GOLD READY RECKONER.

Kumara Times, Issue 2797, 8 September 1885, Page 4

GOLD READY RECKONER.

The standard price of gold in Kutnam is L 3 16s per cunce in the rough, a:.d L 3 17s if melted. The following tables will shew at a glance the value of any parcel, from a single grain up fco 300 ozs.:—

Any person discovering new gold workin"-, 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 until thegroundshallhavebeen visited by himself or by anyone appointed by him. Notices of all pvospecting claims granted, with full particulars of locality, vield of cold, 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 grant a prospecting claim ior any new discovery at a less distaice than two milos from any previously existing workings in alluvial ground, nor to c-rant a mnspecthig claim for any new discovery of a quartz reef at a less dis. tan co than hair a mile from any previously existing quartz workings. Every prospecting claim shall, after being marked, be held by ovo man remaining on the ground during working hours until the application is dealt with, and, if grunted, 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, prant a pvesptcting claim to the actual discoverer of new p.old workings con;o:.;itly v. ith p'n>oi)3 who have assisted *.}iein in prospecting cither with contributions or otherwise, or with other persons who may be nominated by the actual discoverers, 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 not lews than four, grant protection for not more than three months for a prospecting area " at a distance of not less than two miles from any existing workings in alluvial ground, or in the case of quartz workings of not less than Ibalf a mile from any existing quartz workings: Provided in no case shall anv such prospecting area be granted within half a mile of any other such orospeotiug area. Provided further T k:it such pivfec'.h.n shall only continue io fore?, nutil is struck, in which •,rt.se the di.v-.'over> .-La!! be reported, or until the holders are required by the Warden to mark a prospecting claim, hi either of which cases a prospecting i'jiaim shall he marked and applied for as i.u<-viue.J in Kegidatioii 11. and V., and -':-ro!.ect;-. n shall cease as to -he re: nine-- <A such prospecting area. r : '• : " !... ' •_.yfi-' "o" {'•-'• Warden to ..... ■:'; I;..: T:ee '>o eiu'r; i:l«e protection : , ,;; :--.-V-i? _'_?, .'f v -:V.. PlTivid.lU oii t ..., : ..>,] :':■:-. t hari three months u auy oimc

Rough, I Melted, 1 At L3 16s. Od. At L3 17s. Od. Oz. L 3. d. -6 s. d. 1 3 16 0 3 17 0 2 7 12 0 7 14 0 3 11 8 0 11 11 0 4 15 4 0 15 8 0 5 19 0 0 19 5 0 6 22 16 0 23 2 0 7 26 12 0 26 19 0 8 30 8 0 30 16 0 9 34 4 0 34 13 0 10 38 0 0 38 10 0 20 76 0 0 77 0 0 30 114 0 0 115 10 0 40 152 0 0 154 0 0 50 190 0 0 192 10 0 60 228 0 0 231 0 0 70 266 0 0 269 10 0 SO 304 0 0 308 0 0 90 342 0 0 346 10 0 100 38C 0 0 385 0 0 200 760 0 0 770 0 0 300 1140 0 0 1155 0 0 ■ DWTJ> GRS. DWTS. GKS. £ s. d. s. d. £ s. d. S. d 1 0 3 94 0 If 0 3 10 0 If 2 0 7 71 0 3l 0 7 8} 0 3| 3 0 11 4| 0 54 0 11 64 0 5| 4 0 15 2| 0 7* 0 15 4§ 0 74 5 0 19 0 j 0 9i 0 19 3 0 94 8 1 2 9£ 0 llf 13 1 0 Hi 7 1 6 7 i 1 1J 1 6 1U 1 lj 3 1 10 4f! 1 3 1 10 9| 1 3£ 9 1 14 2*: 1 5 1 14 7| 1 5£ 10 1 18 0 1 7 1 18 6 1 7| 11 2 1 n 1 8f 2 2 4 1 9 12 2 5 7 1 10| 2 6 2k 1 11 13 2 9 4J 2 04 2 10 04 2 1 14 2 13 9* 2 34 2 13 lOf 2 3| 15 2 17 0 2 a 2 17 9 2 4| 16 3 0 94 2 6* 3 17 2 6| 17 3 4 7" 2 8i 3 5 5| 2 84 18 3 8_ if 2 10" 3 9 34 2 104 MINING REGULATIONS UNDER "THE MINES ACT, 1877. )>