NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR RUNS.

WHEREAS applications have been made to the late Land Commissioners at Wellington and Hawke’s Bay for Runs on Land not yet purchased from the Natives. Notice is hereby given that no such applications, whether already made or hereafter to be made will be treated as conferring any priority when the lands in question shall have been purchased unless deposits at the rate prescribed by the Regulations, of the 15th February 1855, be paid upon the same.

WILLIAM FOX,
Chief Land Commissioner.
Wellington.

Chief Land Commissioner’s Office Wellington,
17 February, 1857.

NOTICE TO SHIP OWNERS AND AGENTS.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th February, 1857.

TENDERS will be received at this Office until noon of Thursday, the 26th instant, for the importation from Great Britain, of—

2000 (Two Thousand) Adults.

Further particulars and conditions may be had on application at this Office, by letter or personally, on and after the 9th instant.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.

PROPOSED CONDITIONS.

PROPOSED CONDITIONS for the introduction of a number of Immigrants equal to (2000) two thousand Statute Adults as fixed by Passenger Act, 1855, from Great Britain, to the port of Wellington, New Zealand.

DESCRIPTION OF REQUIRED IMMIGRANTS.

An equal number of both sexes so far as practicable; young married couples being preferred; none beyond 45 years of age will be approved of, except when coming as part of a large family.

The principal portion of the Immigrants to consist of able bodied labourers of good character selected from the agricultural districts of England and Scotland. E.G.

Ploughmen
Shepherds (Scotch if possible)
Stockmen
Dairymen and general Farm Labourers
And Single Women, consisting of:—
Dairymaids
Cooks
General House Servants, &c.

Together with some Navvies, and a proportion (say not exceeding ten per cent.) of Mechanics, such as carpenters, shoeing blacksmiths and wheelwrights. These also to be selected from the country; the inhabitants of large towns, as a rule, to be objected to.

In order to secure as far as possible that the Immigrants should be of good character, the Provincial Government will require that all application papers of those shipped should be produced to their Immigration Agent at Wellington.

Arrangements for Voyage, &c.

Wellington to be made the first port of call in New Zealand.

The ship to be under the Passenger Act, 1855, in all respects, except where otherwise specified.

The Dietary Scale to be increased by the issue of 1 lb flour per week: and the Captain to be recommended to allow the authorized substitute for salt beef whenever requested by any of the Messes.

Amount of respective arrivals, date thereof.

The first ship with Immigrants to arrive within 10 months from date of notification of acceptance of tender, and an interval of at least six weeks to intervene between the dates of departure of each ship.

No one ship to contain a greater number of individuals than equal to 300 statute adults.

The Contract to be completed on or before the 28th December, 1858.

Financial Arrangements.

Each Tender to specify the price per statute adult, including all charges and commission whatsoever whether incurred in England for selection, boarding, &c.