"Gazette " Notices.
[Pcs Pbbss Association.] WELLINGTON, Oct. 29. The Gaeette notifies the appointment of J. Fleming as Registrar of Electors, Lyttelton- John Brabazon as member of the Licensing Committee, Courtenay district, vice H. J. Mathias, deceased; J. Guthrie to be hon surgeon and Eev J. Elmslie to be hon chaplain of Canterbury Scottish Rifles. The resignation of Lieutenant C. C. Bowen. of the Canterbury Honorary Reserve Corps, has been accepted. Amended regulations for aid to prospetting parties are gazetted. The principal points are these : — Upon any County Council or (where Counties are not in force) Road Board adopting the regulations for prospecting for diamonds, goid, silver, or tin, Government shall, subject to conditions, subsid .se by pound for pound tho amounts expended by the County Council or Road Beard. The amounts payable by subsidy to any County Council in any one year shall not exceed £500, and to any Road Board in any one year, shall not exceed £200. Government shall subsidise by J&for £ any amounts expended by County Councils or Road Boards in the purchase of boring appliances to be used for proßpecf ing purposes. Amended regulations as to rewards for the discovery of new goldfields are.srazetted as follows .- — Upon the Council of any County, or, where the Counties Act is not in force, upon any Road Board adopting the following regulations, Government shall subsidise by £ for £ the amounts paid by way of reward under the same : — For the discovery of new goldfields three miles from any workings, there shall bo paid, at the expiration of six months from date of discovery, a reward of £100 per hundred miners, up to £500 for 500 or more miners so employed ; for the discovery of a lead in proximity to the place to where a lead has been lost, and has not been worked for a period of six months, a reward to theextentof one-half of the above rateß, and for the discovery of a new lead one mile from any lost lead, a reward equal to. two-thirds of tho above rates. Tn tho event of any person discovering a payable goldfleld between the jurisdiction of any County Council or Road Board, Government shall recognise the application and deal therewith in the same manner as if it had been made by the County Council or Road Board. For tho discovery of a payable diamond field, lode of silver, or lode of tin, for overy ono hundred miners profitably employed thereon, at the expiration of six montha from date of discovery, there shall bo paid a reward of £100, up to £500 for five hundred or more miners so employed.
"Gazette " Notices.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 5454, 30 October 1885, Page 4
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