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Otago Daily Times, Issue 185, 19 June 1862, Page 7

LOOSE LETTERS. All letters received from beyond seas,at any "Post Office in this Colony, which have not been regularly posted at the place of dispatch (loose letters), ire chargeable with full postage, according to the rates established by the foregoing tables, unless they ire letters which it is not compulsory by law to send by post, in which cuse they ire chargeable with the inland rate of postage only. INSUFFICIENT PAYMENT. Letters and packets liable to more than one rate of postage, and addressed to places within the Colony, or to the United Kingdom, it bearing at least a single rate, will be forwarded and charged with the postage deficient, and another single rate as a fine. Letters mil packets so addressed, and bearing less than a single rate of postage, and all letters and packets otherwise addressed, not bearing the full postage chargeable, will bo detained and returned to the sender in all cases where practicable. Newspapers, if pasted without prepayment of the full amount of postage chargeable, can neither be forwarded £o their lestination nor returned to the sender ; but will be lelivered or forwarded <o the person addressed, on implication, within six mouths, at the office where same were posted, and payment of the deficient jostage in stamps. KEGISTKATION. Any person can have a letter registered by affixing m it by means of the proper lnbels'thc amount of the cgistration fee, in addition to the proper postage, and mwenting it at a Tost Office during office hours, md at least one hour before the closing of the mail by iriricli it is desired to be transmitted. Every preiaution will be adopted to ensure the safe delivery of i registered letter, by entering it on the letter bilk, md obtaining areceipt for the same on delivery. As the Post Office, however is not responsible for the loss of my letter, whether registered or otherwise, persons ending bank notes or drafts are advised to take the mincers and particulars, and to cut tliG notes or Irafts in halves, and to send them by different tosts. KE-DIKECTION. Letters, newspapers, and packets will be re-directed rom one Post Office to another on the written intruetions of the person addressed, but on re-direction ire chargeable with a new and distinct rate of postige, to be paid on delivery. PENALTIES. Any person sending as exempt from postage letters tot liable to exemption, ov enclosing a communicaion in the nature of a letter in any newspaper or look-packet, it liable to a penalty of jE2O. SIZE AND WEIGHT. No book-packet or packet of newspapers will be eceived, nor will any Postmaster be required to reeive any letter if it exceed two feet in length, one jot in width or depth, or three pounds in weight. BOOK-PACKETS TO BF. OPEN FOB INSPECTION. Every book-paelcet shall be sent open at the ends r sides, and there shall be no enclosure sealed or thenvise closed against inspection sent in or with uch packet, nor any thing printed or written in the ature of a letter. CONTENTS. With the above limitations, a packet-book may ontain any number of separate books, maps, prints, r photographs, and any quantity of paper, vellum. r parchment, either printed, written on, or piainj sxclusive of anything in the nature of a letter fhether sealed or open,) with the binding, covering, r mounting attached or belonging to such book, irint, map, or photograph, and ail things legitimately appertaining to or necessary for the transaission of any enclosed literary or artistic matter, iut exclusive of glass in any form. The names and ddress of the sender may appear on the cover. OVERLAND CARRIAGE. No Postmaster will be required to receive any ook-packet for transmission by an overland mail, it rom its weight or any other cause the packet apiear calculated to retard the carrier. GROSBIE WARD, Postmaster-General.

REGULATIONS FOR THE DISPOSAL, SALE, LETTING AND OCCUPATION OP TUB WASTE LANDS OF THE CROW? 1 IN THE PROVINCE OP CANTERBURY: AS AMENDED.

