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Otago Daily Times, Issue 189, 24 June 1862, Page 7

LOOSE LETTERS. * All letters received from beyond seat,at any Post Office in this Colony, which ha\e 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 wliich case they are chaigcable with the inland rate of postage only. INSUFFICIENT PAYMENT. Letters and packets liable to moro 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 chargeil with the postage deficient, and another single rate as a fine. and packets so addressed, aud bearing le^s than a single rate of postage, and all letters and 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 same were posted, and payment of the deficient postage in stamps. REGISTRATION. Any person can have n letter registered by affixing on it by means ofthe proper labels the amount ofthe 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 tha 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, and obtaining areceipt for the same on delivery. As-tlw Post Office, howejer is not responsible for the loss of any letter, whether registered or otherwise, persons sending bank notes or drafts are advised to take the numbers and part icul sirs, und 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 Ofiice to another on the written instructions ofthe 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 ty a penalty of £20. SIZE AND WEIGHT. No book-pneket or packet of newspapers will be received, nor will any Postmaster be 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 orEN FOR INSPECTION. Every book-packet shall be sent open at the ends or sides, and tliere shall be no enclosure sealed or otherwise closed against inspection sent in or witli such packet, nor any thing printed or written in 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, either printed, written on, or plain, (exclusive of anything in the nature of a letter whether sealed or open,) with the binding, covering, or mounting attached or belonging to such book, print, map, or photograph, and all things legitimately appertaining to or 'necessary for the transmission of any enclosed literary or artistic matter, but exclusive of glass in any foim. 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, Postmaster-General.

REGULATIONS FOR THE DISPOSAL, SALE, LETTINC AND OCCUPATION OP THE WASTE LANDS OF TIIE CROW IN THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY: AS AIM ENDED. •

I. - A LL Regulations now in force in the ProXJk, 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 which 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 WAST}! LANDS BOARD. 4. There shall be established a Board to be called the Waste Lands 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 warrant under the baud of the Superintendent. ' 5. 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 ofthe 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 sliall direct; of which sittings due notice shall/be given in the Provinciol Government Gazette^ and one or more newspapers published in the Prpvince. 7. The Chief Commissioner when present, and in his absence then some member selected by those prc?sent at any meeting of the Board, sliall preside thereat, and shall have a casting vote in all questions coming before the Board. 8. All questions coming before the Board shall be decided by a majority of the Commissioners present thereat.

9. AH meetings of the Board,shall be attended by at least three Commissionei-s, 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 Pasturage and Timber Licenses respecting the boundaries of 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, Sess. X., No. 1;" and the "Crown Lands Extension Ordinance, Sess. XI., No. 10."

12. AH the routine business of the Land Department shall be transacted by the Chief Commissioner, subject tc such regulations as may be made by 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 iifime of every person desiring to make any application to the Board shall be written in order by himself or any perspn duly authorised on liis behalf. And the Commissioners shall, during the sitting of the Board, consider and determine all applications in the order in which they shall appear in the application v.<W<. Provided that if any person shalnot appear himself or by some person duly authorisd on his belief before the Bpara when called in his turn, his appi.'ntion 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 their names in the Application Book the Chief Commjs&'oner shall bracket filenames, and shalllnf tial the bracket; and when they all appear before the Board, theßoard shall determine the priority of right to be hard by lot. And it shall not be lawful for the Board to hear any appUcation except such as shall be made in accordance with this regulation. 14. Ihe Board sliall 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 sigi_^d 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 ofthe sum of two shillings and sixpence for eveir such inspection. 111. —SURVEYS. 16. There shall be a Chief Surveyor who shall be appointed end removable by Warrant under the hand of the Superintendent, and" as many ssistant Survey ois as shall be necessary, who shall ue appointed and immoveable 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 inrcspett of land shall be made to the Treasurer of the Board during the sitting thereof, nnd the Treasurer shall thereupon give leceipls for the same.

18.—By the 62nd' clause of the Constitution Act the Governor is authorised and required to pay out tb the revenue arising' irom the disposal of the Waste Lends of the Crown all the costs cbargef, and ex-