NELSON GOLD-FIELDS LOCAL REVENUES ACT, 1873.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1841, 30 June 1874, Page 2

NELSON GOLD-FIELDS LOCAL RE VENUES ACT, 1873.

The , following are the clauses of the Amended Bill. . . -■ A , new, clause has' also been inserted, although not appearing,^ the Bill as printed, repealing the revenue clause of the original Act : — L 1 Actions 24/ 25, 2^ 27, 28; ; 29; and 30, of the said recited Act shall not be in force within the limits ! qfa.ny borou.gh now constituted, oriwhich, : mayp hereafter be constituted under the iiovisiona^pt ' ' The t jytunicipai Corporations Act; XB6f ," and which may be within the boundaries of any district constituted :by " The Gold' fields Local Revenues Act, 1873,",f0r the purposes ithereof ; j ' or r which iSy or'inay be, hereafter, , constituted pursuant, jt<ytfie provisions' of any Act amending the SQmjb. 2^ No rate which may have been under the authority 1 ; of " The Gold-fields Locil Revenues Actj ilß73, J f upon v any lands/flr tenements within the limits of any such borough shall ; be .recoverable at law in respect of any such lands or tenements ; and if any person. sbfalL have psid,,anjy rate which : may have been heretofore go made in rejpect.of land or .tenements, situate within such limits ; i the ambtmt so paid shall and may be repaid. to' any such person by the Board f or the distric ;, out of the funds thereof. 3. No person shall be entitled in respec t of, any land or tenements situate within the limits of any such borough to vote at, or take part in the proceedings- of the elections or general meetings which shall take place in any district' constituted by '•'The GoldfielcU Local Revenues Act, 1873," or pursuant to the provhibns oj any Act amending the same.. 4. The short title of the Act shall be " The Qbld^elds Local Revenues Amendment Act, 1874, No. 2." New Clause. —Section ,22 of - " The Goldfields Local Revenues Act, 1873," and section 6 of ," The Goldfields Local Revenues, Act, „1874," sh.aU be and the same are hereby repealed.

„ The lately reported explosion of firedamp in a quartz-mine is thus described by the Thames correspondent of the Southern Cross : —The drive onthe.courae of the No; 1 reef in the, Crown Prince mine has been carried a long distance to the seaward (westward) of the other workings of the mine, and a slide has been . struck. The stopes have been, carried up to the same slide, and hence \}\e difficulty arose. At sjboxxt eigh,t o'clock, las 5 night there was a leakage of water about 12ft above the level in th'e'stopes <if this reef. The under-ground manager, Mr Heeche (brother of Mr Eeeche, the manager of the mine), went up into the : stores, and was about to stop. the leak with clay. Unsuspicious x>f danger, he brought bis candle close to the aperture, when suddenly a fierce blaze burst out. He at once dropped into the main level, and the flame, with great fury,, roamed through the a topes with fearful sound. Mr Beeche, by being underneath, escaped the flames, . which, in about ten minutes, died out. This morning one of the workmen went to the aperture to jam up the hole, when his candle again set the gas on fire, and before he could escape, the front of his shirt and' other portions of Ins clothing were much scorcned. Thiß is quite a new enemy with which to contend. . . ' '.['■;