GOLD READY RECKONER.

Kumara Times, Issue 2741, 4 July 1885, Page 4

GOLD READY RECKONER.

The standard price of gold in Kumara is L 3 16s per ounce in the rough, and L3~ 17s if melted. The following tables will shew at a glance the value of any. parcel, froioa a single grain up to 300 ozs.:—

MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877." Any person discovering new gold working, and being desirous of obtainin» 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 iuntil thegroundshallhavebeen visited by Mraself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices o£ all prospecting claims granted, with full particulars of locality, yield of gold, and 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 granc a prospecting claim ior any new discovery at a less distaice than two miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery of a quartz reef at a less dis. tanee than half a mile from any previously existing quartz workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after being marked, be held by op 3 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 <>hi workings conjointly aith persons who have assisted iheni in prospecting either with contributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may l>e nmiinnted 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 aot less than !'.)ur, grant protection for not more than three m nths for a prospecting area " at a distance of not ! less than,two miles from any existing workings in alluvia! ground, or in the aase of quartz workings of not less than half a mile from any existing quartz workings : Provided in no cafe shall m\y such prospecting area be granted "within half a mile of any other such prospecting area. Provided further that such protect/n-n sha.'.l only continue '■a force until gold is struck, in which i..s.!se the discovery .-hall be reported, t>r until the holdeis are required by the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, in either of which cases a prospecting rdair.i shall be marked and applied for us provided in Herniation 11. *nd V., and protection shall therupon cease <is to lie remainder ol such prospecting area. 1; .liiali lit) lawful tor the Wurden to ffc-niw from rime to time the protection for a prospecting area. Provided fch t rtr.ch ieneu-<'<.l orol,e>->ioi <*hali not Vo grunted for mor *">jan tnree months at auy ciflto •

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