MINING ACTIVITY.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 91, 24 November 1911, Page 7

MINING ACTIVITY.

A MUCH-DESIRED WATER-RACE

The Warden’s refusal to grant a license for a water race from Deep Creek has stirred the rival applicants, Messrs Humphries Brothers and Messrs Nelson and Mayo, to fresh activity, and the Warden will be called upon bn Wednesday, 6th December, todeoide still further applications from the same parties. The court will sit at Blenheim. Nelson and Mayo have filed an application for a race starting at a point in Deep Creek known as’’*The Dam,” about two milee up-stream from the Deep Creek and Wakamarinp junction, including three sidestreams—namely, Stony Creek, Pennyweight Creek, and Rocky Creek—and terminal ins at a point near to B, Kearns’ old whare at Grummety Hill, Two heads of water are required from the dam {•abject to the existing rights of S. Watson and P. Redmond), and eight heads ip all are to be diverted from the creek. The race is to be 18 inches deep and 2 feet wide, and the license to extend over 21 years. The race was pegged at 7 p.m. on 16th November and the application filed at 10.2 a,m. on 17th November. Messrs Humphries Brothers have applied for a license for a water-race on the eastern frmlr of the Wakamarina River starting up Deep Creek about three miles from the Inaction of the creek and the river, and terminating about 4J miles at the point opposite All Nations Creek, with the right to divertftwo sluice-heads from each of the following creeks: Relrigerator Creek, Stony Creek, Rocky Creek, and Penny« weight Creek; the race to be 3 feet deep by 4 feet wide, 15 heads altogether are required, and the license to be for 42 years. The time of pegging is given as 6 a.m, and ZZ-25 a.m, on 17th November. In connection with this application, notice is also given that a certificate of abandonment will be applied for in respect of the license for the water-race granted to Hill, Redmond, and Robertson, now in file names .of Watson and Redmond. At the same sitting of the court Messrs Humphries Brothers will apply for a prospecting license in respect of the hundred acres of land at present held by them ffwW a prospecting warrant. [The difference between a warrant and a liCAPcw is that in the case of a warrant the applicant shall not be required to mark out the land, nor is any survey necessary, but the land shall be identified with Seasonable particularity by reference to its area, situation, and ownership; in the ease of a prospecting license the applicant fball mark out the lend in the prescribed manner, but no survey shall be necessary].