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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 267, 18 April 1874, Page 3

WASTE LANDS BOARD,

The usual w;eekly meeting of this Board wasjield last week*. Present: Mr. J. T. TiomSon (the Commissioner) in the chair, and Messrs Butterwortb, and Clarke., , Coxi Lease.—Messrs* Thoxnsoa and Irving, through Mr. Stout, applied for a coal lease of section 117j.bloek 11, Leaning Rock district. The Clyde Town Council recommended that a lease be granted.— Mr. Gillies said it was never intended, that the Board should abdicate its functions in favor of the Clyde Corporation. The question of this coal lease had been several times before the Board.—Mr. Gillies appeared on behalf of Mr. Marie, and. contended that that gentleman was fully supplying the district, and hoped that the matter would be settled once and for all. He called several witnesses to prove there was a good supply of coal.— It was resolved that the lection in question should be put up to auction, subject to the improvements made upon it by Marie. • . ' , .

Leaning Rock.—Mr. Ti Wilson applied to nurchase section 4, Leaning Rock district,- on run 221; with the. consent of the runholdej*; l - Postponed.'.': •".'"."." Sib F ;i Dp-lon BBtL.;-Sir F. Dillon Bel) requested the decision of the "Board on the points raised by him, and submitted for the Attorney-General's opinion, as to the power of the Board to sell the land in Shag Valley recently added to the Goldfields.—The matter was again postponed. : Ida Valley.— Sir F. Dillon Bell asked, by letter, jf the Board was advised that the act of taking a block of land on his run, No. 261, Ida Valley, was in accordance with the Waste Lands Act.— ■Letter read and received.

Tioeu Hill.—Messrs. Thompson and M'Bran applied tpjexehange lease of section 16, block 11., Tiger Hill.V-Agreed to 1