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Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 536, 23 December 1857, Page 2

NOTICE. MRS. CARD begs to announce that, having taken the House and premises lately known as the " Lyttelton Arms," she is prepared to accomodate a limited number of gentlemen with Board and Lodging. Norwich Quay, Lyttelton, Oct. 23,1857. TO THE PUBLIC OF CANTERBURY. HW. DERRY begs to inform them • that he has just received,* •ex Gazelle, an assortment of Bell Fittings, and is now prepared to;-execute all orders in that branch of his business. All orders from the country will receive prompt attention. London street, Lyttelton, Oct. 22nd, 1857. FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT. IVery Superior PIANO 1 handsome Silver Tea Service 1 doz. each Silver Table, Dessert, and Tea ' Spoons, and 1 Fish Slice . I Plated Soup Ladle, Gravy Spoon, Butter Knife, arid Sugar Sifter 1 Shower Bath 1 Colt (by Shamrock) 1 Set Tandem Harness l.lron Stove For price and particulars apply to GOULD and MILES. ! HIS HONOR the Superintendent directs it to be notified that, with j the advice of the Executive Council, he has | cancelled the Immigration Regulations published in the Gazette of the 2nd of March, 1854, and has adopted the following in the place thereof, and further directs them to be published for general information. By his Honor's command, RICHARD PACKER, Provincial Secretary. ■ Provincial Secretary's Office. Christchurch, Jnly 13th, 1857. IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. All persons desirous of obtaining assisted passages to the Province of Canterbury in vessels under contract with the Provincial Government, may receive assistance as follows: — 1. The Government will afford assistance equal in amount to the sum paid in cash by the passenger. If there shall •be any balance, the Government will advance the sum, taking from the passenger promissory notes for the amount advanced, payable to the Treasurer of the Province. Such notes will be made payable on demand, but, unless the passenger dispute the debt, or shall attempt to leave'the Province, payment will only be required in sums of five pounds at a time, at periods of three months, until the whole debt is 1 discharged. The first payment to be made six months after landing. •

2. Any persons resident in the Province desirous of assisting their friends in England, or elsewhere, to obtain assisted passages to the Colony may do so by drawing a Bill to the order of the Provincial Treasurer, accepted by a substantial householder, also resident in the Province, to be approved of by the Superintendent as sufficient security to the same ; this Bill may then be transmitted to the person who is desirous of emigrating to the Colony, and, being by him presented to the Emigration Agent, will be received in lieu of cash payment, as hereinafter provided ; the Bill will -be re-transmitted by the Agent to the Colony, and must be paid immediately on presentation. , 3. Assisted passages will be afforded only to honafide labouring men, mechanics, and female domestic servants; but persons of all classes will be able to assist their friends to emigrate to the Colony by undertaking the payment of the whole of the passage money in the manner above provided, 4. No person will be allowed any assistance unless he shall have been approved of by the Emigration Agent in England. No | single man above the age of 40 years, no person above the age of 50, unless a member of a large family; and no person above 60 \ years, under any circumstances, will be allowed assistance. ! 5. When bills are tendered in payment as cash in England, the amount of assistance given by the Government will be one-half of the amount of Bills. Persons therefore wishing to give their friends in England the utmost amount of assistance must give bills for two-thirds of the whole amount of the passage money. 6. The Provincial Government are unable at present to statje what the rate 6f passage money to the Colony will be fixed; but all bills will be prepared on the supposition that it will amount to £20, should it be less, a proportional part of the bills will be remitted at the time of re-payment. 7. Applications for assisted passages trill be received at the Secretary's Office, in Christchurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton.