✨ Gold mining lease applications
Superintendent\'s Office, Nelson, 30th November, 1868.
IN conformity with the provisions of the Gold-mining Lease Regulations, published in the New Zealand Gazette, November 15, of 1866, it is hereby notified that it is intended to GRANT LEASES for Gold-mining purposes on Crown Lands within the District of the Golden Bay Goldfields, specified in the following applications:—
| 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 Land. | The locality. | Term for which Lease required. | Time of commencing Operations. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. R. P. | £ | |||||||
| Thomas Langdon, George Langdon, Thomas Brewer, Rocky River, Collingwood. | Langdon Bros., and Brewer. | 1 1 0 | For the first four months four men. Subsequent, when in full work four men. | On the Sluicing principle. | Terrace Rocky River. | Fourteen years. | Immediately upon granting of lease. | |
| William Everley Washbourne, Collingwood. | W. E. Washbourne. | 6 0 0 | For the first three months three men. Subsequent, when in full work six men. | 200 | Drainage, Ground sluicing, and Raising dirt by machinery. | Appo\'s Gully. | Fifteen years. | Immediately upon granting of lease. |
| David Ernest, Appo\'s Gully, Collingwood. | Hit or Miss Company. | 3 0 0 | For the first month two men. Subsequent, when in full work three men. | 300 | Deep tail race and ground sluice. | Between Glen Gyle & Appo\'s Gully. | Fifteen years. | Immediately upon granting of lease. |
| Duncan Corby, Duncan Corby, George Anderson, Francis Henry Montague Ellis, Glen Gyle, Collingwood. | Glen Gyle Gold Mining Company Limited. | 4 0 0 | For the first three months four men. Subsequent, when in full work four men. | 900 | Hydraulic Hose and Sluicing process. | Glen Gyle. | Fifteen years. | Immediately upon granting of lease. |
OSWALD CURTIS,
Superintendent.
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1868, No 57
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🌾 Intention to grant gold-mining leases in the Golden Bay Goldfields
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources30 November 1868
Gold mining, Leases, Crown Lands, Golden Bay, Collingwood, Nelson
8 names identified
- Thomas Langdon, Applicant for gold mining lease
- George Langdon, Applicant for gold mining lease
- Thomas Brewer, Applicant for gold mining lease
- William Everley Washbourne, Applicant for gold mining lease
- David Ernest, Applicant for gold mining lease
- Duncan Corby, Applicant for gold mining lease
- George Anderson, Applicant for gold mining lease
- Francis Henry Montague Ellis, Applicant for gold mining lease
- Oswald Curtis, Superintendent