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Provincial Secretary, stating 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 be^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 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 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 purchase 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 "lay be put in possession, on payment of £1. 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 may direct, of all which due public notice will be given. RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary.

NOTICE. THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT will pay the sum of Twenty Pounds for the best Treatise on the subject of destroying the watercresses and other weeds accumulating in the streams and rivers in the neighbourhood of Christchurch. Every Treatise must be sent in to the Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, | before Four o'Clock on the Ist of August, next. That Treatise will be considered the best which explains the most efficient, pracicable and economical mode of getting rid of the Weeds, especially in the Avon and Heathcote Rivers. An additional sum of Fifty Pounds will be paid to the writer, if his plan be adopted by the Government and prove successful. By Order of His Honor the Superintendent, RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, June 26th, 1857. CANTERBURY REGISTER OFFICE. "TVrOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that _L^l the last Instrument left at this office is that registered as No. 977; and that all those numbered up to 955, inclusive, are ready to be given back to the persons who presented them. Landowners, and others interested, are advised to attend to this Notice; as should the Deeds &c., be left here afterwards, great inconvenience may arise. ■ CHRISTOPHER A. CALVERT, Registrar. Christchurch, June 30th, 1857. TO CHURCH PROPERTY TRUSTEES. I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that at the next Quarterly Meeting of the Church Property Trustees, to be held AUGUST FIRST, the following additional by-law will be proposed:— " On any office or agency becoming vacant, the Secretary, shall give notice of such vacancy and invite candidates for such vacant office or agency by advertisement, once a week, for two successive weeks, in each of the newspapers of the province; the names of all candidates to be sent in to the Secretary within seven days after ; the date of the last advertisement. The names of such candidates to be published in the next ensuing number of each of the provincial newspapers, and the election shall be proceeded with as early as convenient, after a lapse of seven days from the publication of such names." W. W. WEDLOCK, Secretary to the Church Property Trustees. Christchurch, 29th June, 1857.'