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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 573, 1 May 1858, Page 7

NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that from and after the Ist day of October ; next, the Waste Lands Board will sit at the Land Office, at Chrktehurch, on MONDAY and THURSDAY in each week, at 12 o'clock, at noon, instead of on Tuesdays and Fridays as heretofore. JOHN OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Jan. 20th, 1858. AKAROA. IRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. THE Provincial Government are prepared to receive Tenders for the purposee of " The French Magazine Reserve," situate in Lavand Street, Akaroa, and the buildings thereon. . The area of the Reserve is Oa. Ir. 12p. or thereabouts, and the buildings are constructed of substantial materials. All tenders roust be in writing, addressed to the Provincial Secretary, and must state the amount the applicant is prepared to give for the property. If the sum offered in any tender be deemed sufficient by the Government, the premises will be put up to auction, pursuant to the Ordinance. ''„,,.- i i c ' Two months notice of the time and place ot sale will be given, ■ _■ _ ; ■■ By order of his Honor the Superintendent, J. OLLIVIER, j Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Dec. 22nd, 1807. HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the following Immigration, Regulations to be published for general information. By his Honor's command, JOHN OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office. Christchurch, Dec. 21,1857. 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 1 follows: — . _ i 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 x 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 suras 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. . , t> • 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 bouseholder, 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 Agent, will be received in lieu of cash paj - ment, as hereinafter provided; the Bill mil be re-transmitted by the Agent to the Colony, and must be paid immediately on ! F 3 GlA^d passases will be afforded only ! to bond fide labouring men, mechanics, andh female domestic servants; but persons of all classes will be able to assist their friends to emirate to the Colony by undertaking heTayment 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 by the Emigration Agent in England. Iso , iXml* above the age of 40 years, no above theageof 50, -less a member , of a large family ; and no person above 60 years, under any circumstances, will be , an owed a-istance. , as cU in England, the amount ot assistance , as casn > rnme nt will be one-half j gl ven by tl c v p therefore in England the tmo t°amo°untof assistance must give bills for two-thirds of the whole amount of the passage money ;inc . ai Government are v be less, a proportional part of the-bills wHI be remitted at the time of re-payment. 7 Applications for assisted passages will be received at the Secretary s Otface, in J'lristchirch, and at the Residerit Magist rate's Office, in Lyttelton.