AID TO PROSPECTING.

Kumara Times, Issue 2772, 10 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 Eiding, will be subsidised as under, while prospecting Partially Worked and Prospected Country, •within tolerably easy access of road commnnication : sinking: Dry Ground —Is 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 6d per foot for next 500 feet, 4s 6d per foot for next 500 feet (or any portion of 500 feet). Through Hard Rock, Requiring Blasting, or through Pug—ss per foot. AH 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 must wend iu a report, once in each month to the Council, setting forth the nature, extent, and result of operations during the previous month. .All measurement of work done under class 11, to be made by the Eoa(>Overseer of the district, who will be recuired'io certify to the voucher for payment. The subsidy under class 1 and class 2 may be discontinued, if the Council think nec'ssiry, on one month's notice of discontinuance Irung given to the party or parties. Payment will i>e m:ido monthly. Applications (giving the full name.* and residences of each man of the proposed party or parties, and specifying the country in which it is proposed to prospect) must l>e t-enr to 'he Council Chambers, on or before Tuesday, I lth

August, sit 5 p.m., th«> application to b> endorsed on the envelope, " Application for Prospecting; Class I," (or Class 11, as the case may be). REWARDS FOR THE DISCOVERY OP NEW GOLDFIELDS. The County Council are prepared to grant Rewards for the Discovery of Goldfifilds, as follows : For the discovery of a new gold fa eld, three miles from any workings:—For every 100 men employed mining thereon, at the expiration of six months from date of discovery, a reward of £IOO per 100 miners, up to £SOO for 500 or more miners so employed. For the recovery of a lost lead in close proximity to the place where lead was lost, m reward equal to one half of the above rates. And for the recovery of a lost lead (or the discovery of a now lead) one one mile from any lost lead, a reward equal to two-thirds of the above rates. Joseph Grimjiond, County Chairman. County Chairman's Office, June 13th, 1885. THE BAD AND WORTHLESS Are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and the most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money and credit on the good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in similar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the word "Hop" or "Hops" were used in a' way to induce people to believe they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word "Hop" or "Hops" in their name or in any way connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr. Soule's name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.