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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 559, 13 March 1858, Page 7

PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON. NOTICE. TO IMMIGRANTS. mHE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT t -l_ of Wellington will, in pursuance of the Resolution of the Provincial Council, be prepared to convey to each immigrant, (introduced under their Regulations) as soon as he [ shall have redeemed his Promissory Note or Notes, a quantity of land equal in value (at the rate of 10s. an acre) to one fourth of the amount of his Passage Money. For example : every immigrant on redemption of his Promissory Note or Notes, will be entitled to receive ten acres, of land for every Twenty Pounds he he shall have paid on account of the Passage of himself and family. These grants of land will either be made out of blocks specially reserved for Immigration purposes in Small Farm or Agricultural Settle- , ments, or in the immediate vicinity of Roads in - process ofs construction; or the Immigrant may select the quantity to which he shall be declared ■ entitled out of any lands open to purchase as , Rural, In order to facilitate the . location of Immigrants desirous of immediately settling upon land and of being employed on the Public Wotks, Reserves will be made wherever practicable, along or near each line of road, and will be laid off in Ten-acre Sections, which the . Immigrants will be permitted at once to occupy, receiving a conveyance of the same as soon as "they shall have paid the whole of their Passage Money. Parties desirous of availing, themselves of this privilege in the block afc present being surveyed in the Grey Town Settlement^ are requested to make immediate application to the undersigned, who will give further information that may be required. , . J. G. HOLDSWORTH, Registrar of Immigration. Registry Office, August 10th, 1857. PUBLIC NOTICE. HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified for public information that the upset price- of the Eastern and Southern portions of the Christchurch Town Reserves, will, from and after the date hereof, be Fifty-Two. Pounds, sterling per acre, the additional two pounds per acre being required to provide a fund for the effectual draining of that portion of the Estate. JOHN OLLIVIER, • Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, 21st Dec, 1857. SALE OP TOWN RESERVES. PUBLIC NOTICE. HIS HONOR THE SUPBRINTENDENT,direcfeit to-be notified for public information, that the Town Reserves of Christchurch jire open for Sale on the following terms; and that a map signed by the Provincial Engineer ."maybe, 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, measureI ment,-contents, and upset price of every Section. .I.'-Every,person desirous of purchasing any portion of the Town Reserves must make a written .application, addressed to the Provincial. Secretary, stating the section or sections which he oi' 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. ; ' ; .2- 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 i 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 fora .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 the breach of any of the Lessee's covenants. . 6. The purchaser may obtain his conveyance, or lease, as the case may be, and may 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 gIVeU" JOHN OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Dec. 21, 1857.