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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 514, 7 October 1857, Page 7

NOTICE. HIS Honor the Superintendent of Canterbury directs the following Memo, random to be published for public information. A difference of opinion has arisen between the Provincial Governments of Canterbury and Otago, as to the boundary line between the two Provinces. Sir G. Grey fixed this boundary by a Proclamation dated the 28th day of February, 1853, in the following words: — " The • Province of Canterbury shall ba bounded on • # • * * The South By the River Waitangi to its source, thence by a right line running to the source of the River Awarua, thence by the River Awarua to its source." * * # # mv" TJ 16 f rovi»cc of Otago shall be bounded on The North By the southern boundary of the Province of Canterbury, as already described in this Proclamation."' The River Waitangi having several branches, all having different native names, and the direction of the upper waters being unknown, an ambiguity m the meaning of the Proclamation would have existed had it not been accompanied by a map, annexed to and made part of it. This map marks out the branch running nearly east and west, and the head waters of which are nearest to the head waters of the Awarua river, as the branch intended in the Proclamation; the boundary between the two Provinces thereby running in a nearly direct line across the Island from east to west. The- Superintendent of the Province of Otago, neglecting the map attached to the Proclamation, claims, as a part of the Province of Otago, all the land south of the North branch of the Waitangi: by which claim the boundary line would appear on the map as running first westerly, then for at least 70 miles northerly, then an equal distance southerly to the Awarua River.

The Superintendent of Canterbury has npplied to the General Government, and has been, assured that the matter will be made the subject of legislation at the approaching Session of the General Assembly. In the meantime, NOTICE IS GIVEN that all persons not holding Licenses from the Waste Lands Board of the Province of Canterbury, occupying Land lying north of the west branch of the Waitangi River, as indicated by the Proclamation and map attached, will be treated as unlicensed squatters, and proceeded against according to law. By His Honor's command, RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, September 19, 1857.

PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON. NOTICE TO IMMIGRANTS. mHE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT JL of Wellington will, in pursuance of the Eesolution 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. HOLDSWGHTH, Registrar of Immigration. Registry Office, August 10th, 1857.

TO -B-3 SOLD. A valuable Fifty Acre Section, fronting , on the Christchurch Town Reserve, with House, Out-buildings, <£c. The whole srcfcion is fenced and under cultivation. The growing crop may be taken at a vi»l"*tion. ALSO, The lease of 24 acres of excellent land adjoining the above. This land is securely- fenced, and is under crop. ■ For particulars apply to Mr. A^roßT. Lyfctelton, and to Mr. Hiu, or Mr. J. T. Buowsr, Ohriatchurcli.