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men not over 45 nor under 16 years, accustomed to spade work, with a proportion of mechanics. No unmarried females can be provided with passages under these Regulations, except they accompany and are under the care of a near relative.

The rate of passage has been fixed, until further notice, at £14 per Statute Adult, and all ships employed in this service will be under the provisions of the “Passenger Act.”

Each applicant will be required to give a Promissory Note payable on demand, signed by himself and a sufficient surety, for the whole amount of the intending Emigrants’ passage. If, however, one half of each Promissory Note is paid (without demand) within twelve months after the arrival of the Emigrants, sent for, the other half will be cancelled provided they remain two years in the Province; but otherwise the whole amount will be enforced.

In no case will the indebtedness of any applicant be allowed to exceed £28; i.e. equal to the passage of two adults. The passage money of children must therefore be paid in cash at the time of applications. Children between the ages of 1 and 12 years will be berthed and provisioned as equal to half an adult, according to the Passenger Act; but only one-fourth of the passage money of an adult will be charged, or £3 10s. each.

In the event of any Emigrants applied for declining to emigrate, whatever money may have been deposited with the Provincial Government will be returned, so soon as the Home Agent shall have apprised the Provincial Government thereof; but in the event of any Emigrants applied for accepting the offer of a passage in a particular ship, and so, by failing to present themselves for embarkation at the time and place appointed by the Home Agent for the sailing of such ship, be left behind the passages will be forfeited.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Home Agent will have power to refuse passage where the intending Emigrants are in ill health or in any way unfit, according to his judgment, to undertake the voyage.

John Knowles,
Immigration Clerk.

[FORM OF APPLICATION.]

I, the undersigned, hereby apply for the passage to Wellington under the Immigration Regulations of 1st September, 1864, of

For which

of .......................... will become surety.

Dated the .......... of .......... 186_

(Signature and address of applicant)

£1000 Reward.

AVAILABLE GOLD FIELD.
Superintendent’s Office,
Wellington, 15th January, 1864.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the Provincial Government of Wellington will award the sum of Money, not exceeding in the whole the amount of One Thousand Pounds Sterling, payable to any one person, or distributable rateably amongst any number of persons, who shall discover and make known to the Government the existence of an available Gold field within the Province of Wellington.

All claims for the payment of this Reward, or any portion of it, are to be sent in to the Government, addressed to the Provincial Secretary in the first instance, by whom they will be afterwards referred to the decision of a Commission consisting of three persons, one to be named by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and two by the Superintendent.

By “Available Gold Field” is meant a district within which Gold shall be judged by the Commissioners to exist capable of affording employment to a body of not less than six hundred (600) diggers at a remunerative rate of wages.

I. E. Featherston,
Superintendent.

Printed under the Authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington, by Joseph Burt, Printer for the time being to such Government.