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NOTICE. MESSRS. MILES,iKINGTON & CO. have this day appointed Messrs. C. R. & A. F. N. BLAKISTON their AGENTS at Kaiapoi. •■ * Dec. 10, 1857. TO THE PUBLIC OP CANTERBURY. TT W. DERBY begs to inform them JZL«: ■ that' he has/.hist," received, '/e± 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, ' r Lyttelton, Oct. ,22nd, 1857. ; FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT. IVery Superior PIANO 1 handsome' Silver Tea Service 1 doz. eacli Sil¥er Table, Dessert, and Tea : Spoons, and lvFisji SlicePlated Soup Ladle/ Gravy Spoon, Butter Knin»; arid .Sugar Sifter . :'i Shower' Bath ' ; : • .1 Colt (by Shamrock) 1 Set Tindem Harness ; 1 Iron Stove; " '■' ' ■ I For price and particulars apply to I GOULD and MILES. H: IS 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. 21,1557. , 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 affon? assistance equal in amount to the sum paid in-nash 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 tKe passenger o.ispute th'er debt, or-shall"" attempt to leave the Province, payment .will only be required in sums of fivppouuds at a time, "af'peH"ods~cTt"hTee -monthsj 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 EngI land, 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 suffiicient 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 1 Agent, will be received in lieu of cash pay:ment, as hereinafter provided ; the Bill will be re-transmitted by the Agent to the Colony, and must be paid immediritely on presentation. , .-.-.. 3. Assisted passages will be afforded only to hondjide 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, uulessa 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-hall •of the amount of Bills. - Persons therefore; jwishingto 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 unjable at present ; to" state %Vhat' the: rate ot jpassage money to the,polony. Will He fixed 5 ,t>ut all bills, will be prepared on'the suppo jsition that it will" amount to £20, should ;it jbe less, a proportional part of" the-bills will |be remitted at the time of re-payment. : i 7. Applications for assisted passages will ;be received at the Secretary's Office, in iChristchurch, and at! the Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton. " "'[ • ' '' !l I \ TOBACCO. SEVERAL TONS SHEEPWASH TOBACCO. W. WILSON.

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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 543, 16 January 1858, Page 2

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