Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-10-29
The FRISCO Matt Contract


master-G General of New Zealand,
and Mr.. ]. Mills, on behalf of the
Union Steamship Company. The
Zealandia and Australia will be tenn
porariy employed between Sydney,
Auckland, and Honolulu, connecting at
the latter port with the fine steamers
of the Oceanic Company. The first
mail under the new contract leaves
Sydney on Thursday, December sd,
and Auckland on Friday, Decem-
Der 9th.
In the new San Francisco Mail con-
tract it is provided that two vessels
shall be employed between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu and two vessels
between Honolulu, Auckland, and sgd
ney. One-half of the passenger ac-
commodation afforded by each vessel
running between Frisco and Honolulu
is to be reserved for passengers to and
from Auckland, and Sydney, and one
half of the accommodation afforded by
each vessel running between Honolulu,
Auckland, and Sydney is to be reserved
for passengers to and from each of the
said colonies. Every vessel used
for this contract other than the
Zealandia and the Australia shall
be fitted with refrigerators or ice cham
bers, in which fish, ova, or other ma
tural productions may be conveyed on
each voyage between Frisco, Honolulu,
Auckland, and Sydney, and yi,e aersa.
The vessels shall call, if required by the
Postmaster-G General, off the Navigator
Islands for the purpose Of landing and
receiving mails, and at any other inter
mediate points, with consent of the
Postmasters- General or their respective
officers or agents, the delay Of any of
the vessels not exceeding Sc hours at
San Francisco or Honolulu, and not
exceeding "a hours at Sydney or Auck
land, free of charge for demurrage !;
and in order to ensure the carrying of
mails to and from Frisco and Homo
lulu, the contractors, without any such
notice, shall delay the departure of any
vessel Gf necssary) at Frisco and
Honolulu respectively for six days, to
await arrivals of mails from London,
and the same time at Honolulu for their
arrival from New Zealand for such at
San Francisco, but not at Honolulu
Demurrage at the rate of Is per hour
shall be paid to the contractor with the
exception Of the first sc hours. The
Postmaster-G General of New Zealand
shall be at liberty to postpone the de
parture of vessels from Auckland as
formerly. New South Wales and New
Zealand are entitled to retain for their
own use any subsidy or payment to
either Of them by the English Govern
ment, and to retain and divide between
them any subsidy paid by any other
Australasian colony or dependencies,
or any of the Polynesian Islands, for
conveyance of mails, the contractors are
entitled to the benefit of, and to receive
any subsidies or payment which they
may be able to induce any Government
other than the aforesaid to agree to pay
for the conveyance of mails, after de-
Quoting any payment made or expenses
incurred by the Postmaster General for
the conveyance Of such mails, and, pro-
vided that such arrangements are ap.
proved by the Postmaster-G General.
Three mail agents will accompany each
vessel instead Of four. During the con.
tinuance of the contract no charges for
pilotage, tonnage, lighthouse, or hsr-
Dor dues will be made in New South
Wales, and no charge for lighthouse
dues, tonnage, or harbour dues shall be
made at Auckland, they undertaking
to the Oceanic Company of Honolulu
The Frisco portion shall not be deem
ed to affect the liability of the contrac-
tors for the due performance of the en-
tire service. For failure to commence
the performance of contract, the con
tractors shall pay the sum of 675,o 900,
to be divide between New Zealand and
New South Wales in the proportion of
two-thirds and one-third respectively,
such sum to be received as liquidated
damages and not as penalty.
Premiums, penalty, and demurrage
shall be paid in thefollowing proportion:
New Zealand, two-thirds, and New
South Wales one-third. The period of
contract may be extended so as to in
clude an additional voyage, if necessary.
This contract shall be executed by the
Postmaster General of New South
Wales within rs days, and if there is
anything in the contract with which he
is dissatisfied, or which he desires to
be reconsidered, the same shall be open
to reconsideration, and he may execute
the contract subject to such recon-
mendation. Should he avail himself of
these provisions the Postmaster-G Gen-
eral of New Zealand shall be deemed
equally entitled to reconsider the same
matter. Should the Postmaster-G General
of New South Wales decline to execute
the contract, or should New South
Wales Parliament refuse to ratify, it
shall be optional with the Postmaster
General to determine it The con
tractors undertake part liabilities of
the said Postmaster General, subject to
such modification as the contractors
may agree to-
IA later dispatch states that Mr..
Pearce, of the Pacific Mail Company,
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