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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 596, 21 July 1858, Page 6

• % NOTICE. "TVTOTICE is hereby'given that froia. J_i and after the Ist day of October next, tlie Waste Lands Board'will git at the LahoVOffice, at Christchurch, -on- MONDAY and THURSDAY in eacli week,, at 12 b'cloc c," at nopn, instead of on Tuesdays and Fridays as heretofore. , , ' JOHN OLLIVIER, | . '■"' "' Provincial Secretary.! Provincial Secretary's Office, • Christchurch, Jan. 20th, 1858.' AKAROA. , ! FRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. I . riIHE Provincial Government are pre JL pared to receive Tenders for, the purposee of "The French Magazine Reserve,"situate in Lavaud Street, Akaroa, and the buildings thereon. The _ area of the Reserve'is Oa. lr. I2p.|or thereabouts, and the buildings arc constructed' of substantial materials. ' , ■' All tenders must be in- writing, ja'ddressedf 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 to1 auction, pursuant to flic Ordinance. , . > Two months notice of the time and place of sale will be given. By order of his Honor the Superintendent, J, OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Dec. 22nd, 1857. ; 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 follows: — 1. The Government will affoic 3 assistance equal in amount to the sum paid m cash by the passenger. If there shall be any, balance, the Government will advance ;the sum, taking from the passenger promissorynotes for the amount advanced, payable to the Treasurer of the Province. , Such notes will-be made payable on demand, but, unless the-;passer>ger dispute the debt, or shall attempt to leave the Province, payment will 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 pas--sages 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 whp is I d( sirous of 'emigrating to the Colony, and,!) being by'him presented to the Emigration Agent,.will be received in lieu, qf r cash pay- : ment,,as,,hereinafter,provided ; the Bill; will ! be, re-transmitted by the Agent to : the j Colony, and must be paid immediately on j presentation.- - . '„•. , ; ■■■ ;: \ j I 3. Assisted'passages will be afforded !only ! |to bondjide labouring men, mechanics,; and | female domestic servants; but person's 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 aboye provided, \ . ;,;, 4. No person will U Wjwed any assistance unless he shall hay oeeri approved of : by the Emigration Agent in England. \ Nq '; single man above the age of 4Q years, inoperson above the age of 50, unless a member of a large family; and no person abovja 60.... years, under any circumstances, will' -be allowed assistance. ; j 5. When bills are tendered in payment !• as cash in England; tlie amojirit of assistance I given by the Government'will be one-half j of the amount,;of Bills. Persons therefore 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; un- . able at present to state what the rate of passage money to the Colony will be fixed; but all bills will be prepared on the suppo r , sition that it will amount to £20, should, lit be less, a proportional part of the bills will be remitted at the time of re-payment. ';. 7. Applications for assisted passages will be received at the Secretary's Office,- in Christchurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton. \ ■