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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 589, 26 June 1858, Page 7

NOTICE. "VTOTTCE- is hereby given that from -Ll and after the Ist day of October next, the Waste Lands Board will sit at the Land Office, at Christchurch, on MONDAY and THURSDAY in each week, at 12 o'clock, at noon, instead of on Tuesdays and Fridays as heretofore. JOHN OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Jan. 20th, 1858. AKAROA. FRENCH MAGAZINE RESERVE. THE Provincial Government are prepared to receive Tenders for the purposee of "The French Magazine Reserve," situate in Lavand Street, Akaroa, and the buildings thereon. The area of the Reserve is Oa. lr. 12p. or j thereabouts, and the buildings are constructed of substantial materials. All tenders must be in writing, addressed to the Provincial Secretary, and must state the amount the applicant is prepared to give for the property. If the sum offered in any tender be deemed sufficient by the Government, the premises will be put up to auction, pursuant to the Ordinance. Two months notice of the time and place of sale will be given. By order of his Honor the Superintendent, J. OLLIVIER, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Dec. 22nd, 1857. 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. All persons desirous of obtaining assisted passages to the Province of Canterbury in I 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 m cash by the. passenger. If there shall be any balance,-the Government will advance the sum, taking from tlie 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 fq.,leave.lhe_ 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 j Treasurer, accepted by a substantial house- j holder, also resident in the Province, to be | approved of by the Superintendent as suffi- i cieut security to the same ; this Bill may then be transmitted to the person who is desirous of emigrating to the Colony, and, i 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 j all classes will be able to assist their friends j to emigrate to/the Colony by undertaking ! the payment of.the whole of ihe passage money in the manner above provided. j 4. No person will ''_j Sowed any assis.- j ance unless he shall have oeen approved of j 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 j of a large family; and no person above 60 j 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 ofthe 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 tbe 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 will be received at the Secretary's Office, in Christchurch, and at. the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton.