A USEFUL HINT TO MINERS.
A practical miner informs us (Otag-o Times) of a simple method of purifying quicksilver from adulterations or minerals with which it may through long' use have become impregnated. Having a quantity of silver on hand, which had proved sluggish ami did nor, act. on the plates, our miormnut states that he placed a small quantity of it in a vessel, for the purpose or treating; ir. in the ordinary way, by means of cherflici.ls. Having first treated the silver with nitric acid and warm water, he proceeded to wash it with boiling- water, in which a small quantity of salt had been placed, and was astonished to find the metallic fluid becoming quite lively, throwingup the imparities and all foreign ma'ter to the top in a kind of a s'mm. On being- informed that salt had been' mixed with tho hot water used, as it had been intended for culinary purposes, ho made another experiment with boiling- water, free from any saline, mixture, and not until a small pinch of salt, had been added, did the silver become lively and commence to throw up a scum. Since that time our informant states iie has used nothingbut salt to clean his quicksilver, of course treating- it with nitric acid in the first instance, and he has invariably found this simple and inexpensive plan to answer the purpose.
railway specified therein : And it is also thereby enacted that the line ol railways thereby authorized, to be consttuoted shall be fixed by the Governor and shall commence and terminate at points to he fixed by the Governor: And whereas by "The Immigration and Public Works Act, 1872," it is enacted that as to any railway which the Governor has been authorized to construct, find to fix the commencing and termination poin's and line, thereof, it shall he competent for him, if lie thinks fit, instead of fixing and proclaiming such points and the whole lino at one time, to fix and proclaim portions of such line from time to time, and the commencing and termination point? of any such portion or portions, and the limits and description of any such portion or portions, and the land proposed to be taken for the purpose of any such portion or portions, and to construct any portion or portions so fixed, and to take the lands for the same ; and any such portion so proclaimed shall he dei tried to be a railway within the meaning of the said Art and the said amending Act and this Act: And whereas by " The immigration and Public Works Act, 1872," it is enacted that, at any time after the expiration of twenty-one c\;\js from the publication in the JOsew Zealand Gazatte, and in a newspaper ordinarily circulating in the district, of a Proclamation under the thirteenth section of the said Act, whether of the whole or a portion or portions of a line of railway, the. Governor, on behalf of Her Majesty, may enter upon, take possession of, use and hold, or cause to lie entered upon, taken pis.-ession of, used and held, so much of the lands defined in such Prochuna'ion ns pro~ posed to be taken as shall be required to be taken, purchased, or permanently used for the purposes of such railway notwithstanding that tin agreement, eii'nll not have been come to or an award made for the purchase or compensation money to be paid in respect of such lands: And whereas by the said last mentioned Act it is also enacted that in any case in which a road or right ol roan has been or hereafter may be reserved in any Crown grant, and in any case in which, under "'J he Native Lands Act, 1865," or any law for the time being in force relating to the sale of waste lands of the Crown, or any law whatever, there, is a light to take a public road through any lands, it shall he lawful, after such road shall have been surveyed, to construct under the siiid Acts any railway, or any part of any railway, on the road si.- surveyed, notwithstanding that, such road may not have been made; And whereas the Governor has determined fo construct and maintain a portion of the railway from Mount lloclilort to West port, authorised to be constructed by "The Railways Act. 1871,'' and " the Railways Act, 1872," and "The Railways Act, 1873," which said portion is hereinafter described : Now therefore, I, the Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson, Baronet, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in c.rercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on inc by the hereinbefore in part recited Acts, and in exercise of every other power enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim, declare, and define the limits, description, and lino of the raid portion of the said railway, to he those set forth in the First Schedule hereto; and that the lands specified and described in the Second Schedule hereto arc proposed to he taken for the purposes of the said portion of the said railway ; and that the limits of deviation shall be those set forth in the said First Schedule hereto ; and in pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities conferred on me in that behalf, I do hereby fix the point of commencement of the said portion of the said railway to beat or near a point which is situated in the v continuation of the centre line of Adderly street, and about twenty chains, more or less, north of Gladstone street, in the Town of Wesfport' in the Province of Nelson, and the point of termination thereof to be at or \ ear a point which is situated in the Bulier Local Revenue Board District, in the same province, the said point being in a south-easterly direction, about 150 chains, more or less, distant from the mouth of the River Wariatea.
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Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1217, 6 October 1874, Page 2
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992A USEFUL HINT TO MINERS. Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1217, 6 October 1874, Page 2
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