Correspondence.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 457, 21 March 1857, Page 7

Correspondence.

To the Editor bfi/ieXiyttelton Times. ' ■ Slß,^-! beg1 you will publish the enclosed i Circular which. I have just ireeeived' from the j .OtagoWaste Land. Boaud the timely • perusal of this- document may. perhaps save iriany per- , sons, who are thinking of going to the Bluff to | look for runs, a greater loss of time, capital, i and labour; 'than. I have suffered. ; ■■. : ; - ■■.< ■ I am, Sir, ) . Your Obedient Servant,.: 1 PHILIP LLOYD FRANCIS. Christchureh, March 18fh 3 1857., ; '' Circular. '.:'';' ' , V;; .: .'. ""..'/] .''', '■ Waste Land Board Office, Otago, January 14th, 1857. ..-. Sir,-—I have been directed;by the Waste Land • Board to inform you, in connection with-the AppJi- ; cation made by you for a Run at The New River,' dated,2Bth March.4Bs6, that His Honor the Su- ; perintendent has instructed that'for the present,! until -the arrahgenients for carrying into effect the ■ *• Land Sales anil Lease?. Qr.dinangej,,lßs6" liave: been completed, no. Lands shouldiigs.old,or ?t X J i,cens ! es| granted for Runs, on the plains and other low' available Cpuiitry'fromthe Mataiira to and beyond: Jacob's River. ,V; ' ii'-s The Board, has deemed it proper to take this opportunity the earliest afforded, of intimating to you the alteration vvhich has lately been made by the Provincial Council in the Land Regulations of the Province, arid the. instructions issued in connectioii." therewith by His Honor the Superintendent,; pointing out the Country likely to be required for sale under the New Ordinance, and within Hundreds,' in order that you may at once make application for: another Ruti in a position less to its being, required for sale, at least for some time to come, or; taking such^other steps as you may deem necessary, in the matter. , . • ■ I have further to state that the Surveyors are. busily employed in making a Sketch Survey of the; Country, so as to enable the Board to define and mark;off tlie'Hundreds.; and: Districts required for the purpose of the : New,;. Ordinance referred to, in the South, and that the hnal decision in the matter, as to where Runs can and will be granted in that Country will be publicly iutirhated with as little delay as possible after the Surveyors' Maps and Reports are received. ' . r Trusting that this early intimation may enable you without: much inconvenience to ;make. .-such, arrangements as the altered circumstances of the case may require, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most Obedient Servant, . . ' ■ ' P. Proudfoot, ,j, • Chief Commissioner. P. Lloyd FRANcisEsa., ■■ '■■■■'■'■• Canterbury, Port Cooper. - :