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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 633, 1 December 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. "TVTOTICE is hereby given that from lN and after the Ist day of October next, the Waste Lands Board will sit at the Land Office, at Christchurch, on MONDAY and THURSDAY in each week, at 12 o'clock, at noon, instead of on tde«d*ys «.nd Fridays theretofore. ", ' .fcHN OLttVlfiß. " Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, ein'istohurch, Jim. 20th, 1858. AKAItOA.. . FRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. THE Provincial Government are prepared to receive Tenders for the purposee of "The French,. ..Magazine Reserve," sitiiatefin Lavand Street, Akaroa, andtlftrbmld-j hi<rs thereon. , ' 1 ; The area of the Reserve is oa. lr. 12p. or; thereabouts, and the buildings artf constructed' of substantial materials. J AH tenders must be inf writing, addressed to the Provincial Secretary, and must state the | amount the applicant is prepared to give for the property. 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 bef given. By order of hts Horiof the Superintendent, J. O^LIVIER, Provinwal Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, ; Christchurch, Dec. 22nd, 1857. HIS Honor flic Superintendent directs the following. Immigration Regulations to be published for general information. By his Honor's command, JOHN OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary V Office; Christchurch, Dec.*21,1857V :| IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. All persons desirous of "-obtaining; assisted passages to the Province of Canterbury in vessel* under contract with the. Piovincisil 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 'sunn taking from the passenger promissory notes for th»* artiouvt 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 fi»>t payment to be made six mouths after landing. 2. Any persons resident in the Province desirous of assisting their friends in Kugland. or elsewhere, to obtain assisted pus sages to the Colony may do so by drawing a Bill to the order of the Provincial Treasurer, accented by a substantial householder, also resident in the Province, to be approved of by the-'^upermfeiidenf as sufficient security to the same ; this Bill may then betransmitted to the person who is desirous of emigrating to the Colony, and, being by him presented to the Immigration Agent, will lie received, iii lieii of cash payment, as hereinafter provided; the Bill will tie 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 t-ervanis; but p»T>o'ns of all classes will be atle.lo.. uWisl their fiends to emigrate to the Colony by undertaking the payment of the whole of Ihe passage money in the manner above provided. 4. No person will he allowed aiiy assistance unless he shall have been approved of by the {''.migration A«ent <n'"Kujflsmd. No sinirle niiin sibove- rlie nao of 40 years, no pei>on abn\e tlienge of 50*.'unless si member of a lar^e fiimilj ; and io person above 60 years, under any circumstances, will be allowed assistance. 5 When bills are tendered in payment as.cash in JSugln'ud. the'a'mctiiit of assistance, given by'the' Governnieut will be . one-hall| of the amount.'of Bills. Persons therefore wishing to give their Iriendw in England 'he utinpst amount .of assistance must uiy« bills for two-thirda of the whole amount of the* passage moiiey. ,P< The Provincial Government are unable at'present to. staio what the rate of paspaire money to the Colony will be. fixed;; hm all hills will be prepared on the suppoKition that it will amount to £20, should it be less, a proportional part of the bills will) be remitted at the time of re-payment. 7. Applications for afisinted passages will be received at thu Sucrelary's OUice, in Christchurch, and at the Iteaident Magißtrate's Oinco, in Lyttellon.