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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 625, 3 November 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. "TVTOTTCE is hereby given that from JLN and after the Ist day of October next, the Waste Lands Board will sit at the Land Office, at. Christchnr'ch, 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,: , , t Christchurch, Jmi.-2btlv 1858. ; ! AKAROA. . FRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. THE Provincial Government are prepared to receive Tenders for the purposee of "The French ..Magazine Reserve, 1' situate in Lavand Street, Akaroa, and the buildings thereon. i■ 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 the amount the applicant is prepared $6. give for thq property. If the sum offered in any; tender bq deemed sufficient by the Government, the premises will be put up to auction, pursuant to the Ordinance. : , i Two months notice-of-the time and place of sale will be given. - ; i By order of his Honor the' Superintendent, | J. OLLIVIER, ! Provincial Secretary. ! Provincial Secretary's Office, r 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. Christchurcb, Dec. 21,1857. IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. Ail 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 affort? assistance equal in amount to ihe 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, paj'able 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 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 Engiand, 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 d(sirous of emigrating to. the Colony, and, being by him presented to the Emigration Agent, will be received in lieu of cash pay r inen't, as hereinafter provided ; the Bill will be. re-transmitted by the Agent to the i Colony, and must be paid immediately on ! presentation. x i 3. Assisted passages will be afforded only { to honafide labouring men, mechanics, and female dorhestic 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 i 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 man above the age of 4C) years, no person above the age of 50. iinleßs 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 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 >he utmost amount of assistance must give bills for two-thirds of the whole amount of the passage money. The Provincial Government fire unable at present to state what the rate of pa^age money to the Colony will be fixed; ■but.aM billH will be prepared on th., supposition that rt.wiU amount to £20, 'should it De less, a proportional part of the tills will be remitted at the time of re-paymunt. /. Applications for assisted passages will be rec«.v«u at the Secretary* Office, in UmstcWch and at the Jteoident MagisL trate s Office, in Lyttelton. b