NELSON.
the Spray we have a file of the"' Nelson ' Examiner' to April 29. .j ; ; : ™: | The Provincial Council, after an adjournment from January 15th, resumed its sittings' on the 7th of April, the chief business before it is the new Waste Lands Measure, which; is thus suminaiised in the '^Examiner:— : -':".'. " All lands are to :be put; tip for sale auction:': ,• :': ■''■''■•■'-[ ■- ";■ -'■' '■:'■/'■ '■■■'■ •■•' -^ \r =';r: "They are to'be divided into five classes, viz ; ,: , Town; Suburban; Rural 3 Pastoral and other; | and Mineral. means'fit for agricul-^ ! ture; Pastoral and other, unfit.; .: : ! " The Tipset price of these lands is to be fixed by a Board, to consist of they Superintendent^ the Speaker of the Provincial Council and the Land Commissioner. For Town and' Suburban; Lands, it may be what the board pleases; for Pastoral lands, anything between Is. and 10s, per acre; for Rural, anything between 10s.: and 20s. ,■_ ■ '.;".•■.■■■. ■ : "■■•.". ::;''-; "Noticeof the auction sale to be given from one month to three: months previously. "Lands actually sold at the-auction sale to be paid for within a month after; 10 per cent; at time of sale/ If longer time of desired, purchasers may enter into a contract with' Government to pay by thirteen- annual instalments of 10 per cent." upon the purchase money.- This includes interest at five per cent. Bona-fide occupation and improvement required. For rural lands there are to be the;erection of ■' a house, and cultivation of a per cen^ tage of the land according to its character, as bush land, fern land, &c.: One acre in every fifteen of fern or open land to be tilled; or laid down to grass every year, one in every twenty of bush land. Bona-fide occupation by the purchaser to be equivalent to these improvements. For pasture lands the condition is that : they be stocked as required under the Regulations now in force—one.ewe to every twenty acres, or one cow to every hundredrandtwenty. Land to be absolutely forfeited on failure in making these improvements, or in occupation, or payment of instalments. "Lands not sold at the auction sale may be taken for three years at the'price they were put up at; or the highest price bid for them. But Government may at any time withdraw them from-sale, and put them up again-at-a different price. ■'■•' ■-■> ■■" v . , •/..-. " The present holders of pasture licenses may buy, without going to auction, any amount of
their runs, up to 10,000 acres. Price to be assessed1 as before; payment' within/ three months, pr,by instalments as before. . " Depastm-ing licenses tq ; be given on same conditions as' at present. r ..,.. , . " Mineral Lands to be leased and sold as at present. Leases for twenty-one years of blocks not exceeding two square miles; annual royalty or; rent of one-fifteenth of minerals raised reserved for Government; lands to be put up for sale; at £1 per acre after three years' working, in blocks notexceeding sixty acres. ;: : L : "These, we think, are all the. important provisions of the regulations; The 'minimum of Is, ; for non-agricultural lands was substituted by the .Council for the 2s. 6d. originally proposed; and the board in the Government Bill was : to : consist of Superintendent,; Executive Council, and Commissioner." . . ; THE GOID FIELDS. : The following paragraphs from the 'Examiner '' give the principal facts from the diggings.1 The gold fever,;that paper says, had reached its. cold stage. '■- - -:[:~: ;''; \ ' ■:''.■■■••■ :"-'; '-• ■'''■;■ We find the quantity of gold brought from the Aorere this week reported, at the Customs,' to be 169, ounces, while last week the; quantity was 108^ ounces. As there is no law to compel persons bringing gold to Nelson to make the Customs acquainted with the result of their labours, we may be sure that the quantities; above/ stated form but a small portion of the gold which is finding its way here from; the, Aorere. As' there are now several vessels running from Aorere to Wellington, we may be -sure that no small quantity of the yield of our gpld-fields will find its way across the StraM-^Aprillß. ; ; '}?... ;;: ;': : -':";;:; y r;V'::\';:: . The