THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1873.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1613, 6 October 1873, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1873.

In our issue of Friday we summarised as closely' and'aa intelligibly as possible those of the new Rules and Regulations for the Nelson Gold-fields which relate especially to claims ph quartz-reefs. The fifth section^ of .these Regulations relates to river and beach claims. The first clause regulates the 'size i of claim. Each person catrclaim 60ft of length , of the stream by a'width of 30ft, but when the;stream exceeds, 30ft in width 'tW 'claim shall be taken from .bank to bank, as defined by the Warden. The second and third clauses notice ; of ; diversion of streams to be given, and direct a wall to be left between claims. In dredging claims each miner; is entitled to an area of 150 ft 'along -the course of the iriveri or gtream, by a width ; bounded by 'high 'water,- mark. .These claims, must. ; be ; marked at right-angles with the course; of ;the stream, by posts 'standing, fonrVieet above, ithe surface,. andt. ; eyery claim. must ■be registered and surveyed, if required; Section 11 defines beach claims to be ailclaims, : extending below, high water mark on the sea beach. ." Such claims shall in air cases be deemed to be extended to the sea, although their ' boundaries in that directiou be not marked by pegs, and although the area 1 Vb -held -^be greater than could, be held without this Regulation, arid this' Regulation' shall not interfere witli !! any power which the Warden _ may otherwise hive to grant extended claims of any kind i upon ? the r beach." The Warden has the power to rectify the boundaries of Beach claims, and to define a base line. These claims shall not interfere , with itraffic, or the discharge of water, tailings, &c, from the inland workings; The Regulations dealing with the form of application,, granting, survey, j and forfeiture of. extended alluvial claims arei not -altered materially. Section 13, which' corresponds to section 12 of the old Regulations, and relates entirely'to^ prospecting for : new i auriferous alluvial; groundj atands precisely as it did, without; addition or alteration. /The first clause of , the 9th septiph directs that a wall of ten fort is to be triairitained 'b'ri each side of ' any : main tunnel '■ ' or between two 1 tunnels. ; ' Persons desirous of rembving the walls fniust. obtain the .written consent of. the holders of the ad-. "jae?nt .claim, or .the > ,authprity, , of ; . the Warden. In renewing certificates of "registration the Warden may impose £ ceaft condittonsjf necessary. The fourth clarise of this section; is moat important, fox non-compliance with, its conditions may lead. to serious results,! It says :— .'"The neglect or failure W register^any right N or interest' in, cases in which registration is retired by- the Regulations, shall be heldto involve, a forfeiture pi the right or interest concerned." The fifth clause indicates the plan to be adopted in ventilating underground workings. , The first , clause of section 1 0 describes . the privileges for which notices of application must be posted. These include waterraces and their extensions or diversions; tramways or shoots, dams and puddlingmachines, amalgamation and residence areas', tunnels, protections^ special aitesj and quartz claims. All notices must-con-tain full particulars, and are to be posted at specified places, and must: be 1 lodged with, the Warden. Objections may be made to the granting of any privilege, and if j on hearing such objections at the place appoiutedi the Warden ponßiders they are not substantiated, , he may, issue, a certificate of registration upon such terms as he may think necessary or desirable for the public g od. The Warden inayf efuse.br allow costs .in causes, and cancel certificates of registration in certain bases. All iClaims,, rights, and privileges, mining agreements between holders of miners rights or: busiheHS 'license* Miv be *egiscered, but, all privileges for which it is necessary to post notices' of