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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1187, 23 January 1864, Page 2

Governmssit Notices. TO ARCHITECTS. THE Provincial Government of Canterbury, New Zealand, request designs for a SUPREME COURT HOUSE, to be erected in the city of Christchurch, in the province of Canterbury, the building to be constructed of stone, or brick and stone. Two premiums will be awarded as follows:— ,£IOO for the best design. £50 for the second-best design. Premiated designs to become the property of the Government, rejected designs will be returned. The whole of the designs will be submitted to Edward Dobson, Esq., Civil Engineer; and Mr. Maxwell Bury, Architect, Christchurch, Canterbury, as referees on behalf of the Government. Particulars as to site, number of plans required, &c., can be obtained on application at the Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch-, or to Miles and Co., Melbourne j or to Gilchrist, Watt & Co., Sydney. Designs to be sent in to the Provincial Secretary of the province of Canterbury, on or before the 27th March, 1864. WM. ROLLESTON, Provincial Secretary. Christchurch, 7th December, 1863. 6245 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 person resident in the Province desirous of assisting their friends in England or elsewhere to obtain assisted passages to the colony fiiay 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 retransmitted 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 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 1 in England the utmost amount of assistance must < give bills for two-thirds of the whole amount of the 1 passage money. 3 6. Exceptions to the above rule will be made in ! favour of bona fide female domestic servants, the assistance given by the Government where payment j is tendered in bills, being one-half the amount of passagemoney, and where cash is tendered two-thirds. * 7. The rate of passage money, inclusive of inci- ; dental expenses, to the colony is fixed until further ( notice, at £17, and all bills will be prepared in accor- s dance with that rate. ] 8. Applications for assisted passages must be made 1 at the Office of the Immigration Officer, in Christ- s church, or at the Resident Magistrate's Office, in \ Lyttelton, at least four days prior to the departure ] of the English mail. . 1 Issued by order of his Honor the Superintendent, * WM. ROLLESTON, ! Provincial Secretary. j Provincial Secretary's Office, c Christchurch, Dec. 4, 1863. 1360 t : T

NOTICE TO PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT FOR ACCOMMODATION AT THE CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL. MESSRS. W. and N. JOYNT have been authorised to collect the amounts due to the Provincial Government from persons who have been supplied with accommodation at the Christchurch Hospital. WM. ROLLESTON, Provincial Secretary. Provincial Secretary's Office, Christchurch, Dec. 4, 1863. 2974 PROCLAMATION. THE ROAD DISTRICTS ORDINANCE, No. 1, 1863. THE TOWN OF KAIAPOI DISTRICT. WHEREAS by the above mentioned Ordinance it is, amongst other things, enacted that for the purpose of bringing the said Ordinance into operation every person whose name should appear on the Electoral Roll for the time being in force for the election of members of the Provincial Council for the Electoral District or Districts in which the District for the purposes of the said Ordinance may be situated, in respect of property situate within such last mentioned District, and every resident householder within such District should be taken and deemed to be a rate-payer for the purposes of this Ordinance, and that a meeting of such electors should be held at the hour of noon on such day for each District respectively as the Superintendent should appoint after the first day of the month of December, 1863, for the purposes of electing five members who shall constitute the first Board for the District: Now therefore I, SAMUEL BEALEY, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in pursuauce of the powers vested in me by the said Ordinance, do hereby appoint that a meeting of the electors for the Town of Kaiapoi District shall be held at the Kaiapoi Hotel, within the said District, at the hour of noon on MONDAY, the 25th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, for the purpose of electing five members who shall constitute the first Board for the said District. Given under my hand at the Government Buildings at Christchurch this eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. S. BEALEY, Superintendent. By his Honor's command, j Ww. Rolleston, Provincial Secretary. 134 PROCLAMATION. ~ THE ROAD DISTRICTS ORDINANCE, No. 1, 1863. THE CENTRAL AVON DISTRICT. WHEREAS by the above mentioned Ordinance it is, amongst other things, enacted that for the purpose of bringing the said Ordinance into operation, every person whose name should appear on the Electoral Roll for the time being in force for the election of members of the Provincial Council for the Electoral District or Districts in which the District for the purposes of the said Ordinance may be situated, in respect of property situated within such last mentioned District, and every resident householder within such District should be taken and deemed to be a rate-payer for the purposes of this Ordinance, and that a meeting of such electors should be held at the hour of noon on such day for each district respectively as the Superintendent should appoint after the first day of the month of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, for the purpose of electing five members who should constitute the first Board for the District.