GOLD READY RECKONER.

Kumara Times, Issue 2740, 3 July 1885, Page 4

GOLD READY RECKONER.

The standard price of gold in Kumara ' isl. 3 16s per ounce in the rough, and X 3 17s if melted. The following tables will shew at a glance the value of any parcel, from a single grain up to 300 ozs.:—

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877." 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 the ground shal 1 have been visited by himself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices of all prospecting claims granted, with full particulars of locality, yield of gold, aud description of workings, shall be posted by the Warden on the outside of his office for public information. It shall not be lawful for the Warden to grant a prospecting claim lor any new discovery at a less distance than two miles from any previovly existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery of a quartz reef at a less dis. tance than half a mile from any previously existing quartz woi'kings. Everv prospecting claim shall, after being marked, be held by ops man remaining on the ground during working hours until the application is dealt with, and, if granted, the claim must, unless 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 actual discoverer of new cold workings conjointly with persons who have assisted thstn in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, or with other pergons who may be nominated by the actual discovers, although 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 of SOt less than four, grant protection for not mere thau three months for a prospecting area " at a distance of not less than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial gi-ound, or in the case of quartz workings of not less than half a mile from any existing quartz ■workings : Provided in no case ehall any such prospecting area be granted within half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further that audi protection shall only continue IV. iCi'Cu 'u."tX-'.i ■.;•"'- ■'! ;S S';i ~ ! V:.~., 11l TfCl^i'i v.-ise the di?co"ery shall be reported, «3i* until the holders are required by the Warden to mark i-, prospecting clairvi, m either of v.h-.ch cases a prospecting uki-n shall be narked and applied for as provided in Regulation 11. and V.. and protection shall tihervpon cease as to the remainder ol such prospecting area. It shall bo lawful for the Warden to renews from time to time the protection for a prosp'f'-otim? area- Provided th t such nrctectior: shall not j granted, for tcor "h<an three months at any time '

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