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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 343, 13 February 1856, Page 3

SA L £ OF TOWN RESERVES. Provincial Secretary's Oflice, Chiistciiurch, 28th, Nov. 1855. PUBLIC NOTICE. BIS Hi)S"lt TIIK SuJ\KRIN TTF,NIM',?s 7T directs it to be notified for public information, that, the Town Reserves of Christclu'ich are open for -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 Oifiee, Christchnrch, setting1 forth the Sections into which the land will be divided for the purpose of sale, with a list al.Sached. describing1 the number, measurement, contents, and upset price of every Section. 1. Bvery person desirous of purchasing any p~tion of the Town Reserves must make a written application, addressed to the Provincial Secretary, staling the section or sections which 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. Land 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, he not completed, the Section wiil be again immcdiaU ]y put up to Auction and the deposit forfeited. 5. Any quantity of land exceeding half an acre may 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 Auction, —thirty percent, within three years thereafter, —the remainder on or before the expiration of the lease. The lease to be for a teun of years not exceeding Seven, at an annual rent of Seven per cent, on the unpaid portion of the purchase monny, and to contain, in addition to those implied under the Conveyancing Ordinance covenants by the lessee for the payment of the purchase money ns above mentioned, power to be reserved to the Lessor to re-enter on breach of any of the Lessee's covenants. (>. The purchaser may obtain his conveyance, or lease, as the case may be. and "lay be put in possession, on payment of £l. 7. Auctions will be held from time to time, at such time and place, and subject to such further Conditions of Sale as the Superintendent, niiiv direct, of all which due public notice will be given. JoSKTH BniTTAX, Provincial Secretary. Notice to Itfewly-Arrived Immigrants, Provincial Secretary's Ofliee, Ohri.stohuroh, August '2<Sth, \tir>s TVTOTIOE is Hkkkby Oivkx, that if any -*-' I lining Hints wlio have mivcu Promissory Notes in part, payment of assisted passages to this Province, anil of winch payment will be required a year al'lcr the date, of their huuiiuix, are wilting to pay the '\hule or any part <>f their engagements before ; Lit time, they wiil he allowed v Discount as follows : — Within '.) months niter landing, 10 per cent. Within (i months after landing, .; per cent. Payments lo ''»<• made to lite Provincial Treasurer, C'lirislcUiu-ch. By His Honor's Cotyimar.d, .JoSKI'U I)!HTT.\N, Provincial Secretary.