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11. Claim during Absence may be registered.—If any person shall satisfy the Resident Magistrate that he has reasonable cause for longer discontinuance than one month, the Resident Magistrate may register his claim, and such protection as aforesaid shall be granted to him upon such registration for a term not exceeding three months. Provided that no person so discontinuing under this or the preceding regulation shall have any right to occupy any other claim during such absence.

12. Claim not forfeited by necessary Suspension of Working.—If any person shall find it impossible to continue the working of his claim from flooding of rivers, or other natural causes over which he has no control, he may register his claim with the Resident Magistrate for a term not exceeding three months, during which time he shall be entitled to occupy a claim elsewhere.

13. "Jumping," or taking Possession of Forfeited Claims.—Any holder of a miner's right may take possession of a claim legally forfeited by its last occupant. Provided that if it shall be found upon reference to the Resident Magistrate that the claim had not been legally forfeited, the Resident Magistrate shall replace such occupant in possession.

ROAD AND WATER RIGHTS TO BE RESPECTED.

14. Tracks not to be obstructed.—If a cart track shall have been formed over any abandoned claim, such track shall not be restored or obstructed by any persons intending to rework the ground, unless they shall previously make another track in lieu thereof.

15. Tail Races not to be obstructed.—If any person shall take possession of unoccupied ground over which water escapes from an unoccupied claim, he shall not obstruct the flow thereof so as to throw it back upon the claim from which it escapes.

16. Water Courses may be diverted.—Any person may, by consent of the Resident Magistrate, divert any stream or part of a stream from any place where it is not at the time required to be some other place where it may be required, by the construction of a dam and race, or otherwise; and if the water shall have been diverted for a distance of not less than twenty chains, or at an expense of not less than Fifty Pounds, he shall be entitled to sell such water at a fair valuation.

17. Fourteen Days' Preference to Works already constructed.—If any person shall have led water previous to the issue of these regulations, he shall have a preferential right for twenty-one days next after the publication in the Government Gazette of the Order in Council to register his claim in respect to such water privileges.

18. Water Works not to be injured wilfully.—No person shall injure any race or dam, or do anything to obstruct the water, or to deprive the person who has diverted the water, of the use thereof.

19. Nor by carelessly felling Timber.—If any person shall fell any tree, log, or timber, either intentionally, or by undermining or other means, he shall remove it beyond the reach of floods, so that it may not be drifted down any stream.

RIVER MINING.

20. Beds of Streams may be laid bare.—Any person, with consent of the Resident Magistrate, may lay bare the bed of any river, either by diverting the stream, or by other means; but ground intended to be so laid bare must be marked off by stakes, and the stream returned into its natural channel below the workings.

21. Such Works not to be obstructed.—No person shall obstruct or in any manner interfere with such work, either in progress or completed; nor do any- thing to prevent the object proposed to be accomplished thereby.

22. Right to Surplus Ground.—If more ground shall be laid bare than the number of miners' rights held by the party shall entitle them to occupy, they shall be allowed one week from a notice thereof by the Resident Magistrate to place thereon as many holders of miners' rights as they shall think fit; after which time any holder of a miner's right may occupy the surplus ground if there then remain any, paying to the party who constructed the works a fair proportion of the expense incurred in diverting the stream.

Crown Lands Office, Auckland,
5th October, 1859.

THE following application for a lease of Crown Land for Gold-mining purposes is published for general information, pursuant to the seventh clause of the "Gold Fields Act, 1858."

HENRY JOHN TANCRED.

Applicant—W. Washbourne.
Locality—Golden Gully.
Area—Sixty-five Acres.

Bounded on the north-east by a line commencing at a peg on the right bank of the Golden Gully stream, thence S.E. 174 links, thence at a right angle N.E. 330 links, thence at a right angle S.E. 174 links, thence at a right angle N.E. 239 links, thence at a right angle N.W. 174 links, thence at a right angle N.E. 500 links, thence at a right angle S.E. 1,450 links to a point distant 600 links from the left bank of the Parapara river; on the South-east by a line at a right angle S.W. 3,569 links; on the S.W. by a line at a right angle N.W. 2,000 links; on the N.W. by a line at a right angle N.E. 2,500 links; and again on the N.E. by a line at a right angle S.E. 376 links to the bank of the Golden Gully stream, and across the said stream to the point of commencement.

One rood of land is not included in this application, situate at the top of the Golden Gully, and distant from the South-eastern boundary line 740 links.

At the Government House at Auckland, the Seventh day of October, 1859.

Present:—
His Excellency the GOVERNOR,
Colonel GOLD, Mr. RICHMOND,
Mr. WHITAKER, Mr. TANCRED.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the General Assembly, intituled the "Gold Duty Act, 1858," it is enacted that, from and after the day on which the act now in recital should come into operation, there should be levied, collected, and paid to her Majesty, her heirs, and successors, for the public uses of the Colony, and in support of the Government