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Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 5, 8 February 1851, Page 2

PETITION TO THE QUEEN. A COPY of a petition, now in course of signature by the inhabitants of all the Australasian Colonies, for the immediate cessation of Transportation to Van Diem en's Land, lies for signature at the Land office at Lyttelton, The Canterbury*colonists are earnestly requested to consider the grievous injury that would accrue to them and their posterity, should New Zealand continue exposed to the influx of escaped convicts from Van Diemeu's Land. Jan. 23, 1851. TO PURCHASERS OF LAND IN THE CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT. HOLDERS OF LAND ORDERS, drawn on the Ist of July, 1850, are recommended to lose no time in taking such steps as may be in their power towards an early selection of their" Town and Rural Sections, as, if they have not chosen on or before the 17th inst., they will incur the risk of losing their priority of'choice as determined by the Register List of Purchasers made in England. Laud Office, Lyttelton, Jan. 17, 1851. PUBLIC NOTIGE. -]VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that -L all persons found cutting or damaging any •of the Timber or Underwood on lands within the Canterbury Settlement without license granted from the Land-Agent of the L Canterbury Association,.will be prosecuted as the law directs. By order of the Agent of the Canterbury Association, W. G. Britxan. Land Office, Lyttelton, Jan. 17, 1851. NOTICE. /COMPLAINTS having been "made" ftartr Labourers have broken their Contracts with employers, in order to obtain employment on the Works of the Association, Notice is herebjr given, that in case any such complaint be substantiated, the labourers to whom it refers will-be-immediately dismissed. John Robert Goblby, Agent. Jan. 21,1851. PUBLIC NOTICE, IT is earnestly requested, that the Pegs and Stakes erected by the Association's Surveyors may not be removed or destroyed, as •the greatest public inconvenience necessarily arises from such removal or destruction. Land Office, Lyttelton, Jan. 24, 1851. "TNTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that -*-^> all parties to whom squatting Licenses have been granted, pro tern., from the Land Office of the Canterbury Association, will be expected to remove from, and give up possession of the land they occupy, within a reasonable time after all the allotments have been made to the first body of land-purchasers, when the means of legally occupying land, the property of private individuals, will be afforded them. By order of the Agent of the Canterbury Association, W. G. Biuttan. Laud Office, Jan. 16, 1951. TO LAND-PURCHASERS AND AGENTS, npHE undersigned, having secured the -■- co-operation of a gentleman who has had ample opportunities, during a residence of two years in the Canterbury District, of thoroughly inspecting its various portions, is prepared to undertake the selection of Town or Rural Allotments for those persons who may not have leisure to form an opinion for that purpose by means of personal observation. He ventures, at the same time, to remind them that unless they be prepared to apply for a certain allotment on or before the l7lh of next month, they will run some ribk of losing all advantage derivable from their priority of choice. Apply to E. Jerningham Wakefiklh. Lyitvliun, Jau. 14; 1851.