GOLD FIELDS' REGULATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 203, 2 August 1862, Page 5

GOLD FIELDS' REGULATIONS.

(To tlie Editor of the Daily Timbs.)

8 ib,-As much misapprehension appears to exist relative to the purport of the Gold Fields' Regulations concerning creek and river claims, I have to request the favor of a brief space in your journal for the purpose of setting right the public ou this very important point.

Regulation No. VI. only refers to works of some magnitude, affecting the permanent courses of con- \ s'derabla streams, sack, for instance as the turning of tbe river at AVaitahuna. Ordinary creek workings are in no way affected by it. These can be carried on without let or hindrance (provided that no injury is thereby inflicted on the general public), ami there are not any conditions or restrictions whatever imposed upon this class of mining claims. The old regulations granted 48 feet of tke bed only of a creek or river, protecting the occupant hi the possession of "a surface track" for access to his claim. Upon this track ie was not authorised to mine, neither coald any othar miner enter thereon, so long as tbe creek claim was occupied, so tbat the banks of the creek were virtually locked up. By the new regulations, miners can take up their ground as " wet claims," of 40 feet square, or 1,600 square feet per man. Supposing, therefore, a creek 10 feet wide, each miner is entitled to 30 feet of the bank in addition. Vincent Pykb. Gold Fields* Department, July 31st, 1862.