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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 489, 11 July 1857, Page 6

NOTICE TO NEWLY ARRIVED IMMIGRANTS. NOTICE is Hereby Given, that if any Immigrants who Imve given Promissory Notes in part payment of assisted passages to this Province, and of which payment will be required a year after the date of their landing, are willing to pay the whole or any part of their engagements before that time, they will be allowed a Discount as follows :— Within 3 months after landing, 10 per cent. Within 6 months after landing, 5 per cent. Payments to be made to the Provincial Treasurer, Chrislchurch. By His' Honor's Command, RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christcburcb, Feb. 10th, 1857. SALE OF TOWN RESERVES. PUBLIC NOTICE. HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified for public information, that the Town Reserves of Christchurch are open for Sale on the following terms ; and 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 purchasing, 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 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 Auction as one lot. 4. In every case of purchase of land not 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 period if the purchase be not completed, lhe Section will be again immediately put up to Auction and the deposit forfeited. 5. Any quantity of land exceeding half an acre may be acquired either by absolute purchase on payment of the purchase money in manner provided by the 4th term of sale, or by lease, the lessee undertaking to purchase the land on the following terms, viz.: —Ten per cent, of the purchase money to be paid at the Auction, —thirty percent, within three years thereafter,—the remainder on or 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 on breach of any of the Lessee's covenants. 6. The purchaser may obtain his conveyance, or lease, as the case may be, and riaay 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 all which due public notice will be given. RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office; Christchurch, 10th Feb., 1857. NOTICE. THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT will pay the sum of Twenty Pounds for the best Treatise on the subject of destroying the watercresses and other weeds accumulating in the streams and rivers in the neighbourhood of Christchurch. Every Treatise must be sent in to the Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, before Four o'Clock on the Ist of August next. That Treatise will be considered the best which explains the most efficient, pracicable and economical mode of getting rid of the Weeds, especially in the Avon and Heathcote Rivers. . An additional sum of Fifty Pounds will be paid to the writer, if his plan be adopted by the Government and prove successful. By Order of His Honor the Superintendent, RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial^ Secretary's Office, June 26th, 1857.