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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 630, 20 November 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that from and after the Ist day of October next, the Waste Lands Board will sit at the Land Office, at Christchurch, on MONDAI and THURSDAY in each week, at 12 o'clock, at noon, instead of on Tuesdays arid Fridays as heretofore. JQHN OLL i VIER> > Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, j Christchurch, Jan. 2Otb, 1858. AKAROA. FRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. j THE Provincial Government are pre- , pared 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 j of substantial materials. i All tenders must be in writing, addressed toi the Provincial Secretary, and must state the;amount the applicant is prepared to give for the j 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 following1 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. AU 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. 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 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, 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 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 I approved of by the Superintendent as suffi-cient-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 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 honafide 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 tlie payment of the whole of the passage money in the tnnnner above provided 4. No person will be allowed any assis*. ance unless he shall have been approved of by the Emigration Agent in England. No single man .above the age of 40 years, no person above theageof 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 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 five their frierids in England the utmost amount of assistance must irive bills for, 't-wb-tliirds of the whole''amount of the passage money. 6. The Provincial Government are unable at. present to stae what the rate of pass-asri* money to the Colony will be.' fixed; bill all I.ills will be pii-p;tre<l on tile suppo sitiou thai it wiil ■Hiiouiit to £20. nhoul<l ii b»; less, a propo-tionnl part of «h« bills will b<- irniiifivi jii the time of n>-pnym»Mil. • 7. A j)t)lic;itiona for assisted passau[eH will l>« received ai the Secretary'h Office, in Christclmrch, and at, the Resident Magin- „ trate's Oillce, in Lyttelton.