RETURN OF ALL GOLD MINING LEASES WHICH HAVE BEEN APPLIED FOR DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1866.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1866 Session I, C-02

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RETURN OF ALL GOLD MINING LEASES WHICH HAVE BEEN APPLIED FOR DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1866.

{Return to an Order of the House of Representatives dated 1st August, 1866.) That there be laid upon the Table of this House—" A Keturn of all Mining Leases which have been applied for during the year ended 31st March, 18(56." ■I (Mr. Bradslmw.)

WELLINGTON.

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RETURN showing the Applications for Gold Mining Leases received in the Secretary's Office, Gold Fields Department, Province of Otago, for the Year ended 31st March, 1866, in the order in which they have been received.

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RETURN OP APPLICATIONS FOR GOLD MINING LEASES.

District. Names of Applicants. Date of Application. Extent of Claim. Receipt of Warden's Recommendation in Gold Fields Office, Dfnedin. Disposed of in Dunedin, AND HOW. When forwarded to General Government. When eetubned by General Government. Remarks. A. e. p. tabriel's ... r - Pearee and Company Lancaster and Company Mortenson and Company McNamce and Company Farrell and Company Henry Stone and Company Caledonian Spur Company ... Thomas Lees ... John McColl Susannah Smoothy ... Peter Robertson McLaven and Company Odd Fellows' Company 26th April, 1865 18th May, 1865 24th April, 1865 2nd May, 1865 6th Oct., 1865 6th April, 1865 29th Aug., 1865 4th July, 1865 4th Dec*., 1865 ditto 7th Dec, 1865 15th Feb., 1866 13th Mar., 1866 4 4 3 6 6 0 3 4 10 10 9 2 2 0 20 1 1 0 22 0 0 2 14 3 15 2 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 26 3 14 20th Jan., 1866 ditto 26th Mar., 1866 ditto ditto 25th May, 1866 ditto 28th May, 1866 15th June, 1866 ditto ditto 12th July, 1866 ditto Application cancelled ditto Returned to Warden Cancelled ~i Under consideration \ in Provincial Secre- ) tary's Office Returned to Warden ditto 27th Feb., 1866 ditto 28th Mar., 1866 4th June, 1866 29th June, 1866 Not Registered. ditto. ditto. I raitahuua Happy Com pany 21st May, 1866 1 0 12 18th July, 1866 ditto r Plutus Quartz Mining Company 19th July, 1865 16 2 4 20th Sept., 1865 10th Oct., 1865 29th June, 1866 [RecTd. at Dunedin] 13th Mar., 1866 29th June, 1866 3rd Sept., 1866 JTOW ■■■ 1 1 Jupiter Quartz Mining Company ... Who'd-ha'-thought-it Company Barraeouta Company Union Sluicing Company New Orleans Company Columbian Company Ajax Quartz Mining Company Achilles Quartz Mining Company ... Caledonian Quartz Mining Company Kohinoor Quartz Mining Company German Quart z Mining Company ... 24th July, 1865 7th Aug., 1865 4th Aug., 1865 5th Sept., 1865 15th Aug., 1865 2nd Feb., 1866 12th April, 1866 19th Mai'., 1866 20th Mar., 1866 ditto 12th April, 1866 16 16 16 3 16 15 16 16 16 16 1 2 4 2 4 1 34 0 0 2 4 2 7 2 4 2 4 2 4 2 4 0 5 ditto ditto 13th Nov., 1865 17th Jan., 1866 19th Mar., 1866 28th May, 1866 9th May, 1866 ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto 15th Dec, 1865 ditto 25th Jan., 1866 23rd Mar., 1866 4th June, 1866 15th May, 1866 ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto. ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto. I lueenstown -i Leviathan Mining Company Big Beach Company ... Morning Star Company 31st July, 1865 11th May, 1865 18th Jan., 1866 9 10 7 3 27 0 0 1 7 9th Oct., 1865 7th Mar., 1866 9th July, 1866 10th Oct., 1865 loth Mar., 1866 11th July, 1866 [Rec/vd. at Dnnedinl 13th Mar., 1866 3rd Sept., 1866 Notice not expired.

