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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 626, 6 November 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. i "IyfOTICE is hereby given that from i X.\ and after the Ist day of October next, the Waste Lands Board will sit at tho 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 buildings thereon. ! The area of the Reserve is oa. lr. 12p. or thereabouts, and the buildings are constructed of substantial materials. All tenders must be in writing, addressed to the Provincial Secretavy, and must state the amount the applicant is prepared to give for theproperty. 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. " 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 afford assistance equal in amount to the sum paid in cask 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 dn 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 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 who" is desirous of emigrating to the Colony, and, bfcing by him presented to the Emigration 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 on 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 ahle to assist their friends to emigrate to the Colony by undertaking the -payment of the , whola-of the-passage money in the manner above provided. 4. No person will Be allowed any assistance unless he Bhall have been approved; of by the Emigration Agent in England. 'No single nrinn above the ■ atre of 40 years, no _ person above the age of 50, unless a member of a-large family-j^and no pei'soii above 60 years, under any eircursi'ssUuicesj will be allowed assistance. ; ! ' I -5. "When bills are tendered in payment as cash irvEnglaiid, the amount of assisiiuice given by the Government'will.Be" one-hall" of the amount, of 1 Bills. Person* '.therefore .wishing to give their friends in Eiiiilnrul 'lie 5 utmost amount of/assistance must, uive bills * for two-thirds of the whole amount of the 1 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 bills will be prepared on the supped ■ sition that it will amount to £20; should it be lesß, a proportional part of the bills will • be remitted at the time of re-payment. f } 7. Applications for assisted passages will i be received at the Secretary's' Office, ,in! I Christchurch/and at the Resident Magis-' trate's Office,in Lyttelton.