AID TO PROSPECTING.

Kumara Times, Issue 2768, 5 August 1885, Page 3

AID TO PROSPECTING.

The County Council of Westland are prepared to receive applications from Prospecting Parties, under the followlowing conditions ; Class I.—One party of 2 or 3 men in each Riding, will be subsidised at the rate of 15s per week per man, for prospecting new and unprospected country, three miles from any main or district road, and from any known workings. Class 2.—One party of 2 or 3 men in each Riding, will be subsidised as under, while prospecting Partially Worked and Prospected- Country, within tolerably easy access of road communication : SINKING. Dry Ground—ls per foot from surface to 15 feet, 2s per foot from 15 to 60 feet, 3s per foot from 60 feet to any greater depth. Wet Ground, Requiring Slabbing— Double the above rates. tunneling and driving Through Drift or Blue Reef—ls Gd per foot for Ist 500 feet, 3s Gd per foot for next 500 feet, 4s Gd per foot for next 500 feet (or any portion of 500 feet). Through Hard Rock, Requiring Blasting, or through Pug— 5s per foot. All tunnels and drives to be at least 4 feet by 3 feet 6 inches. Prospectors under both class 1 and class 2, are required to send in their names to the County Council, who must approve of same. The locality of proposed prospecting operations must also be stated, for the approval of the Council. Each proposed prospecting party roust send in a report, once in each month to the Council, setting forth the nature, extent, and rfjsult of operations during the previous month. All measurement of work done under class 11, to ho made hy the Road Overseer of the district, who will he required to certify to the voucher for payment. The subsidy under class 1 and mass 2 may he discontinued, if the Council think necessary, on one month’s notice of discontinuance being given to the party or parties. Payment will he made monthly. Applications (giving dm full namesand residences of each m.au oi the pro-

posed party or parties, and specify I'-, the country in which it is proposed to prospect) must be sent to the Council Chambers, on or before Tuesday, 11th August, at 5 p.m., the application to be endorsed on the envelope, “ Application for Prospecting; Class I,” (or Class 11, as the case may be). REWARDS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NEW GOLDFIELDS. The County Council are prepared to grant Rewards for the Discovery of Goldfields, as follows : For the discovery of a new goldfield, three miles from any woikings: hoi every 100 men employed mining thereon, at the expiration of six months from date of discovery, a rewaid of £IOO per 100 miners, np to £SOO foi 500 or more miners so employed. For the recovery of a lost lead in close proximity to the place where lead whs lost, h reward equul to one half of the above rates. And fin' the recovery of a lost lead (or the discovery of a new lead) one one mile from any lost lead, a rewaid equal to two-thirds of the above rates, Joseph Grimmond, County Chairman. County Chairman’s Office, J nne 13th, 1885.