TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 4166, 25 June 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM. (FROM OCR OWN CORRESrONDENT.) Auckland, June 24th. Sir George Grey is at the Thames on offi cial business. He has held interviews with miuing men in reference to the necessary alterations in the Mining District Act which Sir George promised to introduce next session to obviate the locking up of a new goldfield by large leases, as done at Tairna. The proceedings lasted over three hours, and the recommendations were principally as follows :—That rent shall be payable quarterly instead of annually ; tint ail new gronnd to be taken up shall not exceed tive acres, with power of ultimate amalgamation to extend to thirty acres, or by taking in abandoned I ground to the san,e extent. An amalgama- : tion of five claims after the expiration of six months, and an amalgamation to the extent of thirty acres after the expiration of twelve mouths, from the date of taking up the claim. The claim must be worked, whatever its extent, by not less than one man to each two men's ground. The holdings may be placed in the same position as claims with regard to forfeiture for non-working, the War- ' den having the power reserved of imposing a nominal fine instead. His Honour expressed his readiness to receive any further suggestions from those willing to assist him in the preparation of the Amendment Bill. He also promised to introduce an amendment to the Miuing Drainage Act. To-day, a deputation waited on him, urging that the Ohiuemun goldfields be

rented for agricultural leases. His Honour said that .Ohinemuri was opened by the , General Government under a Bpecial ogresAnient, which he had never seen. The public /record Ijad{ : been locked up in the private box. fi'fi • V" . _.--; Turner, a lawyer from San Francisco, has sent the Star a sustained information re street tramway forwarded by him to City Council, and a special interview requested. He advocates the system most warmly, and say 3it worked wonderfully in San Francisco; increased business, improved the value of pro* perty, and proved one of the greatest boons" to that city. Tramways ran on the steepest gradients.