THE JUMPING BILL.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 281, 19 June 1873, Page 6

THE JUMPING BILL.

We extract the following from a Victorian exchange: — A Bill for the Limitation of Proceedings and the curing of Defects in Eespect of Titles to Mining Tenements. Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria, and by the authority of the same, as follows (that is to say) :—: — 1. No suit or proceeding shall be commenced in any court, or any judge or warden, to o*ain possession of a claim, or of landtteid as a claim, against any persoi^»ho has been in possession of such cLtinur. land for six months or upwards before the commencement of such suit or proceeding, by reason of any act or omission of or by such person, or any person under whom he derives title, in taking possession of such claim or land under the mining bye-laws of the district. 2. No claim, race, drain, dam, reservoir, or casement, held under a miner's right, shall be adjudged to bo forfeited for the breach of any mining bye-law on any event which happened, or if such event be a continuing event ceased to happen, more than three months before the commencement of the suit or proceeding in which adjudication is sought. 3. Any order of a court of mines or a judge of such court, or of any warden, which decides or purports to decide the right to the possession of any land for mining purposes, shall be deemed valid and effectual in any proceedings whatsoever, whether the I same shall have been made with or without the consent of any party or parties to the proceedings in which such order was made ; and no proceedings shall be considered collusive on the ground only of any such consent as aforesaid ; but notwithstanding anything herein contained, any court, judge, or warden may set aside any order as between the parties to the proceedings in any case in which* such order might have been set aside previously to the passing of this act.

The "Ballarat Star" says that j^ young girl named Elizabeth Jane Snel^ aged fifteen years, has been reportj/l to the police as missing from her homo at the G-reen Hills, Mount Clear. The poor girl, who had been at service for some time with an Italian residing in the neighborhood of the Green Hills, returned to the house of her brother-in-law, Mr. Thomas Alexander, a couple of weeks ago. Her sister found her to be in the family way, but the girl refused to divulge the name of her seducer. She had been in a desponding state of mind for several days, aud it is feared that the unfortunate girl may have committed suicide. She left her sister's house early on Sunday, morning and a clotheß line which is missiug is believed to have been • taken away by her. According to the statistics quoted by the " Correspondent " there is in Russia 1 newspaper for every group of 350,000 persons; in Hungary, 1 for every 41,443 ; Finland, 39,000 ; Italy, 29,300; Prussia, 29,000; France, 23,000 ; Great Britain, 18,000 ; Holland, 16,000; Belgium, 15,000; Switzerland, 6,00; and the United States, 5370. Switzerland and the United States furnish a curious contrast with almost all the rest of the world. We extract the followingfrom tho " Inangahua Herald :— " Tho crushing from the Golden Ledge has not turned out so favorably as antici. pated. From 51 tons of stone the yield was 37 ozs. 14 dwt. of gold, or a little under 15 dwt. to the ton. A yield of 1 oz. per ton was expected. It is but proper to state, however, that the Ledge stone was crashed at per ton of 2240 lbs., whereas all claims take the ton measurement, which it is estimated would weigh about 1 ton 15 cwt. According to this explanation the return is equal to the average. It must be understood that the stone was ■ packed on horses down to Andersons, which will I account for all the stone being taken at dead weight." If the " Herald's " statement that the "ton measurement" is generally given to bf. correct, the real out turn per ton of the West Coast quartz will only be four-sevenths of what it is represented, la this province the returns of irkd crushings from the Government battery are estimated at per ton weight. On. enquiiy from the manager of the Gabriels Gully Quartz Alining Co., we find that the dead weight is also given in his returns, the trucks used being of one size, and the number delivered, at the, battery ca.refu.Uy talUeil,

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