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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 567, 10 April 1858, Page 5

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 tKe effectual draining of that portion of the Estate. JOHN OLLIVIER, ; % Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, 21st Dec, 1857. | SALE OF TOWN RESERVES. i 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 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 portion 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 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 percent. 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 exceedirijg half an acre maybe acquired.either.Hylab-solufepurchase 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 oA 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 percent, on the unpaid portion of the purchase, money, and to contain, in addition to those ijnplied under the Conveyancing Ordinance, covenants.by the lessee for the payment of the purchase money as abovementioned, power to he reserved to the lessor to re-enter on the breach of any of the lessee's covenants. , 6. The purchaser may obtain his conveyance, qr lease, as the case may be, and may be put in possession, on payment of £1. ' Auctions will be held from time to time, at such time and place, and subject to such further condition^ of sale as the Superintendent may direct, of-.^Jl which due public notice will be given. - ° JOHN OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch,J)ec. 21, 1857. "LYTTELTON COLONISTS' SOCIETY ; AND LITERARY INSTITUTION. GN TUESDAY EVENING NEXT, APRIL 13th, MR. HENRY YOUNGER will read DICKENS'S " CHRISTMAS CAROL." Chair to.be taken at ' ■■- , Hon. Secretary. WANTED A Young' man conversant with soft goods generally, a good penman and accountant,, and willing to make himself o-enerallv useful in a store. Salary at the rate of £100 per annum for the Ist six months. None need apply except those who are qualified as above. • _ { Address in own hand writing to J. M., Lyttelton Times' Office. " TO BE LET OR SOLD. THE House and Garden now in the occupation of Mr. A. Swanson, situated | in Oxford Street, Lyttelton. For terms, apply to F H. J. Le CREN, . Lyttelton. SHEEP FOR SALE. SEVERAL small lots of valuable well bred and clean sheep for sale. Apply to JOHN T. PARKINSON: -