application, and all quartz, olairas, prospecting claims, an'd^tunnelling claims must be i registered; • All rightsnheld :. under the: ißegulations may be tranßferred,,but where registration is requiped the transfer must be endorsed on the original Certificate. Certificates must ; be renewed annually, and negli-this-point entails forfeiture at the option of the Warden.,, The eleventh clause regulates the' registration fees, and the twelfth informs any person ur pursuit; ?of knowledge from>the Mining Registrar or his records, that a fee of one „ shilling ; mrist be paid for the! desired information . Section 11 refers exclusively to "Water, Rights and Roads," arid has been adopted as it was 'in the old rules; without alteration. These , remarks will ; also : apply to section 11, relating to ♦'Dams and Puddling Machines, "aection : 13 about "■ Roads and Tramways," section 14 relating - to/ :: " Protections," section 20, respecting " Special Sites," section '21; relating : to "Residence Areas,",- and section 22, regulating. "Business Sites and licenses." The 23rd provides " General Regulation" for contingencies as they hiay arise. , The first clause says that "The erecfcipii of machinery for the working of claims shall ■be; deemedi equivalent to manual labor in tlie following manner-r-that is to say, each:, gum of |$00 expended in machinery shall be equivftle'ftfc to the labor of one than for twelve montjbs.ft; All interference with any working, Aftia, m&h'ine, or other appliance is slrifiijy jprpjj^jb/ifced, The Warden may adjudge ©oin pension jfcp be ih.case of fprfeifciire hy tfoe IWfijy in , whose favor the confiscation was wade, %rth"eb^liefit : orthe7foYmer owner. The | Warden may Renter aiiy claim 1 or working, 'ior empower others to do so^for the purpose of measurement or examination. Any quartz claim may include within its i

boundaries any river, 'permanent stream, or spring, but the bed.'pf suchj iiver; <fee, and a distance of one chain atright "angles with the bank thereof, shall be reserved for alluvial mining, and any person may work the said reserve, but he must not interfere \with • the original holder,- .-or carry on alluvial mining fifty feet of where a quartz reef is visible, or within the same distance of any quartz workings. No lv 'persbri : shall neglect ;ir 6r refuse to bomply with any lawful notice or order given by the Warden. .'Water races may be' carried through claims, and compensation may be awarded for estimated damage ; and business sites or residences areas may be mined upon on the same terms. No ; person can possess a title to more than one claim, unless he holds an additional miner's right for each additional claim. , No claim or right can be forfeited .through neglect of hired workmen, provided such negligence is remedied :by the prinicipal within seven days after receiving written notice. In the event of continued absence from a claim of a shareholder or his representative, the other shareholders may provide a substitute at j; the expense of the absentee. .: Where the ; underground works 6ft wb or riiore claims communicate so 'is : to afford ventilation, such means of . ventilatipri shall riot be bbstructed without the written consent of the owners of all the claims- affected. ' Water-courses .must not be , obstructed with "earth, stores, of .tailings; sluiceboxes, must not be placed! so as to impede the natural, fl-bw pf the w,ater ip. creeks ; flood-gates must be left open one i day iti each week, and ithe ; Warden order all parties ■to assist .in rniakingjandikeeping clear a flood- channel in the most suitable position ,tf or .running , away ; tailings, an d sludge, The Warden may give orders for the proper 'securing) lany claim, and worki may be r compulsively suspended until it canbe resumed without danger. When a miner's- right is lost, a parchment ce:r> tificate of the ■ : sariie date as the original brie maybe obtained on of a fee pf; 2s 6d; ' Nuisances mu^t be t removed at t^e expense of those who caviae them, and the' exercise, of ' any nbisome or un^hblesom'e trade may be prohibited. Pefsons who cause