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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 512, 30 September 1857, Page 2

REVISION OP LISTS OF VOTERS. THE Lists of claims to vote for the Christchurch. Lyttelton, Port Vic:toria, Avon, and KaiapoLElectoral. Districts .having been made up and posted- at jthe .places appointed for that purpose, I hereby give ; notice -that I will attend as undermentioned*- to hear and determine objections to such lists, and to form the Electoral Rolls for such districts respectively, FOE THE POET VICTOBIA DISTRICT and FOB THE tYTTEI-TON DISTRICT, At the Court House, Lyttelton, on Friday, the 25th September, at Noon. FOE THE CHRISTCHURCH DISTRICT and FOE THE AVOIf DISTRICT, At the Council Chamber, Christchurch, on Monday, the 28th September, at Noon. FOR THE KAIAPOI DISTRICT, At the Court House, Kaiapoi, on Thursday, the Ist October, at 1 p.m. '. JOHN HALL, „ Revising Officer. i Christchurch, September 9,1857. j HIS HONOR the Superintendent directs it to be notified, that, with ■! t(ie advice of the Executive Council, he has cancelled the Immigration Regulations published in the Gazette of the 2nd of March,. 1854, and has adopted the following in the place thereof, and. further directs them to be published for general information. . By his Honor's command, : RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office. Christchurch, July ;13th, 1857. IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. All persons desirous of obtaining assisted passages to the Province of Canterbury in vessels under contract with the Provincial Government, may receive assistance as follows:. — 1. The Government will afford assistanceequal in amountto the sum paid in cash by the passenger. If there shall beany balance, the Government will advance the sum, taking from the passenger promissory notes for the amount advanced, payable to the Treasurer of Jthe Province. Such notes will be made payable on demand, but, unless the passenger dispute the 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 passages to the Colony 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 by the Superintendent as sufficient security to the same ; this Bill may then be transmitted to the person who is desirous of emigrating to the Colony, and, being by him presented to the Emigration Agent, will be received in lieu of cash payment, as hereinafter provided; the Bill will be re-transmitted by the Agent to the Colony, and must be paid immediately on presentation. 3. Assisted passages wilhbe afforded only j to hondfide 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 age of 40 years, no person above the age of 50, unless a member of a large family; and no person above 60 years, under any circumstances, will be allowed assistance. 5. When bills are tendered in payment 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 give bills for two-thirds of the whole amount of the passage money. : 6. The Provincial Government are unable at present to state what the rate 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 part of 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 Christchurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton. JUST RECEIVED. IVTO. 3. of the NEW ZEALAND JLV QUARTERLY REVIEW. J. McCARDELL.