REGULATIONS FOR AID TO PROSPECTING.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5335, 2 November 1885, Page 4

REGULATIONS FOR AID TO PROSPECTING.

Wellington, October 29

The following regulations for aid to prosppctiner, as taken from the roport of the Goldfields and Mines Committee, were gazetted to-day, and are as follow : — 1. Upon the Council of any couinty, or, where the Counties Act is not i;n force, upon any Road Board adopting the following regulations for prospecting for diamonds, gold, Bilveiy or tin, the (government shall, subject to the following con*

ditions, subsidise by pound for pound the amounts expended by each County Council or Road Board, as the case may be. 2. Previous to the Government binding itself to subsidise any local body as aforesaid, each local body shall submit its proposals to the Minister of Mines for approval. 3. On the application and proposals having been approved of, each payment shall be made on the certificate of the County Chairman in the case of a County Council, and in the case of a Road Board on the certificate of the Chairman of the said Board, or such other person as may be appointed by the Mini ter. 4. The amounts payable by way of subsidy to any County Countil in any one year shall not exceed £500. 5. The amounts payable to any Road Board in any one year shall not exceed £200. 6. The Government shall subsidise by pound for pound any amounts expended by County Councils or Road Boards in the purchase of boring appliances to be used for prospecting purposes. The following are the amended regulations as to REWARDS FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NEW GOLDFIELDS. 1. Upon the Council of any County, or where the Counties Act is not in force upon any Road Board adopting the following regulations, the Government shall subsidise by pound for pound the amounts paid by way of reward under the same. 2. For the discovery of a new goldfield, three mile 3 from any workings, there shall be paid, at the expiration of six months from date of discovery, a reward of £100 per 100 miners, up to £500 for 500 or more miners so employed. 3. For the recovery of a lead in proximity to the place where a lead has not been worked for a period of six months, a reward equal to one-half of the above rates ; And for the discovery of a new lead one mile from any lost lead, a reward equal to two-thirds of the above rates. 4. "Workings" shall be construed to mean an area of ground upon which alluvial or quartz mining operations are being carried, on. 5. Distance shall be computed from any given point, measured in a direcjt line, from where gold-mining is being carried on, to the site of the discovery. 6. Every application made by a County Council, or Road Board, within a mining district or gold-mining district, shall be accompanied by a certificate from the Warden of the district in which the discovery has been made ; or, if the discovery be outside any mining district or gold-mining district, then the certificate shall be signed by the Chairman of the Land Board of the land district in which the discovery has been made. Such certificate shall state the amonnts paid by the local body, and that such payment has been made in accordance with these regulations. 7. In the event of any person discovering a payable goldfield beyond the jurisdiction of any County Council or Road Board, the Government shall recognize the application, and deal therewith in the same manner as if it had been made by a County Council or Road Board. 8. For the • discovery of a payable diamond field, lode of silver, or lode of tin, for every 100 miners profitably employed thereon at the expiration of six ! months from date of discovery, there shall be paid a reward of £100 up to £500 for 500 or more miners so employed. ■ A correspondent writes to the Wanganui ; Herald stating that there is grave reason for the belief that the neglect of the encroachments made by the sea on the southern epit at Wanganui Heads is likely soon to necessitate the erection of a costly protective works.