obstructions by felling trees, or injure property thereby, must remove such obstruction within twelve hours and pay for any damage imflicted. Slabs or props must riot be removed Jromj old workings, without taking, specified precaution against injury, or the endangering of other claims; or the parties working them. ..If any portion of the foregoing rules should be deemed inapplicable to the requirements of any district, the "Superintendent may, upon the receipt of a memorial signed by holders of miners' rights or business licenses, suspend the operation of any Regulation, and may again annul such suspension, renew the operation of such Regulation or substitute .'another in lieu thereof. ,

The ;time. for, receiving tenders- for a mail service between Greymquth and Arnold closes atfour o'clock this afternoon. i A meeting of 'the directors of the Greymouth Coal Company was held on Saturday evening, .when a. majority of members were present." Ar'repor^'of ;fche progress* made in; -tunnelling .was received^ and some arrange-' merits made as to fu cure operations, but the' business waV' principally of a routine cha-; racter. ■. . ; . . , ; -- ■'. .. „.,..,,, j We learn that the following works in the Grey district are to be undertaken iintne- . diately • :— Greymouth ;to ; Parqa— i-oad, 1 Oft wide; Marsden to Clifton— road, Bft wide; The survey of the. roads from Pounainu to Lake Brunner, and from Stillwater to Maori Gully, both to' be' sft' -wide, is also at once to be taken in band. All the other works for which appropriations, amounting to L 26.000, were made during the last' session of the County Council, are to be cbmimmedittely, in consequence of the passing of the Westland Loan Act. Messrs G^ iW.Moss and Co, we understand; have been appointed local agents ior the National Fire and; Marine Insurance Oomj Paly- .-■;',■' ,;■.■;,:■■ ' '■.-,'.; The gold shipped at Greymouth by the Albion on her; last trip to Melbourne consisted of 11250z 4dwt from the Union Bank, ,17930z sdwt from the Bank of New Zealand^ arid 619oz7dwt from the Bank of Australasia. -.■•••.■: ■': :' ■ ■'■, •■-:■■• ': ■•'■ .: ■ ..:. i An adjourned meeting of the Borough Counciliwas held on Saturday, when it was resolved that there should be some-modifica-tion made in the, specifications for street formation Jer which tenders had been received j and that these works should be let in three separate contracts. It was also a resolution of the Council that, instead- of , box-drains being employed in the drainage of Mackay street, earthenware pipes should be procured. J -" The nomination of .candidates for the Ahauri and Cobden Road Boards -will take - place to-day (Monday). Messrs James Cunningham, Half-? iiince, W. H. Lash,;Noble'^ 'George 1 M'*Beath, No Town, and J.. W. Jones, Ahaura, are known definitely, as candidates, and: Messrs Drennan,:Alcorn,.Parfitt,; and ■A. ; White are spoken of as probable can>li•iAten for seats in the Abaura Board.: Mr Warden: : ■ WJjitef oord i ; will ; preside at ; the election at Abwrs, Mr G..'S. ; ; Greenwood, : J.P.-,' at No Towui>aud M? Henry J> Lewis, the" District .GoVernmeat;:Suryiey.ori;isbt Cpb> -deh/ So far as we have learnfy the district of Cobden, which "extends to the Coai-mine 6n the one hand,, and to the Razorback on the other, has made no move in the matter. ■ . In the Resident Magistrate's Gotirt^ on - Saturday, O'Connor and Maher, contractors,, w.ere summoned on-the information of the police, for not' having kept ' lights burning at certain v^Darricades . erected by thenr across Taihui streets. Mr Perkins; for the defence, admitted the facts of erecting the barricades, and not putting the lights; ; It was- simply a legal' question of the liability of • the contractors to place lights there. - ; The defence was 'that the street was not yet 1 •■ a street : within the power of the Borough Council, that is to say the part 'between the bridge and Sawyers' Creek, the road; being still in course of construction. The taking of the JBtreet over by the General Government for the; purpose of making the Marsden road e?:en)p!t/?d it from the control of the Corporation. The joontragtors had possession, 1 and could maintai^an acj;inn for jfcrespaas against anyooe Jjntjji it was ppmpieted and thrown' open to the public. The Bench he}d that the contractors were ; bbijnd to kepp a light where the road leads into Chapel Btreet, and was used heretofore, and also at • Pukei-aln, street. 