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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 540, 6 January 1858, Page 2

NOTICE. Tt/FESSRS. MILESi KINGTON & CO. J-tJL have this day appointed Messrs. C. R. <fc A. F. N. BLAKISTON their AGENTS at Kaiapoi, Dec. 10, 1557. 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. 1 Very Superior PIANO 1 handsome Silver Tea Service 1 doz. each Silver Table, Dessert, and Tea Spoons, and 1 Fish Slice Plated Soup Ladle, Gravy Spoon, Butter Knife, and Sugar Sifter 1 Shower Bath 1 Colt (by Shamrock) \ 1 Set Tandem Harness rirbii'Stove \ For price and particulars apply to j I > GOULD and MILES. HIS Honor the Superintendent directs the following Immigration Regulations to be published for general information. By his Honor's command, JOHN OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary, Provincial Secretary's Office. Christchurch, Dec. 21,1857. IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. AH 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 cask 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 suras of five pounds at a time,'at* periods of three months, until" the whole debt is 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 bona fide 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 assistI ance 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 theageof 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 state what the. rate of passage money to the Colony will be fixed; but all bills will be prepared on the supposition that it will amount to £20, should.itbe less, a proportional part of the bills will be remitted at the time of re-payment. 7. Applications .for assisted passages will be received at the Secretary's Office, in Christchurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton. TOBACCO. SEVERAL TONS SHEEPWASH TOBACCO. W. WILSON.