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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 614, 25 September 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. "VTOTICE is hereby given that from X i and after the Ist day of October next, the Waste Lands Board will sit at the Land Office, at Christchurch, 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. • FRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. THE Provincial Government are prepared to receive Tenders for thepurposee of "The French Magazine Reserve,": situate in Lavand Street, Akaroa, and the build-j ings thereon. j The area of the Reserve is Oa. lr. 12p. or; thereabouts, and the buildings are constructed; of substantial materials. j All tenders must be in writing, addressed to the Provincial Secretary, and must state theamount the applicant is prepared to give for the property. If the sum offered in any tender be deemed sufficient by the Government, the prem-j ises will be put up to auction, pursuant to the! 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. Christcliurch, Dec. 21,1857. IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. All persons desirous of obtaining assisted passages lo the Province of Canterbury in vessels under contract with the Provincial Government, may receive assistance as follows: — 1. The Government will afford assistance equal in amount to the sum paid m cash by 'the passenger. If there shall be balance; the Government 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, payhTent 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 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 tlie Superintendent as sum-, cient security to the same ; this Bill maythen be transmitted to the person who is j desirous of emigrating to the Colony, and, j being-by him presented to the Emigration Agent, will be received in lieu of cash payment, as hereinafter provided ; the Bill will j be re-transmitted by the Agent to the j Colony, and must be paid immediately oh presentation. ; 3. Assisted passages will be afforded only to bonafide labouring men, mechanics, and 1 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 England. No '■ single rman'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 j as cash in England, the amount of assistance given by the Government will be one-half' 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 unable at present to stale 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 be less, a proportional part of the bills will j be remitted at the time of re-payment. ! 7. ApplicaUo/jfl for assisted passages will be received at the Secretary's Office, in Übristchurcli, and at, the- ltusulent Magistrate^ Office, in 7-iyM.elton.