NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the next General Meeting of the Society of Land Purchasers will be held at the Land Office, Christchurch, on Thursday the Ist January, 1852, at 1 p.m., when a new President and Council will be elected, in accordance with the 7th rule. Candidates for a seat in the new Council are requested to send in their names to me on or before Wednesday the 17th inst., that being the latest day upon which the names of Candidates may be published. The attention of members is particularly called to the Bth rule, by which it is required that all voting papers must be signed and witnessed. The voting paper should specify the name of the President voted for, as well as the Council. R. J. S. Habman, Clerk to the Council. Christchurch, Dec. 10, 1851. NOTICE. " HHHE following Gentlemen have been duly J- proposed, or have duly signified their intention of offering themselves as Candidates for election as members of the Council of the Society of Land Purchasers, at the next meeting of the Society to be held January Ist, 1852: — Messrs. Alport, Messrs. 3. E. Fitzgerald, Barker, Longden, Bowen, Russell, Bray, Simeon, Brittai\, Tailored, I. Cookson, Townsend. C. Dudley, R. J. S. Harman, Clerk to the Council. December 18, 1851. NOTICE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Public Meetings of the Inhabitants of the Settlement will be held on Thursday, January Ist, at 3 p.m., at the White Hart Inn, at Christchurch, and on Friday, 2nd January, at 6 p.m., at the Mitre Hotel, at Lyttelton, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of completing the road communication between the Port and the Plains. " NOTICE. NOTICE is Hereby Given, that a PUBLIC AUCTION will be held by Mr. Ai-port, at the Association's Store, Lyttelton, on Tuesday, the 6th of January next, 1852, at 12 o'clock, for the sale of TOWN LAND in Christchurch and Lyttelton, when the following Sections will be submitted to public competition, subject to such conditions as shall be then and there produced. In Christchurch, -E^Ai'Half-acre Sections, in Eight Lots/numbered on the Canterbury Association's Map as follows: 827, 829 ; 356, 387; 280, 285; 686, 687 ; 831, 833 ; 887, 889; 835,837; 892, 894. In Lyttelton, Fourteen Quarter-acre Sections, in Fourteen Lots, numbered on the Canterbury Association's Map as follows : 91, 1*29, 130, 131, 132, 102, 113, 316, 1 ' \ I 169, 50, 51, 170, 171. | By order of the Agent of the Canterbury Association, W. G. Brittax. Land Office, Christchnrch, 26th Dec, 1851. "CANTERBURY SKETCHES." \ GENTLEMAN, about returning to Eng--c\_ land, has some intention of publishing a set of Lithographs—" Canterlmry Sketches." Gentlemen desirous of obtaining- copies, either for themselves or their friends in England, are requested to send their names and addresses (post paid) to A. W. C, Steadfast Coffee-rooms, Lyttelton, on or before January Slh, when the sketches may be seen on application to Mr. ! Holmes, Grammar School, Lyttelton,