1 He. wp.uld ' not inflict any penalty except the nominal costs, the case : having been; merely, {brought to try thepoint. ■-■ . ; jlnfprmation, .reached Ahftura,, on Friday" that'pr Boor, the' Supefintetident of ':. the Lunatic Asylum,at N.elson, is satisfied that Mr C. Harveli will'h'ave sufßciently Tecoyer^sd his physical, and mental health in a. weejk,o t r jfc.y/o j|w pntitle him to be discharged.:' TheV.Qunds jlnfl.icfced »pon himself by the. unfortunate m^'^^e' rapidly healing, and it ie a«,id the gres}}QapQf: blbflil r&ldting from^ them had a goo<j deaji i)O dp yy'^tk fy& gp^ec^y restoration of his mantal fapul^s. ' ' ]

It is notified; that certain clauses of the Public Health Act are now in force in Westland. The following is an analysis of the clauses in question :— 2O. Houses in towns to have earth or water closets. 21. Central B^ard to make regulations as to auch diseases. They may extend to authorise the removal of parties from their dwelling under certain circumstances, and placing them in a place 'of proper shelter. . '22.; Phy £ic%is, ; &c., in hospitals subject to Board of Heq^tb. 23. Board of Health to provide hospital, &c.,. and remove sick, &c. . 24. Persons acting in the execution of this 'Part may inspect. 25. Powers of Local Boards not enforcing this Part may be transferred to Central Board. Expenses, how recovered. ' * 26. Powers of Local Board to make regulations as to noxious trades. 27. Hospitals ;! not: to be built without approbation of .Central, Board. 28. Management of sewers and drains. 29. Local Boards to ascertain if drains, &c, are nuisances. 30. Local ; Boards- to cleanse or cover such as are nuisances. 31. Houses hereafter built to have privies. 32. Buildings in which many persons collected to have privies. 33. Filthy houses ,to be white-: washed and cleansed. 34.- Persons to cleanse shambles, &c. 35. Inspection of , slaughterhouses. 36. Inspection of premises. 37. Unwholesome food to be; seized. < 38. Pigsties, &c, when nuisances, to be abated. 39. Penalties for obstructing the execution of this Parti 40. Penalties for disobedience of this Part of the Act. 41. Complaints to be heard before Justices. 42. Penalties imposed, how to be enforced. 43. r Appropriation of 'penalties. ' 44. This Part not to affect other powers. 45. -Appeal) from general orders. of Local Board to Central. The annual general meeting of the Greymouth Horticultural Society .is, to be held this evening at the Melbourne ; H6tel. ■ !~; .The survey of the Amuri'stpcU^roaa from the' termination ;pf \ tie. firs.t contract; tp the top of the saddle 'was completed last' week". Mr Surveyor HaUj returned to Ahaura on Fjirtay, , and jre|6'rtejd^, the, \, occurrence of frightfully 'severe .w,eatheifjiii. the neighbor l hood of the "dividing range/ Even'.as^ far down as the BTaupariheavy snowstbrms have been frequent recently. The: late rains and floods have rendered the old stock route all but impassable, especially in the vicinity of Starvation Point. At this place the track is entirely' destroyed, anU' Mr HaU was compelled to swim his horse for some distance in the full force of the rirer icurrehfc. . Ifc'is expected that Mr Dobson will give instructions to 'have specifications prepared and tenders called for making this portion of the new road immediately. , :: :ii v The application of Richard Larkin and party for a . lease M ten ;acres."bf "aufiferdus ground at Tobacco Flat; Try-Again' Teri;ac^, Nelson Creek, came 'before the Warden's! Court, at Ahaura, on Friday. The application was strongly opposed by; Henry Prbigle and William Dexter; onbehalfof thirty-four miners resident in the district. The objection was, made on the general ground, that the grant would, if made as' applied for, create a very injurious monopoly. After receiving the report of Mr Surveyor Lewis, and hearing evidence for several hours, the Warden decided to recommend the grant, if certain modifications were made in the appli-i cation. , ....