REPORTS FROM THE GOLDFIELDS COMMITTEE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 277, 26 June 1874, Page 3

REPORTS FROM THE GOLDFIELDS COMMITTEE.

We select the following reports as being of special interest to our. subscribers :

Interim Eeport No. I.— ln re petition of twenty-nine residents of Blacks, Tinkers, and Drybread : The petitioners pray that 5,000 acres of land on Mr. Glassford's run be thrown open under the deferred payment system. Your Committee having carefully considered this petition, are of opinion that the prayer thereof, to the extent of 2,500 acres, should be granted. Horace Bastings, Chairman. Dunedin, llth May, 1874.

Interim Report No. 2.— ln re petition of thirty-three householders and .others of Naseby:— The petitioners pray that the Public Recreation Reserve in the town of Naseby may not be destroyed by the cutting of an open tail-race through the centre of the same. Your Committee having had the above petition under consideration, and taken evidence thereon, recommend that the Government be requested to vest the Recreation Reserve referred to in the petition, for recreation purposes, in the Corporation of Naseby, less the two chains required for mining purposes.

Horace Bastings, Chairman. llth May, 1874. Interim Report No. 3.— ln re petition of 131 residents of Mount Ida district:— The petitioners pray that sufficient blocks of land be opened upon deferred payments, and that a Hundred be proclaimed on the Maniototo Plain. Your Committee having carefully considered this petition, and taken evidence thereon, recommend that the Government be requested to open a block of suitable land near the line of traffic, and that the Government should leave the selection of blocks of land to the Warden or District Land Officer, and at least two other persons, to be selected in the district, one of whom shall be member for the district. Horace Bastings, Chairman. Dunedin, 15th May, 1874 Interim Report No. 4— ln re petition of William Williamson. The petitioner, as manager of the Kakanui Water Race Company, prays that the water rights of the Kakanui Water Race Company be taken into favorable consideration. Your Committee having carefully considered this petition, and taken evidence thereon, recommend that the Government should give it favorable consideration, the Committee being of opinion that the petitioner is fairly entitled to some compensation. Horace Bastings, Chairman. Dunedin, 20th May, 3874

Interim Eeport No. s.—ln re petition of eleven miners at Clark's Diggings:— The petitioners pray that a public channel be opened at Clark's Diggings. Tour Committee have carefully considered this petition, and obtained the opinion of the Provincial Solicitor thereon, which is to the effect that the G-overnment has not the power to do as the petitioners desire, *in regard to resuming the water right. Your Committee, however, would recommend that the Government should use every effort to bring the parties in this matter to submit their differences to arbitration, or to settle them in some other way. Tour Committee would also recommend that a memorandum be sent to the Warden of the district, requesting that any new rights granted from the creek should be subject to the workings as at present carried on, and also to the workings of any claims which may be taken up or granted hereafter at Clark's Diggings. Hoba.ce Bastings, Chairman. Dunedin, 21st May, 1874.