1. A LL Regulations now in force in the ProXI. vince of Canterbury for the sale, letting-, disposal, and occupation of the Wa3te Lands oi the Crown are hereby repealed:

2. All such Waste Lands shall, from and after the day on which these Regulations shall come into force, be sold, let, disposed of, and occupied according to these and not otherwise. 3. Every Act which the Superintendent is hereby authorised or required to perform he shall perform solely in accordance with the advice of his Executive Council for the time being1, and such advice shall be recorded on the minutes of the Council. II. —THE WASTE LANDS HOARD. 4. There shall be established a Board to be called the Waste Lands Board, to consist'of one Chief Commissioner, and of not less than two nor more than five other Commissioners, all of whom (except such one as shall be appointed to act as Treasurer) shall be appointed and be removable by warrant under the hand of the Superintendent. 5. One member of the Waste Lands Board shall also be the Treasurer thereof, and such member shall be appointed and removable by the Gorernor. 6. The Waste Lands Board shall sit at the principal Lnr.d Office of the Province, at certain stated times to be determined by the Superintendent, and shall also sit for special purposes at sucli places and at such times as the Superintendent shall direct; of which sittings due notice shall be given in the Provincial Government Gazette, and one or more newspapers published in the Province. 7. Tiie Chief Commissioner when present, and in his absence then some member selected by those present at any meeting- of the Board, shall preside thereat, and shall haye a casting vote in all questions coming; before the Board. 8. All questions coming before the. Board shall be decided by a majority of the Commissioners present thereat.

9. All meetings of the Board shall be attended by at least three Commissioners, and shall be open to the public. 10. All applications for Land and for Pasturage and for Timber Licenses shall, after hearing evidence when necessary, be determined by the Board at some sitting thereof. 11. The Board shall have power to hear and determine all disputes between the holders of Pasturage and Timber Kicenses respecting the boundaries of runs and districts, and shall have and exercise all the powers which may be lawfully had and exercised by any Commissioner of Crown Lands, under the provisions of the " Crown Lands Ordinance, Sess. X., No. 1;" and the " Crown Lands Extension Ordinance, Sess. XI., No. 10."

12. All the routine business of the Land Department shall be transacted by the Chief Commissioner, subject to such regulations as may be made by the Booid in that behalf.

13.'A book to be called the "Application Book" shall he kept open during office hours at the Land Office, in which the name of every person desiring to make any application to the Board shall be ■written in oilier by himself or any person duly authorised on his behalf. And the Commissioners shnll ; during the sitting of the Board, consider and determine all appliratioijs in the oider in which they shall appear in the application *w»k. Provided that if any person shal not appear himself or by some person duly uuthoiisd on his behr.I*' before the Board when called in his turn, his r.ppi.'ation shall be dismissed until his name shall appear again in the Book in order. Provided sleo that if two or more persons shall apply at the same time to write their names in the Application Book the Chief ComnuWoner shnll bracket their ames, and shall initial the bracket; and when they all appear bciore the Hoard, the Board shell determine the priority of right to be hard by lot. And it shall not be lav tul for the Board to hear any application except such as shall he made in accordance with this regulation. 14. The Board shall keep true and detailed minutes of all applications made to the Board, and all decisions thereon, and of all sums of money paid to the Treasurer, and generally of all the proceedings of the Board; and such minutes shall be sigi_°d by all the Commissioners present at any meeting. And such minutes shall be open to the inspection of all persons desiring to inspect the same, at all reasonable hours, on payment ol the sum of two shillings and sixpence for every such inspection. lII.—SURVEYS. 15. There shall be a Chief Surveyor who shall be appointed and removable by Warrant under the hand of the Superintendent, and as many ssistant Surveyors as shall be necessary, who shall «ie appointed and removeable by the Superintendent upon the recommendation oi the Chief Surveyor. 10. Al! surveys shall be conducted in such manner as the Board by any regulations to be made in that bc-hali shall direct. IV.—THE LAND HETBKDE. 17. All payments to be made in respect of land shnll be niade to the Treasurer of the Beard during the sitting thereof, and the Treasurer shall thereupon give receipts for the same. 38.—8y the CSitd clause of the Cpnsthution Act the Governor is authorised and required to pay out to the revenue arising- irom the disposal of the Waste Lands of tie Crown all the costs charges, and ex-