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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 502, 26 August 1857, Page 1

ARTHUR WILLIS, GANN, & CO.'S LINE OF PACKETS BETWEEN LONDON AND NEW ZEALAND. THE following first class ships (with others) are intended to be despatched to both Southern and Northern Ports, as regular traders, viz.— Joseph Fletcher . J. Foster . . . 900 Maori .... G.C.Petherbridge 900 Myrtle . . . . J. Mordue. . . 900 Cashmere . . . G. Pearson •. . 800 Egmont . . . G. C. Gibson. . 900 Simlah . . . . J. Allen . . . 750 SirEdwd.Paget. T. Wycherley . 700 Manner . . G. C. Fraser . . 700 Harkaway. . . J. Wilson. . . 1000 Dinapore . . . J. Loutit . . . 1200 Lord Hardinge . J. Orwin . . . 600 Arthur Willis, Gann, & Co. will readily afford every facility to intending emigrants for Canterbury, until definite arrangements by the Provincial Government can be transmitted to England to promote a continuous stream of emigration { to this Province. R. LATTER. ARTHUR WILLIS, GANN, & COS LINE OF VESSELS FOR NEW ZEALAND. THE fine Ship, the GLENTANNER, is appointed to leave London in the first week of JUNE, with a party of Emigrants ! for this Province. The vessel will also go to Otago, bat comes direct for this Port. ROBERT LATTER. Lyttelton, July 24th, 1857. .PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON. NOTICE t6 IMMIGRANTS. mHE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT JL of Wellington will, in pursuance of the Resolution of the Provincial Council, be prepared to convey to each immigrant, (introduced under their Regulations) as soon as he shall have redeemed his Promissory Note or Notes, a quantity of land equal in value (at the rate of 10s. an acre) to one fourth of the amount of his Passage Money. For example : every immigrant on redemption of his Promissory Note or Notes, will be entitled to receive 'ten acres of land for every Twenty Pounds he he shall have paid on account of the Passage of himself and family. These grants of land will either be made out of blocks specially reserved for Immigration purposes in Small Farm or Agricultural Settlements, or in the immediate vicinity of Roads in process of construction; or the Immigrant may select the quantity to which he shall be declared entitled out of any lands open to purchase as Rural. In order to facilitate the location of Immigrants desirous of immediately settling upon land and of being employed on the Public Works, Reserves will be made wherever practicable, along or near each line of road, and will be laid off in Ten-acre Sections, which the Immigrants will be permitted at once to occupy, receiving a conveyance of the same as soon as they shall have paid the whole of their Passage Money. Parties desirous of availing themselves of this privilege in the block at present being surveyed in the Grey Town Settlement, are requested to make immediate application to the undersigned, who will give any further information that may be required. J. G. HOLDSWORTH, Registrar of Immigration. Registry Office, August 10th, 1857. ' ~~ TO BUILDERS. GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, CHRISTCHURCH. fT^HE Provincial Government is prepared JL to receive tenders for the erection of Government Offices and Council Chamber at Christchurch by THURSDAY, OCTOBER IST. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Temporary Council Chamber, Christchurch, on and after THURSDAY, 3rd September, beween the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.; and further particulars may be obtained of the Architects, to whom tenders in duplicate are to be addressed, endorsed "Tenders for Government Buildings." The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest, or any tender, unless approved. By Order, MOUNTFORT & LUCK. Architects. Christchurch, August 20th, 1857.