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Otago Daily Times, Issue 181, 26 June 1862, Page 7

LOOSE LETTERS. I All letters receiA-cd from beyond seas,at any Post Office 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 Avhich it is not compulsory by law to send by post, iv which case they are chargeable Avith the inland rate of postage only. INSUFFICIENT payment. Letters and packets liable to more than one rate of postage, and addressed to places Avithin 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, aud bearing less than a single rate of postage, and all letters aud packets otherwise addressed, not bearing the full postage chargeable, Avill be detained nnil returned to the sender in all cases Avhere 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 Avill 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 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 ofiice hours, and at least one hour before the closing; of the mail by which it is desired to be transmitted. Every precaution Avill be adopted to ensure the safe delivery of a registered letter, by entering it on the fetter bills, and obtaining areceipt for the same ondeliA-ery.Astlie Post Office, however is not responsible for the toss of any letter, whether registered or otherwise, persons sending bank notes or drafts are advised to take the numbers and particulars, and to cut the notes or drafts in halves, and to send them by different posts. RE-DIRECTION. Letters, neAVSpapers, 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 neAvspaper or book-packet, it liable to a penalty of £20. SIZE AND WEIGHT. No book-packet or packet of neAvspapers Avill be received, nor Avill 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 JDPEN FOE INSPECTION. EA-ery book-packet shall be sent open at the ends or sides, and there shall-be no enclosure sealed or otherwise closed against inspection sent in or Avith 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,) Avith 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 exclusiA-e of glass in any foim. The names and address of the sender may appear on the cover. OVERLAND CARRIAGE. No Postmaster Avill be required to receive any book-packet for transmission by an overland mail, ir from its weight or any other cause tlie packet appear calculated to retard the carrier. CROSBIE WARD, Postmaster-General.,-,

REGULATIONS

FOR THE DISPOSAL, SALE, LETTING AND OCCUPATION OF THE WASTE LANDS OP THE CROW? 1 IK THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY: - AS AMENDED. 1. A DL Regulations now in force in the ProXJL vince of Canterbury for the sale, letting, disposal, and occupation of the Waste Lands of the CroAvn 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. EA-ery Act Avhich the Superintendent is hereby authorised or required to perform he shall perform solelyin accordance with the adA'ice of his Executive Council for the time heing, 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 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 hand of the Superintendent. 5. One member of the Waste Lands Board shall also be the Treasurer thereof, and such member shall be appointed and removable by the Govenlor. 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 wliich sittings due notice shall be given in the Provincial Government Gazette^ and one or more neAvspapers 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 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. All meetings of the Board shall be attended by at least tliree Commissioners, and shall be open to the public. 10. All applications for Land and fpr Pasturage and for Timber Licenses shall, after hearing evidence when necessary, be deterpained 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 aud exercised by any Commissioner of CroAvn Lands, under the provisions of the " Crown Lands Ordinance, Sess. X., No. 1;" and the "Ooawi Lands Extension Ordinance, Sess. XL, No. 10." 12. All the routine business of the Land Department shall be transacted by the Chief Comniissioner, subject to 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 name of eA-ery person desiring to make any application to the Board shall be written* in order by himself or any person duly authorised on his behalf. And tlie Commissioners shall, during the sitting of the Board, consider and determine all applications in the order in Avhich they shall appear in the application book. Provided that if any person shal not appear himself cr by some person duly authorisd on his behalf before the Board when called in his turn, his appi.-ation 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 tlic-r names in the Application Book the Chief Commiss'oner shall bracket their nines, and shall initial the bracket; and when they all appear before the Board, the Board shall determine the priority of right to be hard by lot. Audit shall not be lawful for the Board to hear any application except such as shall be made in accordance Avith 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 sigL°.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 of the sum of two shillings and sixpence for eA-erv such inspection. tiI.—SURVEYS. 15. There shall be a. Chief Surveyor who shall he appointed and removable by Warrant under the hand of the Superintendent, and as many ssistant Surveyors as shall be necessary, who shah oe appointed and removeable 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 he made in respect of land shall be made to tlie Treasurer of the Board during the sitting thereof, and the Treasurer shall thereupon gi\'e receipts for the same. 18.—By the' €2ud clause of the Constitution Act tbe Governor is authorised'and required to pay out to the revenue arising Irom the disposal of the Waste Lands of the Crown all the costs charges, and ex-