NOTES AND QUERIES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 455, 12 January 1878, Page 3

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Asxious to furnish oar readers, with information of practical utility in their every-day life, -we have v -determined to establish a new featnre in connection with this journal. In future this column will always be open for replies to all questions submitted to us of any nature whatsoever. In those rare cases in which information will not be found to be obtainable, the ■question submitted will be offered for solution to the large body of our readers. In this way an immense co-operative Board of Advice, consisting of the whole of our readers, will be established for mutual and gratuitous assistance. In addition to general information, which will be given on all subjects—fencing, licensing, &c.,— a special feature in this column will be THE MINER. To meet the uncertainties caused in the minds of many of our readers by the alteration in mining law under the new Mines Act, 1878, and to esable all So obtain the benefits therein available, we intend to devote special care to the speedy solution of all difficulties met with. We anticipate that the miners in scattered districts will be especially benefitted by our proposals. Information as to the grant of water race licenses for any term up to fifteen years and mining leases at £1 per acre per year; bringing existing titles under the Act—claims, races, residence areas, business sites, or other mining tenements; mode of surrender, cost, benefit; curing minor defects in title owing to technical irregularities in renewals; corrversion of residence areas into fifty-acre homesteads, &c, &c. Another special feature will be THE AGRICULTURIST. To meet the desire of those wishing to obtain land for homes under the Land Act or the Mines Act, we -shall also be prepared to devote a large space in every issue to the agriculturist. Every difficulty submitted will be carefully considered, and our correspondents advised with promptness through our columns. Information as to mode of obtaining lease, ex'Cbange of lease, intended purchase of lease, prices to ■be paid in each and every case; conditions of occupancy on deferred payments ; homegteailß upon Goldfields, &c,—how to proceed, who to apply to, what -monies to remit, &c, &c. Persons desirous of information must furnish us "with their own names as a guarantee against possible -deception, but in no case will any name be pnblished -without authority. The strictest secrecy can be relied upon. All letters requiring an answer should be num?bered, or have attached a plainly written nom de -plume. Care should be taken when documents are referred to to give the dates with accuracy. All communications to be addressed to the Editor •of "Notes and Queries," 'Mount Ida Chronicle,' Naseby. To ensure an answer in our first issue letters be addressed to arrive at Naseby not later Tuesday in every week.