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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 504, 2 September 1857, Page 2

HIS HONOR the Superintendent, having received information from the Post-master General of Victoria that the English Mails for. Canterbury,are made.up • in; London, together with the Wellington mails, and are not opened: at Melbourne, directs it,to be notified that the notice,dated June 30th, offering a bonus to vessels for bringing down the mails from Melbourne to Port Victoria, is hereby cancelled : and that the Provincial Government has entered into a joint engagement with the Provincial Government of Wellington, whereby the mails of Canterbury will be brought to Wellington and immediately transmitted thence, in the same vessel, to' Port Victoria, the vessels bringing the mails remaining in harbour forty-eight hours for the return mail. By his Honor's command, R. PACKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, ! Christchurch, 30th July, 1857. SALE OF TOWN RESERVES. PUBLIC NOTICE. HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified for, public information, that the Town Reserves of Christchurch 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 Office, Christchurch, setting forth 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 potion of the Town Reserves must make a written application, addressed to the 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 J 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, powei 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 vaay be put in possession, on payment of £1. 7. Auctions will be held from time to time, at such time and place, and subject tosuch further Conditions of Sale as the Superintendent may direct, of all which due public notice will he given. RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. ■ Provincial Secretary's Office, I Christchurch, 10th Feb., 1857. CHELTENHAM. HOUSE, X A I A P O I. E HAMLET begs to inform his friends • and the public generally^ that his House is now ready; and parties wishing for .accommodation will have every care and attention,to make them comfortable; \ Room for a few young men as boarders. ! N.B. Good Stablingi ' TOWN SECTIONS IN KAIAPOI TO LET. FOUR Town.Sections Hiithe.best part of the town of Kaiappi, to be Let on i Lease or by the year. I Apply to JAMES WYLDE, } .' ' Kaiapoi. ! ' BOOKBINDING,. ORDEPtS for all work of this description will now be taken for immediate execution, at the office of the Lyttelton Times.