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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 513, 3 October 1857, Page 2

SALE OF TOWN RESERVES. PUBLIC NOTICE. HIS Hofroit the Superintendent directs it to be notified for pubiic'infor-, mation,' that thVTown Reserves of Cliristi church open for Sale ton' the following! •terms ; arid that'a map signed by the Provincial Engineer,may be seen during Office, ■ hours, in the Provincial Secretary's Office, ; Christchurch, setting-forth the Sections into which the land will be divided for the purpose of sale, with a list attached, describing the number, measurement, contents, and upset price of every Section. 1. Every person desirous of purchasing any p-'tion of the Town Reserves must make a written application, addressed to the Provincial Secretary, stating the section or sections which he or she is desirous of pur- • chasing, and describing the same by reference to the number on the Map and List above referred to. 2. Land so applied for will be put up at ■ I Public Auction, at the upset price specified on the List, not being less than after the' | rate of Fifty Pounds per acre. : 3. Any number of sections comprised in : one block, and named in one application^ not • exceeding five acres, will'be put up to Auc- • tion as one lot. ' 4. In every case of purchase of land not s exceeding half an acre, a deposit of Ten per' cent, of the purchase money must be paid! at the Auction, and the remainder within ; one week thereafter, at the end of which j period if the purchase be not completed, the j Section will be again immediately put up to! Auction and the deposit forfeited. 5. Any quantity of land exceeding half an J acre may be acquired either by absolute' purchase on payment of the purchase money1 in manner provided by the 4th term of sale,! or by lease, the lessee undertaking to purchase the laud on the following terms, viz::: —Ten per cent, of the purchase money to be; paid'at' the Auction, —thirty per cent.*within: three years thereafter,—-the remainder on bt before the expiration. of the lease. The lease to be for a term of years not exceeding Seven, at an annual rent of Seven per cent, on the unpaid portion of the purchase money, and to contain, in addition to those implied under the Conveyancing Ordinance covenants by the lessee for the payment of the purchase money as above mentioned, power ■to be reserved to the Lessor to re-enter ori breach of any of the Lessee's covenants. 6. The purchaser may obtain his conveyance, or lease, as the case may be, and rgay be put in'possession, on payment of £1. 7. Auctions will be held from time to time, at such time and place, and subject to such further Conditions of Sale as the Superintendent may direct, of air which due public notice will be given. RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, 10th Feb., 1857.

NOTICE. ' PEOVINCE OF CANTEEBUBY TO WIT. TIMARU DISTRICT. WHEREAS a Writ, under the hand of Thomas Gore Browne, Esquire, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand, &c, &c.;, bearing date the fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, hath been directed to me Belfield Woollcombe, Esquire, as Returning Officer for the District of Timaru, requiring and commanding me to cause to be elected fey the voters duly qualified for that purpose, freely and. indifferently, and in manner and form by law prescribed, a- legally qualified person to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council for the said District of Timaru: Now, therefore I, the said Belfield TVoollcombe, do hereby, in pursuance of the said recited writ, give notice that a public meeting of the1 electors of the Timaru District, will be holden at the Resident Magistrates' Office^TimarUi pn Friday, the 6tb. day of November next, at noon, for the purpose of nomi-> nating a person, to serve as a Member of the Provincial Council'for5 the said Timaru District!; and, in. the event of a poll being/ demanded fdr the candidates or any of them, such polling shall take place on* Monday, the 9fch day 6f November next, at the following polling places, viz., . ■ . ■ • ■ ' ■ At Mr. Macdonald's station, at the residence of Mr. John Hayhurst, and at the Office'of tlie Resident Magistrate, Timaru. : _The voting to commence at any time after nine o'clock, a.m., of the said 9tli day of November, and to close at 4: o'clock, p.m., of tlie same day. - . BEEEIELD WOOLIiCOMBE, Returning Officer. Government Offices,' ChristcHurch, September Istj 1857. BOOKBINDING. ORDERS for all work of this description will now be iakeri for immediate execution, at the office of the Lyttelton Times.