GOLD READY RECKONER.

Kumara Times, Issue 2794, 4 September 1885, Page 4

GOLD READY RECKONER.

The standard price of gold in Kumara is L 3 16s per ounce in the rough, and L 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.:—

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 oil 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 I 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, and description of workings. shall be posted by the Warden on -W outside of his ollice for public inferR, shall not b'e lawful for the Warden *0 gran:: a prospecting claim lor any v.-w discovery at a less distance than two miles from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to grant a prospecting claim for any new discovery cf a quartz .reef at a less dis. tauce than bah a mile from any nn viouslv existing quarts workings. , i v: jrv wo-mecting claim shall, after hying m-vhed, be held by one man remaining on the ground during working mi hi the application is dealt -with, ; e, 1" . tf h the claim must, unless V; vuvN.d permission of the Warden, d „ oied within seven days fi-'.m tic- te of grant, . dr i ;.my, if he think fit, a .-.vj.r’ding claim to the actual dh.cover’ . of new gold workings conh: persona who imvo assisted - ■ur-'snfct.ing either with contrivise, nr with, other per- ■? ,y n :d r■ r-;,-d by the actual, disco v ei ers, although the said persons may- not have ncen on the 1 prior to the granting thereof. Vue Vdu.rdn.u may, upon the application of any persons forming a party of -ot loss than four, grant protection for Hi., move than three m-.nths for a sueerbig area “ at a distance of nob ■.ess than two miles from any existing •••-•.-r'kings in alluvial ground, or in the :aso of quart-3 world rigs of not less than naif a mile from any existing quartz workings ; Provided in no case shall o-v ••.uch prospecting area, be granted within half a mile of any other such , ; r;,snooting area. Provided further N-,’, such pmt ecli'-n shall only continue , ai.i.d g.i!<l is struck, in which ; ' ; • .’-Vi y;>oi-l'-d, ,«• uV ’ ; Ir'.b’i-... :iiv required by the V:o-'OM- to mark a prospecting claim. ;u ; v!ot which cases a prospecting .giiri seal l bn marked and applied for as m-ovided in Regulation 11. and Y., and protection she.'.' them non cease as to .'p, P d-"- ol such prospecting area. r! ' ■i-frl l br tke Warden to V: 7, r,• r... ''.l', : pfOte ;f.e‘Ul c. ;. Pi’ovi.lo.l to t - 7 V net ' ;■ ... -No, -'■ months N

Rough, At L3 36s. Od. Melted, At L3 17s. 0d. Oz. L s. d. 4? s. d. 1 3 16 0 3 17 0 2 7 12 0 7 14 0 11 8 0 11 11 0 15 4 0 15 8 0 10 0 0 19 5 0 G i oo 16 0 23 2 0 26 12 0 26 19 0 30 8 0 30 16 0 34 4 0 34 13 0 ■in 1 38 0 0 38 10 0 •)<■> i 76 0 0 77 0 0 114 0 0 115 10 0 ,:o 152 0 0 154 0 0 ;i0 190 0 0 192 10 0 ■dO 70 228 0 0 231 0 0 206 0 0 269 10 0 30 304 0 0 308 0 0 90 342 0 0 346 10 0 100 : 38C 0 0 385 0 0 GOO 760 0 0 770 0 0 '■GO ‘ • -0 0 0 1155 0 0 il'W'i’S GKS. DWTS GKS. £ s. d, ! s. d. £ s. d. s. d 1 , 0 o 9* 0 If 0 3 10 0 if /> 7 7"' 0 3 f 0 7 Sf 0 3-| 0 n 44 0 54 0 11 6* 0 H 0 2,i 0 H 0 15 4| 0 7k 0 10 0 0 9k 0 19 3 0 0 k 2 94 0 Ilf 1 3 1 0 111 £•7 ■ 6 7“'1 1 6 11J 1 1* 10 4| 1 3 1 10 94 1 3 i 1; 1 14 ni 1 5 1 14 7| 1 H 10 i 18 0 1 7 1 18 6 1 n H j 2 1 0k 1 8f 2 2 4 1 9 12 | o 5 7”l 1 10f . 2 6 2 i 1 11 9, 9 4f 2 0* 2 10 0$ 2 1 14 i o 2 13 i? 2:r' o’; 2 2 3* 44 2 2 13 10| 17 9 2 2 3f 4f 1(5 | o •7 0 91; 2 6* 3 1 7 - 2 6f 17 | 3 4 7 i O si 3 5 5* 2 84 is! o tj 8 A 2 10 3 9 H 2 io| MIN.1? 'G REGULATIONS UNDER t; THE M IRES ACT, 1877. 77