C—No. 2.

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.