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Lyttelton Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1055, 20 December 1862, Page 7

HIS Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that, witb the advice of the Executive Council, he hos adopted the, following Immigration Regulations, aha further directs them ta be published for general information. T.W.MAUDE, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, April 17, 1862. 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 payablfc on demand, but unless the passenger dispute the debt, or. shall, attempt to leave 1 the:' Province,; payment will only be requited, 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 person 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 1 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 Mil may then be transmitted to the person who is desirous of emigrating to • the colony, and being by liirp presented to the Emi--1 gration Agent, will be received in lieu of cash payi ment, as hereinafter provided; the bill will be re- | transmitted by the Agent to the colony, and must be I 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 i assist their friends to emigrate to the colony by j undertaking the payment of the whole of the passage j money in the manner above provided. ; j . 4. No person will be allowed any assistance unless | he shall have been approved of by the Emigration j Agent, in England. No single man above the age of ; 40 years; no person above the age of 50, unless a j member of a large family; and no person above 60 ; years, under any . circumstances, will be allowed • assistance. j - 5. When bills are tendered in payment as cash in j England, the amount of assistance given by the Goj vernment will be one-half of. the amount of such j-bills. Persons therefore wishing: to give their friends : in England the utmost amount of assistance must i 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 thatrate. 7. Applications for assisted passages will be re- ; ceived at the Secretary's Office, in Christchurch, and at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in Lyttelton. i ; •••::"/; v. : ; . 168.1. ; |AT OTICE.—The Provincial Government are pre--1 JJN pared to make exceptions in the Imtoigration j Regulations in the amount required for the assisted I passages of single women, and persons desirous of | sending for their female relatives who are likely to [make good domestic servants, may avail themselves I of the advantage opened by this exception, and will | only be required to find one-third of the passage | money, if cash be tenlered, and one-half when bills i are drawn: instead of one-half in cash and two-thirds in bills. | T. W. MAUDE, | Provincial Secretary. [Provincial Secretary's Office, May 14, 1862. 1970 NOTICE.— The public are informed that parties desirous of availing themselves of'the Government assistance conferred by the Immigration Regulations published herein, must attend at the offices named at least four days prior to the departure of the English Mail. No applications can be received during those days. T.W.MAUDE,' 1868 Provincial Secretary. PUBLIC NOTICE.—The public are informed that for the future the address, of the Emigration Agent in England is JOHN MARSHMAN, 16, Charing Cross, 160 London. "VT OTICE TO IMMIGRANTS.—AII immigrants 1Y indebted to the Provincial Government on notes i given by them on account of passage money are required immediately to attend at the office of the I Immigration Officer, at Christchurch, to pay the due, or to make satisfactory arrangements | for meeting their liabilities within'a limited time. ; All persons who fail to make arrangements for paying ! such debts will be summarily dealt with according to law. By order of his Honor the Superintendent, ALEXANDER BACK, 2285 Immigration Officer. PERSONS desirous of employing newly-arrived immigrants, are requested to apply to the Immigration Officer at Christchurch. By order of his Honor the Superintendent, ALEXANDER BACK, Immigration Officer. Immigration Office, June 11, ,1862. 2286 ALL persons who have given Bills of Exchange for the passage of Immigrants, and who have failed to meet them when due, will be proceeded i against according to law in one month from this date without further notice. By order of his Honor the Superintendent, > ALEXANDER BACK, Immigration Officer. Immigration Office, June, 11,1862. 2284 PUBLIC NOTICE. . i SIGNALS AT THE RAKAIA FERRY. THE public are informed that Signal Poles are fixed at the Rakaia Ferry on the line of the South Road. The Signals to be used are as follows:—When the River is PASSABLE, the Ball on the North Bank will be kept MAST HIGH; when it is DANGEROUS TO CROSS, the Ball will be kept HALF-MAST HIGH. Travellers arriving from the South, and requiring the Ferry Boat, will raise the Ball on the South Bank, and the Signal will be answered by lowering and again raising the Ball on the North Bank* T.W.MAUDE, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Nov. 5, 1862. 4354 DIVERSION OF ROADS. NOTICE is hereby given that a copy of the Government Gazette, containing a bill for the Diversion of roads, which it is proposed to submit to the Provincial Council, in accordance with the third clause of the Diversion of Roads Ordinance, Sess, 11, No. 3, has been left at the office of the Provincial Secretary, Christchurch, and will be given to the undermentioned persons, or to any agent or attorney lawfully acting on their behalf, upon application for the stiine; the said persons being absent from the province, and not to be found upon diligent enquiry. ■ The following persons are those aftected by this notice, viz:— C. B. Adderley, ro Rural Section, No. 413 Lloyd » . Knowles » 2013 Lucas >» ia J3 Maunsell, » ' ® < Rev. J. James „ 151 T. W. MAUDE, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Oct. 6,1862. 3895