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Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, April 17,1862. HIS HONOR the Superintendent directs it to be notified that, with the advice of the Executive Council, he has adopted the following Immigration Regulations, and further directs them to be published for general information. T. W. MAUDE, Provincial Secretary 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 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 paying half the amount of passage money to the Provincial Treasurer, or by drawing a bill to the order of the Provincial Treasurer to the extent of two-thirds of the passage money, accepted by a substantial householder also resident in the province, to be approved of by the Superintendent as sufficient security for 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 bond 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 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 such 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 rate of passage money, inclusive of incidental expenses, to the colony is fixed until further notice, at £17, and all bills will be prepared in accordance with that rate. 7. Applications for assisted passages will be received at the Secretary's Office, in Christchurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton. 1631 NOTICE. IMMIGRATION TO TIMARU DIRECT. THE Provincial Government have forwarded instructions to the Emigration Agent in London, to arrange for a ship to land emigrants at Timaru. The vessel will probably leave England in all September, and may be expected at Timaru in all December. This offers a good opportunity for settlers in the Timaru district to send to England for their relatives or friends, and applications had better be made at once to the Police Office, Timaru, by those who wish to avail themselves of the Government assistance. The public are however reminded that those whom they may send for will be subject to the approval of the Agent in England, and that he has full power to refuse passages in the case of persons who are sickly or unfit to become useful colonists. . T. W. MAUDE, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, May 14, 1862. 1971 . DISCOVERY OF GOLD! ~ REWARD OF £100 0. THE Provincial Government are prepared to offer a reward of £1000 ior the discovery of a Gold Field within the Province of Canterbury, subject to the following conditions : — 1. That the locality where gold may be discovered shall be reasonably accessible from Christchurch. 2. That the payment of the said sum of £1000 shall be subject to the approval of the Provincial Council, and the decision of Mr. Haast, the Provincial Geologist, as to the paying capabilities and the extent of the field. THOS. W. MAUDE, 154 Provincial Secretary. ~ NOTICE. 7~ THE Provincial Government Offices will be open as heretofore on Wednesdays to the usual hour of business. THOS. WM. MAUDE, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, April 9,1862. 1509 NOTICE. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, April 17,1862. THE Provincial Government have arranged with the Official Printers for the sale of all Gazettes and Ordinances. From this date no Gazettes or Ordinances will be sold at the office of the Provincial Secretary as heretofore. T. W. MAUDE, 1621 Provincial Secretary. NOTICE. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, May 9,1862. mHE public are informed that parties desirous of X availing themselves of the Government assistance conferred by the Immigration Regulations published herein, mustattend attheoffices namedat least four days prior to the departure of the_ English Mail. No application can be received during those days. THOS. WM. MAUDE, 1868 Provincial Secretary. PUBLIC NOTICE. EROM and after the Ist day of December, 1861, all parties holding Leases of the Canterbury Associations Reserves being in arrear of rent for the same or who have not complied with the conditions of their respective leases will be forthwith served with a writ of ejectment. By order of His Honor the Superintendent. T. W. MAUDE, 157 Provincial Secretaiy.