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No. 105. Waerant. His Excellency the Govebnob to the Hon. the Postmaster-General. To the Bight Honourable Richard John Seddon, Postmaster-General. In pursuance of the provisions of section eight of " The Post Office Act, 1881," I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Eanfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby direct you, Eichard John Seddon, Postmaster-General of the said colony, to enter into a contract in writing, on behalf of the Government of the said colony, with the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (Limited) for the carriage of mails each way between Lyttelton and Onehunga, in performance of the interprovincial service connecting with the mail-service between Auckland and San Francisco, for the period from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred, both days inclusive; the contract to be subject in all respects to such terms and conditions as to you shall seem fit. Given under my hand, at Wellington, in the said colony, this seventeenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. Banfurly.

No. 106. The Sbcbbtaky, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Managing Director, Union Steam Ship Company, Dunedin. Sir,— General Post Office, Wellington, 23rd January, 1900. I have the honour to refer to your letter of the 22nd September last, in connection with the conditions attached to the call at New Plymouth of the steamer carrying the San Francisco mail, and to inform you that the Postmaster-General agrees to the words " weather and tide being suitable " being added to clause 2 of my letter of the Ist July last. I have, &c, The Managing Director, W. Gray, Secretary. Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (Limited), Dunedin, Ai>proxiniate Cost of faper.— Preparation, not given; printing (1,450 copies), j>l9 10s.

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