■■; : James Isaacs, the miner mentionedin our issue of Friday as having deceived injuries .through a mining accident at theLit,tle Grey,! was brought to Ahaura on Friday evening. With, 'characteristic, disinterestedness and disregard for personal inconvenience, every miner at Antonio's Flat turned out to assist in bringing the sufferer within reach of professional relief. Isaacs was carried on: a litter by relays of men, for a long day's journey, through bush where fresh tracks had occasionally to, be cut to let jtbe litter pass, across swollen and 'dangerous rivers and creeks, and in many places through mud and slush and swamps nearly, waist deep. The men biterly, of the condition of the track from Antonio's FlktV'to the . Little Grey. . Antonio's is one;;of the oldest and most productive districts on the Grey Gold-fields, and it £a asserted that not one shilling of public money has evecheen fezd out in making or mending a road to it. Dr Phillips was nob ab Ahaura when the man was brought in, and on Saturday morning Isaacs, who was suffering greatly, was forwarded to Greymouth in a boat, placed at ■his -disposal by Mr D. Gough. ; • i \- At ihe conclusion . of a long interpleader case at the TResident Magistrate's Court, Ahaura, on Friday, one of the solicitors engaged on the winning side applied for substantial '■ costs. ; The opposing Counsel objected to the application, characterising it as an attempt to induce the Court to impose further ruinous expense on; his cliet ;W,ho,, he said, Game into Oourb with a good case, although the decision' was against him. " The other side " did not object to his learned friend's solicitude for -the interests of his client, but "he must really express unqualified < surprise at the spectacle of a lawyer 1 opposing an application for costs." His Worship inquired if silich conduct was to be considered unprofessional ? After some disputation, costs were eventually allowed to the extent of a professional fee of one guinea, whereupon the ungrateful recipient' of jthe fee in prospective remarked, sotto voce, " Only a guinea ! why the argument involved in the application was ; well worth five,»r ' ■■• : ->-;--^:-,. : - l <;uv, 1 , /Uli \ : . : .: : . Oh Wednesday evening, 'Mr 'Broad conyehed a meeting at the Lyell, 1 fop the purpps't of exDlaining the provisions of the Gold-fields Local Revehues'Acti 1 A committee was then formed for the purpose of -securing a representative for the Lyell at the Board to be elected'sbdrtiy, and at a meeting«.of the com., mittee subsequently held it was i- agreed to ask Mr William Pitt 'to allow himself tbybje nominated, along with Mr P. Bi^enna'vin ■ Jhjß event of two members having 1 to be elected. ..,'■<' Goad and party, jyho arje tunnelling under the terrace at the corner ot Park strati, Rqss, are said by tfce Guardian to have a curious contrivance for hauling up fcheir dirb, aud dropping it into a paddock. The paddock is raised about lOffc from the level of Jones's Cr%ek, and the timbers of it are about 7ft or more. To bring the truck up,. a tramway is laid on an incline," and on. the other side of the paddock is another tramway on the sanie principle. , On the. latter, is a. water tank, which, after, being filled with water, runs down the one tramway, and by its weight drags the truck- up the other. After the truck discharges the dirt and the tank the . I water, the empty; truck then running down the one incline pulls the tank up the other There is some ingenuity about the contrivance, but it wants perfecting, as the method is ; altogether slow. It, .however. : suits this party, as the amount of washdirt they bring out of the tunnel is not very great. ,i On Thursday morning there was expe-.. frienced jn th,e : neignhprhboii of 'E^eftqn quite a smart falj of show— the heaviest this season.' |t thawed, however, af ter lyjng but a few minutes. , . / The electorg of the new eieot.opar ; district of Central Buller have 'f^6r warded a- requisi-' tion, to which are attached fifty-signatures," to C. L. Maclean, "Esq., inviting him tacome ■■•■ forward as their representative 1 i^the/^ext :: Council. The Mail says Jhat it ; is i: Mr. , Maclean's intention to comply wilfi tne ' request.;.:, .;• : ; ;.;u „',/; '.•■.•; :-[:■'?. ; ? , The Inaiigalma, Herald mentions/ that.-noi : fewer than four buildings are at, present in d course ;of ;^removal to JJpper-Brpadi^ay.vViz;.,. „ the Commelrciali and .Melbourne ' Hotels, ia s ' building form4jrly occupied, as a, hotel in ,"tne ' l laQw? §i, r m apd Johnston's butchery, l

