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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 335, 16 January 1856, Page 3

SALE OF TOWN RESERVES. Provincial Secretary's OlJiee, Cliristchurch, 28th," Nov. 1855. PUBLIC NOTICE. HIS lION OH. IHR SuVEUfNTKNIVKNT directs it to bo notified for ptiblic inforniiilioii. that the Town Reserves of Christchi.'rch are open fur Sale on the following terms; and that a Map signed by the Provincial Engineer, may be seen during Office hours, in the Provincial Secretary's Office, Cbristchureh, setting ibrth the Sections into which the land will be divided for the purpose of sale, with a list attached, describing ■ the number, measurement, contents, and upset price of every Section. 1. Every person desirous of purchasing any |>" tion of the Town Reserves must make a written application, addressed to the ProvineiarSecretary, stating the section or sections winch he or she is desirous of purchasing, and describing the same by reference to the number on the Map and List above referred to. 2. Laud so applied for will be put up at Public Auction, at the upset price specified on the List, not being less than after the rate of Fifty Pounds per acre. 3. Any number of sections comprised in -one block, and named in one application, not exceeding five acres, will be put up to Auction as one lot. 4. In every case of purchase of land not exceeding half an acre, a deposit of Ten per cent, of the purchase money must be paid at the Auction, and the remainder within one week thereafter, at the end of which period if the purchase tie not. completed, the Section will be again immediately put up to Auction and the deposit forfeited. 5. Any quantity of land exceeding half an acre maj r be acquired either by absolute purchase on payment of the purchase money in manner provided by the 4th term of sale, or by lease, the lessee undertaking to purchase the land on the following terms, viz.: —Ten per cent, of the purchase money to be paid at the Auption,—thirty per cent, within three years thereafter, —the remainder on or before the expiration of the lease. The lease to be for a term of years not exceeding Seven, at an annual rent of Seven per cent, on the unpaid portion of the purchase money, and to contain, in addition to those implied under the Conveyancing Ordinance covenants by the lessee for the payment of the purrhase money as above mentioned, power to be reserved to the Lessor to re-enter on breach of any of the Lessee's covenants. 6. The purchaser may obtain his conveyance, or lease, as the case may be, and may be put in possession, on payment of £l. 7. Auctions will be Loid from time to time, at such time and place, and subject to hu^H further Conditions of Sale as the Superintendent may direct, of all which due public notice will be given.- - Joseph Rrittax, Provincial Secretary. Notice to Newly-Arrived Immigrants. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christeiuuch, August 28th, 186.0 "VTOTICK is Hereby Given, that if any -L^ rmmigHints who have »iv(>n Promissory Nule.% in purl payment of assisted passages lo titis Province, ami of winch payment will be required a year after the dateof their landing, are "willing to pay the whole or any part of their engagements before that tiim;, they will be allowed a Discount as follows :— Within ,'J months after huuliuir. 10 per cent. Wiihin 0 months after lauding, J> per cent. Payments to be made to the Provincial Treasurer, (Jhrisiehureh. By His Honor's Command, JOSKIMI BItITTAN, Provincial Secretary