new. gully, that discovered by M'Gregpr, we are told, is ;beginning to, yield.much better, and iC reports speak" of other gullies in which the cliggers : are doing exceedingly we 11.,. Here^ too, the ,worldng parties!are very cha^ry, of their information;. ;but; our informant, again brings his Australian experience to bear upon : tbem, and; remarks that they are continually carrying up gbo4 loads-qf provisions—-a* circumstance, certainly not very compatible with the idea of much disappointment. Nay, he. thinks there is npthing to prevent or render it improbable thai.these diggers may eventually afford another "instance of that peculiar secretiveness and reticence, combined .with good luck and inter-, rial satisfaction of which our informant gives us; one example, which he assures us he knows, for a fact. One party, he declaresT-^but dpes not gives us their names, which we are. therefore, unable to give pur readers—represented their earnings at not more than ss, a-day, and.yet offered for sale 100 ounces, of gold which, they had; procured, ki;about eight weeks, .: , Another . party, he says, consisting of three mcii, last week gathered 8 ozs< of gold in four days.: In most,of these successful instances, and indeed, in most cases of even moderate success, one or. more of the parties have been "practical diggers, experienced as working men.";''..,. ■■■;..;. \;. ■ '.^.. v..;.'... ,'..■ ' ■ ... . A "nugget of quartz, beautifully intermixed with gold,, about the size of a walnut," has been brought over, and; may be seen ; in Mr.. Qoates's window. It was picked up,by a " pros• pecting " party on the hills between.; Appoo's andLightband's Gully. A small specimen of a metal, believed to be platina, has also been found; It is a " bright metal," according »to our informant's description, " in appearance Hke silver, but exceedingly hard," and he advises, gold diggers tolpokout for and take care of it. —April is. ■•;■; ;■;.;;.:.." 'c\:' : .'.:-: '.'"■''■ '■-. We have just seen the best spepimen of gold brought from the Aorere which has yet fallen under pur notice. It is a lot of 20 ozs. § dwts. 19 grs., obtained by two men, being the result of five weeks' labour, the first two of which was spent unprofitably.- This, however, was not the whole of the; gold found, as the men_ had parted with a small quantity before returning to Nelr, son. The lot is wholly of a nuggetty character, varying in size from the head of a large pin to that of a French bean. This gold was obtained in Appoo's Gully, which lias now 450. persons employed in it alone. We have seen within the last few days, several: other successful diggers who have returned 'with their bags well filled. Persons are flocking fast to the Aorere from all quarters, and the number there must now be< fast approaching ijOOO.-^Jlpril 22. . ■We have seen a letter from the Aorere, which' states that a nugget of gold weighing 2 pzs.
11 grs. had been found in Appoo's Gully, by Lyford's party, this;ibeing;the largest nugget yet found there. The.quantity of gold brought from the Aorere this week> and entered at the Customs, is 169 J ounces, but _ this does not represent, as we have before stated, the quantity of gold actually brought ."over<. In the present week we know of one party with 23, ounces who has returned horiie, and who did not report his gold to the pustonis at a 11.,; It will be seen by our shipping list "that 108 passengers had arrived at the Aorere from Wellington. We hear that dysentery is becoming prevalent there, which is attributed to the intemperate habits o f many of the men, and exposure yrhich they suffer by lying about in the nigh-fc air.— April 25. CoLiiNGWppip (Aobeee). ■—The .following vessels had;arrived atjCpllingwood from Weilington since. Ist; p-April:—Harry, 22 tons,; Sancto, passengers; 33; Sarah Elizabeth, passengers, 16; Pride of the j Isles, 28 tons, Gilbertson, passengersi'lO; Augusta, 50 tons', Hood, passengers, 19; 'Sea--Serpent,' 90 tonsj Blair, passengers, 30.: ";../'".;;..;:'. \;" '■':,.■",..'. .>''..'•,
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 470, 6 May 1857, Page 6
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