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Otago Daily Times, Issue 181, 14 June 1862, Page 7

LOOSB LETTERS. All letters received from beyond seas,at any Post Oflica in this Colony, which have not been regularly posted at the place of despatch (loose letters), are chargeable with full postage, according to the rates established by the foregoing tables, unless they are letters which it is not compulsory by law to send by post, in which case they arc chargeable with the inland rate of postage only. ■INSUFFICIENT PATMENT. . Letters nnd packets liable to more than one rate of postage, and addressed to places within the Colony, or to the United Kingdom, it bearing at least a single rate, will be forwarded and charged with the postage deficient, and another single rate as a fine. Letters and packets so addressed, and bearing less than a single rate of postage, and all letters aud packets otherwise addressed, not bearing the full postage chargeable, will be detained and returned to the sender in all cases where practicable. Newspapers, if posted without prepayment of the full amount of postage chargeable, can neither be forwarded to their destination nor returned to the sender; but will be delivered or forwarded to the person addressed, on application, within six months, at the office where sarac were postal, and payment of the deficient postage in stamps. REGISTRATION. Any person can have a letter registered by affixing on it by means of the proper labels the amount of the registration fee, in addition to the proper postage, and presenting it at a Post Office during office hours, and at least one hour before the closing of the mail by which it is desired to be transmitted. Every precaution will be adopted to ensure the safe delivery of a registered letter, by entering it on the letter bills, nnd obtaining areceipt forthestune on delivery. As the Post Office, however is not responsible for the loss of any letter, whether registered or otherwise, persons sending bank notc3 or drafts are advised to take the numbers and particulars, nnd to cut the notes or drafts in halves, and to send them by different posts. RE-DIRECTION. Letters, newspapers, and packets will be re-directed from one Post Office to another on the written instructions of the person addressed, but on re-direction are chargeable with a new and distinct rate of postage, to be paid on delivery. PENALTIES. ' Any person sending as exempt from postage letters not liable to exemption, or enclosing a communication in the nature of a letter in any newspaper or book-packet, it liable to a penalty of £20. SIZE AND WEIGHT. I No book-packet or packet of newspapers will be received, nor will any Postmaster bo required to receive any letter if it exceed two feet in length, one foot in width or "depth, or three pounds in weight. , BOOK-PACKETS TO BE OPEN FOR INSPECTION. Every book-packet shall be sent open at the ends or sides, mid there shall bo no enclosure sealed or otherwise closed against inspection sent in or with such packet, nor any thing printed or written iv the nature of a letter. CONTENTS. With the above limitations, a packet-book may contain any number of separate books, maps, prints, or photographs, and any quantity of paper, vellum, or parchment, cither printed, written on, or plain, (exclusive of anything in the nature of a letter whether staled or open,) with the binding, covering, or mounting attached or belonging to such book, print, map, or photograph, and all things legitimately appertaining1 to or necessary for the transmission of any enclosed literary or artistic mutter, but exclusive of glass in any form. The names and address of the sender may appear on the cover. , OVERLAND CARRIAGE. No Postmaster will be required to receive any book-packet for transmission by an overland mail, it from its weight or any other cause the packet appear calculated to retard the carrier. CROSBIE WARD, Posl master-General.

REGULATIONS FOR THB DISPOSAL, SALE, LETTINC- AND OCCUPATION OP THB * WASTE LANDS OE THB CROWF IN THB PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY: AS AMENDED.

1. A TX Regulations now in force in the Proix vince of Canterbury for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the Crown are hereby repealed.

2. All such Waste Lands shall, from and after the day on which these Regulations shall come into force, be sold, let, disposed of, and occupied according- to these' Regulations, and'not otherwise. 3. Every Act wliich the Superintendent is hereby authorised or required to perform he shall perform solely in accordance with the advice of his Executive Council for the time being, and such advice shall be' recorded on the minutes of the Council. II. —THE WASTE LANDS BOARD. 4. There shall be established a Board to be called the Waste Lunds Board, to consist, of one Chief Commissioner, and of not less than two nor more than five other Commissioners, all of whom (except such one as shall be appointed to act as Treasurer) shall be appointed and be removable by wan-ant under the hand of the Superintendent.

0. One member of the Waste Lands Board shall also he the Treasurer thereof, and such member shall be appointed and removable by the Governor. 6. The Waste Lands Board shall sit at the principal Land Office of the Province, at certain stated times to be determined by the Superintendent, and shall also sit for special purposes at such places and at such times as the Superintendent shall direct; of which sittings due notice shall be given in the Provincial Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers published in the Province. 7. The Chief Commissioner when present, and in his absence then some member selected by those present at. any meeting of the Board, shall preside thereat,, and shall have a casting vote in nil questions comine: before the Board.

8. All questions coming before the Board shall be decided by a majority of the Commissioners present thereat.

9. All meetings of the Board shall be attended by at least thrca Commissioners, and shall be open to the public. 10. All applications for Land and for Pasturage and for Timber Licenses shall, after hearing evidence when necessary, be determined by the Board at some sitting thereof. 11. The Board shall have power to hear and determine all disputes between the holders of Pasturaee and Titnber Licenses respecting the boundaries oi' runs and districts, and shall have and exercise all the powers which may be lawfully had and exercised by any Commissioner of Crown Lands, under the provisions of the " Crown Lands Ordinance, Scss. X., No. 1;" nnd the " Crown Lands Extension Ordinance, Sess. XI., No. 10."

12. All the routine business of the Land Department shall be transacted by the Chief Commissioner, subject to such regulations as may be mads bj' the Board in that behalf.

13. A book to be called the " Application Book" shall be kept open during office hours at the-Land Office, in which the name of every pereon desiring to make any application to the Board shall be written in order by himself or any person duly authorised on his behalf. And the Commissioners shall, durir.gr the sitting of the Board, consider and determine all applications in the order in -which they shall appear in the application fcnnk. Provided that if any pereon shal not appear himself or by some person duly authorisd ;on his behalf before the Board when called in his turn, his appi nation shall be dismissed until his name shall appear again in the Book in order. Provided also that if two' or more persons shall apply at the same time to write the:v names in the Application Book the Chief Comroist/oner shall bracket their amesj and shall initial the bracket; and when . they all appear before the Board, the Board shall determiueithe priority of right to be hard by lot. And it shall not be lawful for the Board to hear any application except such as shall be made in accordance with this regulation. 14. The Board shall keep'true and detailed minutes of all applications made to the Board, and all decisions thereon, and of all sums of money paid to the Treasurer, and generally of all the proceedings of the Board; and such minutes shall be signed'by all the Commissioners present at any meeting. And such minutes shall be open to the inspection of all persons desiring to inspect the same, at all reasonable hours, on payment of the sum of two shillings and sixpence for every such inspection. lII.—BTJRTJ3YS. 15. There shall be a Chief Surveyor who shall be appointed and removable by Warrant under the hand of the Superintendent, and as many ssistant Surveyors as shall be necessary, who shall ue appointed and rcwoveable by the Superintendent upon the recommendation of the Chief Surveyor. 16. All surveys shall be conducted in such manner as the Board by any regulations to be made in that behalf shall direct. IV.—THE LAND REVENUE. 17. All payments to be made in respect of land shall be made to the Treasurer'of the Board during the Bitting thereof, and the Treasurer shall thereupon give receipts for the same. 18.—By the 62nd clause of the Constitution Act the Governor is authorised and required to pay out to the revenue arising from the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown all the ceats chiug-es, and ex-