A small rush took place on Friday to some ground which had been previously prospected at Noble's Creek. There must be a great scarcity of women suitable for wives at Manutahi, as a " young gentleman" thus makes known his forlorn condition through the columns of the Tarandki Herald :-^"^F. J.^ ■ » ybuug-gentlelriari, aged twenty ; &ix, living at Manutahi, Patea, with a ! moderate income, earnestly wishes to correspond and exchange cartes de visite with a respectable, sweet-tempered^ young lady, with a view to matrimony." . The traffic returns on' tlie' " Canterbury railways for the month of August appear in the Gazette /—On ' the Lyttelton and Christ^ church line the receipts s were..L4l'Bt>.ss. 103,' as compared with L37i52 lTsidfoi; the same month in 1872. On the Great South Line the receipts were -L 1398 lls, as compared with LBO1 1 14s 6d for August, 1872. On the Great North Line the receipts were'LlOß3; 15s; as compared with. L 548 3s 9d for tHe ; saihe month' bf 1872; ■ . •. ! - It is intended shortly to reclaim labbjit ten; acres of Dunedin harbor near the Anderson's Bay road, a. survey having already been made. •A little girl named Matilda Anii Thompson, aged one year and nine months, daugiiter of Mr Thompson, storeman at Messrs Stavert and C 6.'s v Nelson, has' died 'from* the 1 effects of an accident ...qn Friday last, when she pulled a pot of boiling water over herself, and sustained severe injuries. A northern- .contemporary states that at the Thames a peculiar action at'law! in regard to the forfeiture of mining shares is abputto be tried; 7 iThe directors bf the Bird -in- Hand Gold-Mining Company are to be sued for th§ recovery of certain; shares' which they forfeited for non-payment of calls, on the ground that at the time such forfeiture was made the directors bad not themselves paid their calls, and were consequently disqualified from acting in that capacity. The Genera! Government haye apparently decioed upon establishing an -overland . seryice between^.Nelepn; and Christchurch. Kb is^intended, ? that, the^mails; should leaye Nelson i. ...and. , CJinatchurch every, Monday inprmng ; at Kekerangu on Wednesday;; re, T¥, r ? d a yi and:arriving,at.Chnst r church and Nelson on Saturday night. The services for which tendersare required are as follows ,:— Nelson, to ; Harunni, 5 Nelson to Kekerangu, Kekerangu to Hiirunuii, ; L: : . co , O( ?.? t Hy is [being told just npwjigainst a well^knowii .bofcelkeeper, -who.,. carries on business i npfc" a hiiridred miles away from Cromwell. It appears that a certain miner — for distinction sailed Samivel— in the neighborhood t of his. establishment, ,was -at one time a pretty regular customer in the way of refreshments, which he as regularly instructed the hotelkeeper; to "stick up." Three months ago, however, "Samivel" turned total abstainer, and the regulars as a matter ; of course ceased. The; other day the landlord duly served Samivel with his little bill up to date, in which the daily "refs." figured as conspicuously as ever. On Samivel remonstrating . with Boniface, reminding him that not only was he a total abstainer, but actually president of the local total abstinence society for three months past, ; the' landlord, in a tone of utmost surprise," exclaimed, " Oh', by «T<we ! I forgot thafcY : We'll scratch them out -"and j immediately gave Samivel credit for the total | amountof "refs.;";' apparently quite un-j conscious that he was other than 'a most; upright and conscientious publican. j