ADDITIONAL PECULATION FOR THE OTAGO GOLDFIELD.

Dunstan Times, Issue 782, 13 April 1877, Page 3

ADDITIONAL PECULATION FOR THE OTAGO GOLDFIELD.

We extract the following from the New Zealand Gazette : -■ Regulation XXVI., Section 23.—Withdrawal of Exceptions over Crown Lands. Whenever auriferous deposits shall heknown or supposed to exist within the bounds of any Crown lands within the Otago Gold Field lawfully and bona fide used as a yard, garden, cultivated field or orchard, or upon which any house or other buildii g, or any artificial dam or reservoir, shall he lawfully standing, and which arc excepted' from occupation for mining purposes, and for residence or business under any minor’s right or business license, under the provisions of the ninth section of “ The Gold Fields Act, ISSfi,” it shall ho lawful for any holder of a miner’s right to apply in writing to the Warden for permission to occupy the whole or any portion of such lands for mining purposes, and the Warden shall thereupon fix a day, being not loss than seven days from the date of such application, for deciding the same, and a copy of such application, with notice of time and place of hear me, shall he served on the occupier of the land in question ; and the Warden may, by writing under his hand, order that the whole or any portion of such land shall cease to bo excepted from occupation for mining purposes, upon such terms as to the mode 'of working the ground, restoration of the soil, or other conditions as ho may deem necessary or desirable : Provided that in aU cases compensation for actual damage or loss shall he paid to the, occupier of such Crown 1 mils by the person desirous of taking pos session of the same for raining purposes prior totalling possession thereof ; and such compensation may, if the parties cannot agree, lie settled by arbitration in manner provided by section eleven of Peculation XXVI. Subject always to the coalition that if either of the parties to the arbitration shall fail neglect or refuse to appoint an arbitrator within seven clear days after notice given to them by the Warden so to do ; or if the arbitrators shall for seven days after notice given them by the Warden fail neglect or refuse to appoint an umpire, thou and in any of the said cases the Warden shall appoint such pessou or persons to he arbitrators or umpire respectively as ho may think fit; and the award of the said arbitrators or umpire so appointed shall have the same force and effect and may he enforced in the same manner as awards of arbitrators or their umpire made under the said regulation.