Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1868 – No. 54

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✨ Gold-mining lease application

Superintendent\'s Office,
Nelson, 19th November, 1868.

IN conformity with the provisions of the Gold-mining Lease Regulations, published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 15, of 1866, it is hereby notified that it is intended to GRANT a LEASE for Gold-mining purposes on Crown Lands within the District of the Nelson South-west Goldfields, specified in the following application:--

Name and Address in full of Applicants.	Style under which it is intended to conduct the Business.	Extent of Land applied for.	Minimum number of Men to be employed by the Lessee.	Amount of Capital proposed to be invested.	Proposed mode of working the Land.	Precise locality.	Term for which Lease required.	Time of commencing Operations.
Richard Steele, Henry Moore, John Lawrey, Robert M\'Diarmid, William Coombes, and Thomas Olive, all of Charleston.	Steele and Party.	10 0 0	For the first month six men. Subsequent, when in full work ten men.	£1,200	To crush the Cement by an Iron Battery, worked by a Waterwheel, 20 feet in diameter.	Black Lead, Darkie\'s Terrace, near Charleston.	Three years.	Immediately upon granting of lease.

OSWALD CURTIS,
Superintendent.

PDF — Nelson Provincial Gazette 1868, No 54

The Nelson Provincial Council Buildings (depicted) were constructed beginning with the laying of the foundation stone on 26 August 1859, with the first Council meeting held there on 30 April 1861.

The buildings served Nelson for over a century before being demolished on 12 September 1969.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🌾 Application for a Gold-mining lease on Crown Lands

Domain🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
Dated19 November 1868
KeywordsGold-mining lease, Crown Lands, Nelson South-west Goldfields, Charleston, Steele and Party
👱🏽 Names

6 names identified

Richard Steele, Applicant for gold-mining lease
Henry Moore, Applicant for gold-mining lease
John Lawrey, Applicant for gold-mining lease
Robert M'Diarmid, Applicant for gold-mining lease
William Coombes, Applicant for gold-mining lease
Thomas Olive, Applicant for gold-mining lease

👩‍💼 Officials

Oswald Curtis, Superintendent

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