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RETURN OF APPLICATIONS TOll GOLD MINING LEASES.

JIETTTRX showing tho Applications or OLD IVINTi EASES, ic. — con, 'miiri Dmtbict. Names of Apfucahtb. Date of Application. f.xtent of Claim. Receipt inRecommendation Office, DlNEDIN. Disposed of ix and now. Wm forwarded to General GoYICHNMKNT. BY Geneiiai. Government. Remarks. a. n. r. 18th Mar., 1806 '"pper Shotovcr ... British and American Company Otago Quartz Mining Company (Xo. 1) Vulcan Quartz Mining Company ... Hibernian Quartz Mining Company lialhiral and Victorian Victoria Company Qiieeiistown Quartz Company Alexandra Mining Company Mount Aurum Company Wire Glume Company Advance Company Never Budge Company Otago Quartz Mining Company (No. 2) New Year's Gift Company ... Orasnt Quartz Mining Company ... Shamrock Company ... Scandinavian Prospecting Company Prince of AVales Company ... Skipper's Creek Company 29th April, 1865 28th .Tune, 18C5 8th July, 1805 25th Sept., 1805 3rd Oct., 1805 8th Sept., 18G5 2nd Nov., 1805 8th Sept., 1865 10th Aug., 1805 20th Dee., 1866 22nd Dec., 1805 89th Dee., 1805 26th Jan., 1800 lsl Jan., 18GG 27th Dec, 18C5 5th Feb., 1800 Oth Feb., 1800 20th Feb., 180(i 7th Feb., 18GG 15 3 33 10 0 8 3 1 15 3 9 14 2 20 6 1 27 16 0 8 11. 2 4 11 3 2 3 3 10 12 1 22 12 0 •1 3 35 14 3 30 U 1 0 16 1 0 5 1 37 4 3 21 4 0 3 1 lth June, 1865 17th Jan., I860 ditto ditto 5th Feb., 1800 21st Feb., 1866 ditto ditto 26th Mar., 1860 ditto ditto ditto ditto 4th April, 1866 4th June, 18GG 2nd July, 1866 4th June. I860 18th June, 1866 23rd July, 18G6 27th June, 1865 25th Jan., 180G ditto ditto 27th Feb., 1806 ditto 28th Feb., 180(5 27th Feb., 1866 28th Mar., 1866 ditto ditto ditto ditto 18th April, 1800 8th June, 1806 ■lth July, 1806 3rd Sept., 1860 Not Registered, ditto, ditto, ditto. ditto, ditto. ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto. Returned 1o Warden. 25th June, 1866 4th Aug.. 1866 3rd Sept., 1800 Notice not expired. Hindon Union Jack Company Commercial Quartz Company Taieri Quartz Company 4th Aug., 1865 15th July, 18G5 27th Nov., 1805 1G 2 4 16 2 4 15 2 8 15th Jan., 1866 ditto ditto 27th Feb., 1806 7th Mar., 18GG ditto Not Registered, ditto, ditto. r Homeward Bound Company Victoria Company United Company Sonburn Company Long Valley Crushing Company A'ictoria Sluicing Company ... All Nations Company Mount Ida Extended Company 20th April, 1865 7th Aug., 1805 ■1th Aug., 1805 10th Jan., I860 Oth Feb., 1800 7th Feb., 18G6 12th Feb., 1866 14th Mar., 1866 4 0 0 4 0 0 6 0 0 26th July, 1865 ditto 25th Oct., 1865 16th Julv, 1806 dilto ditto ditto ditto 18th Aug., 1805 10th Aug., 1865 [Reevd. at Duncdin] 13th Feb., 1866 ditto Hamilton ... ... 16 2 4 Relumed to Warden. j Relumed to Warden for completion of Plans. 4 0 0 5 0 0 N.B. —The Leases to Companies not yet registered are ready for execution, but have been purposely detained to enable them to register previously. Two mouths' notice is required after receipt by General Government of Application before Lease can be granted. Alfred Domktt, Secretary for Crown Lands,