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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 635, 8 December 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. "JVjTOTICE is hereby given that from JL l and after the Ist day of October next, the "Waste Lands Board will sit at the Land Office, at Cluistchuroh, on MONDAY and THURSDAY in each tvoek, at 12 o'clock, at noon, instead df on Tuesdays and Fridays! ad heretofore. £OHN OLtitVIER, Proviucial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, ../.....■ Christcharcli, Jan. 2Oth^ 186 S. AKAROA. FRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. /TIHE Provincial Government are pre!X. pared to receive Tenders for the purposee of " The French Magazine Reserve," i 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. All tenders must be in 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 placa of sale will be given. By order of his Honor the Superintendent, J. OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Dec. 22nd, l&ot. HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the following1 Immigration Regulations to be priblished 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" elf 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 m cash by the passenger. If there shall be any balance, the Government will advance the sum, taking from the passenger promissory , riofes 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 j landing. . ! 2. Any persons resident in the Province j 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 iti (lie Province, to be approved of by the Superintendent as (Mifficieut security to the snme ; this Bill may then he 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 drily !to bondjide 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 abo^e provided- -... ■ f 4. No person will I»e allowed any assistance unless he shall have b;;en-approved of by the Emigration Agent in England. No single man *«bove the age of 40 years, no person above the.age of 50, unless a member of a large family ; and no person above 60 years, under any circuiiiStances, will be allowed assistance. 5. When bills are tendered in payment as cash in England, the amount of assistance given by tiie 'Government'.will'be one-half of the amount of Bills. Persons therefore '.wishing to giVe,their friends in England '.lie utmost amount of assistance must uive bills for two-thirds of tire whole amount of the passage money; 6. The Provincial ■■'Government are unable at present to stale whnt the rate of passage money to tiie Colony will be fixed; but all bills will be prepared on the supposition that it will amount to £20. should it be lean, a.proportional part of the bills will be remitted nt the time of re-pnynißnt. 7. Application^! for assisted passaiir'PH will bo received at the Secretary's Office, in Christcliurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton.