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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 527, 21 November 1857, Page 2

NO T I C E. MRS. CARD begs to announce that, having taken the House and premises lately known as the "Lyttelton Arms," she is prepared to accomodate a liniited number of gentlemen with Board, and Lodging. Norwich Quay, Lyttelton, Oct. 23,1857. TO THE PUBLIC OF CANTERBURY. HW. DERRY beg-s.to inform them • jthat he. has just received, ex Gazelle, an assortment of Bell Fittings, and is now • prepared to execute all orders in that branch of his business. All orders, from the country will receive prompt attention. London street, Lyttelton, Oct. 22nd, 1857. FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, j 1 Very Superior PIANO j 1 handsome Silver Tea Service i 1 doz. each Silver Table, Dessert, and Tea' Spoons, ■ and 1 Fish Slice • . , ! "Plated Soup Ladle, Gravy Spoon, Butter; Knife, and Sugar Sifter ! 1 Shower Bath 1 Colt (by Shamrock) -1 Set Tandem Harness 1 Iron Slove "; For price and particulars apply, to ......:; GOULD and MILES. 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 j be published for. general information. By his r.Honor's command, RICHARD PACKER, a '-'.' Provincial Secretary. ProvinciaVSkcretary's Office. ChristclO'tifc Jnlj 13th, 1857. IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. All perPpns-desirous of obtaining assisted passages 2j the Province of Canterbury in vessels u'.j| *er contract with the Provincial Government, may receive assistance as follows :-—i|(' 1. T"het*overnment will afford assistance equal in ajjliount to the sum paid in cash by the passenger. If there shall be any balance, therGovernment 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 wiU'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 retransmitted by. the • Agent to the Colony, and must be paid immediately on presentation. 3. Assisted passages ■will be afforded only to hondjide 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 assistance unless he shall have been approved of . by the Emigration Agent in No single man above the' age of 40 years', no ; 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 T half of the amount of Bills. Persons therefore I 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 £20, should it jbe less, a proportional part of the bills will be remitted at the time of, re-payment. 7. Applications for assisted passages will jbe received at the Secretary's Office, in Christchurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton: "