GOLD READY RECKONER.

Kumara Times, Issue 707, 4 January 1879, Page 4

GOLD READY RECKONER.

The standard price of gokliu Kumara is £•'» 16s per ounce, in the rough,, and £o 17s if melted. The following tibles will shew at a glance the value of any parcel, from a single grain up to 300 ozs.:— Rough, Melted, At £3 ]Gs. Od. I At £3 17k. od.

Any person discovering new gold working, and being desirous of obtaining an increased area thereon shall mark off a prospecting claim, as provided in Regulation 11, and shall immediately report such discovery with full particulars to the Warden, and the ground so marked off shall be protected until the Warden shall have finally refused or granted the claim ; but the Warden may, if he think fit, refrain from granting or refusing such claim until thi-groundshallhavebeen visited by himself or by anyone app iuted by him. Notices <>f all prospecting claims granted, with full particulars of locality, yield of gold, and description of workings, shall lie posted by the Warden on the outside of his office for public information. It shall not l>e lawful for the Warden to grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery at a less distance than two miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to giant a prospecting claim for any new discovery of a quartz leef at a less dis. tance than half a mile from any previously existing quartz workings. ICvcry prospecting claim shall, after being marked, be held by one man remaining ou the ground during working hours until the application is dealt with, and, if granted, the claim must, lmL-ss by special permission of the Warden, be fully occupied within seven days from the date of grant. The Warden may, if he think fit, grant a prospecting claim to the act mil discoverer of new L old workings conjointly with persoi s who have assisted them in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may be nominated bv the actual discovers, nlthough the said persons may not have been on the ground prior to the granting thereof.

The Warden may, upon the application of any persons forming a party <>f i notices than four, grant pr >tection for j not more than three months for a prospecting area " at a distance of not less than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial ground, or in the case of quartz workings of not lens than half a mile from any existing quarz workings : Provided in no case shall any such prospecting area be granted within half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided fur her that such protecti >n shall only con inne in force until gold is struck, in which oase the discovery >hall be reported, or until the holdcs are required by the Warden to murk a prospecting c! dm, in either of which cases a' prosp-c ing claim shall be marked and applied for as provided in Regulation 11. nrnl V., and protection shall therupon cease as to the remainder ot such prospecting area. ]t shall be lawful for the Warden to renew from Lime to time the protection for a prospecting area. Provide I that such renewed protection shall not he granted for more than tnreo months at any time. Every prospecting urea shall ho con- ■ tinuously worked by at least two mmi I -Juvins: the entire period of occup.iucy.

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