, at £600 per double trip ... ... 2.400 0 0 11. Eor four double trips, commencing in September, and ending in December, 1869, at £850 per double trip ... ... ... ... 3,400 0 0 Total ...£5,800 0 0. Moiety of which to be contributed by the Imperial Government, £2,900 0 0 G. Eliott Eliott.

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No. 3. Mr. W. J. Page to the Hon. the Postmastee-General. Sic, — General Post Office, London, 31st December, 1569. In reply to your letter of the 13th September last, upon the subject of the temporary re-establishment of the mail service between New Zealand and Australia, in consequence of the cessation of the packet service between Wellington and Panama, I am directed by the PostmasterGeneral to inform you that, as the sum which this department is asked to contribute towards the expense incurred by the Colonial Government in maintaining the new service from April to December, 1869, does not exceed that which was paid formerly, His Lordship has given directions for the payment to your office of the sum of £2,900, as requested, being one moiety of the expense incurred. On the other hand, the Colony of New Zealand will pay to this department, as formerly, at the rate of £300 per annum in lieu of the postage collected on correspondence conveyed by the branch packet service between New Zealand and Australia. I have, &c, The Postmaster-General, Wellington, "W. J. Page. New Zealand.

No. 4. Mr. G. Eliott Eliott to the Seceetaey, General Post Office, London. Sic,— General Post Office, Wellington, 28th March, 1870. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 31st December last, in reply to my communication of the 17th September, intimating that his Lordship the Postmaster-General had given directions for the payment to this Government of tho sum of £2,900, being one moiety of the expense incurred in maintaining the mail service, from April to December, 1869, between New Zealand and Australia; and with reference to this matter, and the contribution due by New Zealand, to tho main line of steam service via Suez, I have the honor to forward the enclosed statement of account between this Colony and the United Kingdom, showing a balance in favour of the Colony of £564 6s. I have, &c, G. Eliott Eliott The Secretary, General Post Office, London. (for the Postmaster-General).

Enclosure in No. 4. STATEMENT.—NEW ZEALAND in account with the UNITED KINGDOM.

Br. Cr. 869. £ s. d. Amount of contribution due from New Zealand to main line of Mail Service, via Suez, to 31st December, 1869, as per statement of Receiver and Ac-countant-General, of the loth April, 1869 ... ... ... ... 17,933 19 4 Proportionate amount, from April to December, 1869, of a sum of £300 per annum, payable by New Zealand on account of Postages collected on correspondence sent between New Zealand and Australia ... ... 185 0 0 1869. £ s. d. June 7. By Remittance ... ... 5,887 19 11 Sept.4. By Remittance ... ... 9,895 5 £ Moiety due by the United Kingdom of expense incurred in maintaining Mail Service between New Zealand and Australia, from April to December, 1869, as per letter of the Secretary, General Post Office. London, 31st December, 1869 ... ... ... 2,900 0 0 £18,118 19 4 balance due to New Zealand ... ... 564 6 0 £18,683 5 4 £18,683 5 4 G. Eliott Eliott.

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No. 5, Copy of a Despatch from the Right Hon. Earl Granville to Governor Sir Or. F. Bowen. Sic, — Downing Street, 19th May, 1870. I transmit to you a copy of a Report which has been received through the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, from the Receiver and Accountant General of the Post Office, accompanied by a statement of the amounts chargeable to the several Australian Colonies and New Zealand, on account of the Mail Packet service for the year ending the 31st December, 1870, together with an account current showing the whole balance which will be due from each Colony on 31st December, next. Their Lordships are desirous that a remittance of one half of the amount due by the Colony under your Government up to the 31st of December next, may be made as soon after the 30th of June as possible, and that the balance then remaining due may be remitted immediately after the expiration of each subsequent quarter. I have, &c., Governor Sir G. E. Bowen, G.C.M.G., Granville. &c, &c., &c.

Enclosure in No. 5. Repoet from the Receives and Accountant-Geneeal of the Post Office, explanatory of the Account against the Austealian Colonies and New Zealand, for Post Office Packet Service during the year ending 31st December, 1870. The Account of sums payable by the Australasian Colonies for the Mail Packet Service during the year 1870, is annexed. It will be observed that there is a considerable difference in the sums charged against the Colonies individually, as compared with those in the preceding account. This difference is attributable to the cessation, in January 1869, of the Mail Service via Panama, the effect of which has been to increase the amounts chargeable to New Zealand and New .South Wales, and to diminish the proportions to the other Colonies. In the " Account Current," under the head of " Amounts chargeable for the years 1868 and 1869," credit has been taken for the proportionate sums chargeable against the Australian Colonies on account of the additional subsidy claimed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, in each of the years named, in virtue of Clause 38 of the contract of 19th November, 1867. The sums in question have been debited to the Colonies in proportion to the number of letters carried for each Colony during the years 1868 and 1869 respectively. The Balances due upon the previous accounts have been remitted in full by Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Western Australia. New Zealand owes a portion of its contribution for 1869, in addition to its contribntion for the current year. South Australia and Queensland still owe more than half of the Balances standing to their debit in the account for 1869. The respective Governments of these two last-named Colonies should be requested to remit the outstanding Balances without delay. Geo. Chetwynd, General Post Office, London, April, 1870. Receiver and Accountant-General.

A STATEMENT of CREDITS allowed to the AUSTRALIAN COLONIES in 1870, on account of the previous year. PENALTIES INFLICTED and PREMIUMS EARNED on the performance of the Mail Packet Service between Point de Galle and Sydney, from 1st January, to 31st December, 1869.

Penalties. Pee: ciums. Dates to Number. Amounts. Number. Amounts. £ £ 100 50 150 200 list March, 1869 10th June, 1869 iOth September, 1869 !lut December, 1869 "i 4 "i i 4 800 2 1 3 4 Excess of Penalties over Premiums L at 10 500 *300 !Half divisible between the Colonies 800 800 150

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AN ACCOUNT showing the Amounts chargeable on the Australian Colonies and New Zealand, on Account of the Mail Packet Service for the year ending 31st December, 1870.

ACCOUNT CURRENT for the Year 1870, in continuation of that rendered for the Year 1869.

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