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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 620, 16 October 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. I "TVTOTICE is hereby given that from JLI and after the Ist day of October j next, the Waste Lands Board will sit at the | Land Officd, at Christchurch, on MONDAY' | and'THURSDAY in each week, at 12 o'clock, | at noon, instead bf on Tuesdays and' Fridays -as heretofore. JOHN OLLIVIER; Provincial Secretary. Pfovinci&l Secretary's-Office, Christcliui'ch, Jan. 20th; 1858: AKAROA. ; FRENCH 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 build-! ings thereon. The area ofthe Reserve is Oa. lr. 12p. or' thereabouts, and the buildings are constructed | of substantial materials;? All tenders must be iiv. writing, addressed, to j the Provincial Secretary, and must'state tLej amount the applicant1 is prepared to give for the! property. If the sum offered in any tender be' deemed sufficient by the Government, the prem-* 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, i 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. i Christchurch, Dec. 21,1857. I

IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. All persons desirous of obtaining assisted passages to the Province of Canterbury in vessels undier contract with the Provincial Government, may receive assistance as follows: — 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 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 i the- passenger dispute the debt, or shall | attempt to leave the Province, paymerit j will only be required in sums of five pounds at a time, at periods 6ft three months, until the whole debt is : discharged. The first1 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 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 Emigratirin Agent, will be received in lieu of cash payment, as hereinafter provided ; the Bill will be re-transmitted by the Agent to the Colony, and must be paid immediately dn presentation. 3. Assisted passages will be afforded only to bond fide labouring men, mechanics, and 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 i single man above the age of 40 years, no person above tlie age of 50, unless a member of a large family; and no person above (SO years, under any circumstances, will be allowed assistance. - . 5. When bills are tendered in payment 1 as cash in England, the amount of assistance ] given by the Government will be one-half ! ofthe amount of Bills. Persons therefore j 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 state what the rate of passage money to the Colony will be fixed ; but all billsi will be prepared on the supposition that it will amount to £20, should it be less, a prbportional 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.