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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 637, 15 December 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. ■"VTOTICE is hereby given thnt from J_N mid after the Ist day of October next, the Waste Lands Board will s,i£ at the Land Office, at Christchurch,, on ' MONDAY and THURSDAY in each week; at 12 o'clock, at noon, instead of on Tuesdays and Fridays as1 heretofore. JOHN OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary.Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Jan. 20th, 1858. AKAROA. FRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. riIHE Provincial Government ore preJL pared to" receive Tenders for the purposee of " The French Magazine, Reserve," situate in Lhvand Street*,' Akaroa, and tlto buildings thereon. ■ • ' The area of the 'Reserve ,is ;Qa. lr. 12p. or thereabouts, and the buildings are constructed of substantial materials. All tenders must be in writingy 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 bo 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 Spcretary's Olfice, 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 lo .the Province of Canterbury in , "vessels under contract with the Provincial ' Government, may receive' assistance as ' i follows: — | L 1. The.Government will afforc? assistance tlequal in amount to the-eum paid Wcdsh by i the passenger. ,-IFv-tßere'"---'shall be any rfialftnce, the jGovernbielH'wtH advance the' ;eiim{: taking v f fr6m the passengerl promissory. ; notes*' for the' amount advanced, payable to "the Treasurer of' the"Province. . Such notes | will be mad^ c pa\'ab!e on demand, but; unless .the passengapdispuTteVthe 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- ; pages to the Colon}' 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 l>y the Superintendent as suffil cient security to the same ; ibis Bill may then t>3 transmitted to the person who is d« sirous of emigrating to the Colony, and, ■ being .by him presented to the Immigration ! Agent, will be received in lieu of cash pay- j rnent, as hereinafter provided; the Bill will be rp.-transmitled by the Agent to the Colony, and must be paid immediately on , r presentation, 3. Assisted passages'wiil be afforded only to bond fide 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 allowed any assistance unless he shall have been approved of by the Emigration Agent in England. No single man above the ajre of 40 years, no person above the'age of* 50, uulfssU member of a large family;- and no person above 60 years, under any circumstances,, will be allowed assistance. 5 When bills are tendered inpayment 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 give their friends in England the utmost amount of assistance must tcive bills for two-thirds of the whole amuiint of the passage money. 6. The Provincial Government are unable at present to Male what the rale 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 partof the bills will be remitted at the time of re-payment. 7. Applications for assisted passages will be ( received at the Secretary's Office, in Christchnrch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in LyHelton.