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Kumara Times, Issue 1450, 21 May 1881, Page 4

v. r. NOTICE. TTENTION having been directed to the fact that there are a number of persons (especially Chinese) Mining for Gold within the County of Grey and Kumara Mining District •who are not the holders of “ Miners’ Rights,” or who are holding “ Miners’ Rights” which have expired, the following extracts from “The Mines Act, 1877,” are published for general information. Warden’s Office, Greymouth, 31st July, 1880. THE MINES ACT, PENALTIES. 172. Any person not being the holder of a miners’ right, license or lease, duly empowering him in that behalf, who shall mine for gold or occupy or carry any business upon any Crown lands shall be liable to the penalties following—that is .to say For the first offence, a sum not exceeding five pounds; for the second or any subsequent offence, a sum not exceeding ten pounds nor less than five pounds, with imprisonment in some gaol, there to remain for any time not exceeding one calendar month for every five pounds or fractional part of five pounds so to be paid; Provided always that in any case where a miners’ right or business license may have been lost or destroyed and the existence of such right or license can be proved, it shall be lawful to issue to such person a duplicate of such miners’ right of license in lieu of and comprising the like rights and privileges of such lost or destroyed right or license, until the due expiration of the same, and for which the fee of one shilling shall be paid in case miners’ right and five shillings in the case a business license, and a statutory declaration shall in all such cases be made as to identity and the facts of the case. 173. Any person who shall knowingly mine or employ any person to mine for gold on any land belonging to a private individual, without the consent of the owner thereof or his duly authorised agent, shall be subject to the like penalties as are mentioned in the last preceding clause, 174". If any person shall forge or alter any miners’ right, license, lease or other document issued under the authority of this Act with intent to defeat the provisions of this Act, or to defraud any persons whomsover, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof before any Court of competent jurisdiction shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or imprisonment with or without hard labor not exceeding three years, or both, at the discretion of the Court. 175. If any person shall use or exhibit any forged miners’ right, license or lease, issued or purporting to be issued under the authority of this Act, knowing the same to be forged, or if any person shall fraudulently personate the holder of any such miners’ right, license or lease, shall falsely or fraudulently represent that any servant or other person is an authorised person within the meaning of this Act, or shall fraudulently use or exhibit as his own any miners’ right, license or lease, belonging to or granted to any other person, or shall use or exhibit as valid a miners’ right, license or lease, which shall have expired, he shall be liable to a penalty for every offence not exceeding fifty pounds, or to imprisonment with or without hard labor, pot exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the Court, Norwich union fire insurance SOCIETY (instituted in 1797), Agricultural Insurances accepted on Stacks, Barns, Threshing Machines, and Farming Implements. Victorian Branch; Offices—44 Queen street, Melbourne, E. R. YENCKEN, Manager, TCAYE’S WORSDELL’S PILLS, The good old English Remedy for all Diseases. Established over Fifty Years. Known all over the World. For upwards of half a century Kaye’s Worsdell s Pills have been esteemed as the best remedy for the prevention and cure of disease. Their use renders the doctor unnecessary in the family. Acting on the blood, they purify it from all- humours, rendering the life-giving fluid healthy in its action, and consequently restoring and establishing the health of the invalid. These Pills are invaluable to emigrants, being a certain remedy for all diseases pf the stomach, lungs, liver, <kc. Are equally adapted for all ages, and either eex. Persons residing in the Colonies, Who cannot have recourse to medical adtice, will therefore find them indispensable. The Proprietor has in his possession thousands of testimonials bearing witness to; the wonderful efficacy of this invaluable medicine, a selectipn of which acpompanies each box. Sold by all Chemists and other Dealers in Patent Medicines throughout the world, at |s l|d, §s gfi, apd% fid per box-