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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 491, 18 July 1857, Page 5

DRAMATIC BEADING. LYTTELTON COLONISTS SOCIETY. MR. A. T. BRADWELL will read portions of Shakesp^re's Tragedy of MACBETH, " " in the Town Hall, on TUESDAY Evening next, the 21st July, at 7 o'clock. Members admitted free; Strangers on payment of sixpence each. A. J. ALPORT, President. WANTED, A PLOUGHMAN, and General Farm Servant. A married man without family preferred. Apply to MR. JOHN BESWICK, Kaiapoi. THE Superintendent, who is shortly about to proceed to England as Emigration Agent for the Province, will be glad to see any persons desirous of communicating with their friends N for the purpose of assisting them to emigrate, on WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, from eleven o'clock till one. Superintendent's Office, Christchurch, July 13th, 1857. HIS HONOR the Superintendent -directs it to be notified that, with the advice of the Executive Council, he has cancelled the Immigration Regulations published in the Gazette ■of the 2nd of March, 1854, and has adopted the following in the place thereof, and further directs them to be published for general information. By his Honor's command, ' RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office. Christchurch, Jnly 13th, 1857. IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. All persons desirous of obtaining assisted passages to the Province of Canterbury in vessels under contract with the Provincial Government, may receive assistance as follows: — 1. The Government will afford assistance equal in amount to the sum paid in cash by the passenger. If there shall be any balance, the Government will advance the sum, taking 'from the passenger promissory notes for the amount advanced, payable to the Treasurer of the Province. Such notes will be made payable on demand, but, unless the passenger dispute the debt, or shall attempt to leave the Province, payment will only be required in sums of five pounds at a time, at periods of three months, until the whole debt is discharged. The first payment to be made six months after landing. 2. Any persons resident in the Province desirous of assisting their friends in England, or elsewhere, to obtain assisted passages to the Colony may do so by drawing a Bill to the order of the Provincial Treasurer, accepted.by a substantial householder, also resident in the Province, to be approved of by the Superintendent as sufficient security to the same ; this Bill may then be transmitted to the person who is desirous of emigrating to the Colony, and, being by him presented to the Emigration Agent, will be received in lieu of cash payment, as hereinafter provided; the Bill will be re-transmitted by the Agent to the Colony, and must be paid immediately on presentation. 3. Assisted passages will be afforded only to honafide labouring men, mechanics, and female domestic servants; but persons of all classes will be able to assist their friends to emigrate to the Colony by undertaking the payment of the whole of the passage money in the manner above provided. 4. No person will be allowed any assist- | ance unless he shall have been approved of jby the Emigration Agent in England. No I single man above the age of 40 years, no I person above the age of 50, unless a member of a large-family; and no person above 60 years, under any circumstances, will be allowed assistance. 5. When bills are tendered in payment as cash in England, the amount of assistance given by the Government will be one-half of the amount of Bills. Persons therefore wishing to give their friends in England the utmost amount of assistance must give bills for two-thirds of the whole amount of the passage money. 6. The Provincial Government are unable at present to state what the rate of passage money to the Colony will be fixed ; but all bills will be prepared on the supposition that it will amount to £15, should it be less, a proportional part of the bills will be remitted at the time of re-payment. 7. Applications for. assisted passages will be received at the Secretary's-Office, in Christchurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton.