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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 628, 13 November 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. ~\T*OTICE is hereby given that from j IX and after the Ist day of October next, the Waste Lands Board will sit at Mie Land OiHoe, at Christchurch. on MONDAY and THURSDAY in each week, at 12.o'clock, at noon, instead of on Tuesdays and Fridays i as heretofore. - 1 JOHN OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. ,-. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Jan. 20th; 1858. AKAROA. FRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. fTTHE Provincial Government are preI pared to receive Tenders for the purposee of "The-French Magazine Reserve," situate in Lavand Street, Akaroa, and the,build T ings 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 Secretary, arid must state th 6 amount the applicant is prepared to give for the property. If- the sum • oileredjiv 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. OLLrVIER, 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 affon? 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 amourt 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 lea% Te the Province, payment •will only be required'in sums of five pounds at-a time, at periods of three mouths;, until the whole, debt is discharged. ;Tlie- 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 the Superintendent as sufficient security to the same ; ihi# Bill may then, bs transmitted to the person who is desirous of emigrating to the Colony, and, being 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 outy to hondfide 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 allowed1 any assistance unless he shall have been approved of by the Emigration Agent in England.,' No single man -above the ajj-e. of 40 .years, no person above the age of 50, unlessatnember 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 giv«ii by the Government will be one-half of (lie amount of Bills. . Persons therefore wishing to give, their friends in England the utmost amount of assistance mustgive bills for two-thirds of the whole amount of the passage money. 6. The Provincial Government are tin? 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 supposition that it will amount to £20, should it. be less, a proportional part of the bills will be remitted at-th«« time of repayment. 7. Applications for assisted passages will be received at the Secretary's Office, in ChriHtchurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's OiHee, in Lyttelton.