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(to Tin: I DITOR OF THK DON STAN TIMKs) S r,—W'll you kindly answer the following questions through your columns, viz. : 1. If a digger cultivates a ph cc of ground on the Gold-fields, without fencing tho la id, can he recover damages fmn persons whose cattle may trespass thereon ? 2. Row the British Government ever allowed a convict, who was under sentence for life to return to England unless his sentence had keen commuted. 1 am, kc., WILLIAM HENDERSON. Gentle Annie, Jan. 20, 1572. [To the first question : No. Section 3, Re illation XX., of the Gold-fields Rules and Regulations, distinctly lays it down that tho holder of a ce-tificate of a rcsishall at all times maintain a secure and substantial fence arou d the land, under the penalty of forfeitu c.. To your second query : Wc cannot 'tell j how, Ed. l>. T ]
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Dunstan Times, Issue 510, 26 January 1872, Page 2
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