NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 99

2. REMOVAL OF WALLS.

If any person is desirous of removing any wall, he can do so on obtaining, in writing, the consent of the holder of the adjacent claim or the authority of the Warden.

3. REGISTRATION.

Upon the renewal of any certificate of registration the Warden may impose any fresh conditions which circumstances may have rendered necessary.

4. TRANSFERS.

The neglect or failure to register any right or interest, or assignment of any right or interest, in cases in which registration is required by the regulations, shall be held to involve a forfeiture of the right or interest concerned.

5. VENTILATION.

When cross drives or openings are required for ventilation, and the various parties concerned cannot agree thereon, the Warden may issue an order for making such drives or openings, and for the allocation of the work to be performed, and also for the distribution of any auriferous deposits which may be found in the intervening wall.

X. APPLICATIONS, REGISTRATIONS, AND TRANSFERS.

1. NOTICES TO BE POSTED ON APPLICATION.

Head Race.
Tail Race.
Branch Race.
Flood Race.
Alteration or extension of a Race.
Diversion of the course of a Creek.
Tramway or Shoot for Mining purposes.
Dam or Puddling Machine.
Amalgamation of Claims.
Residence Area.
Tunnel.
Protection for more than seven days, and renewal.
Special Site for Machinery, or for any purpose.
Quartz Prospecting Claim.
Quartz Extended Claim.
Quartz Prospecting Area.
Ordinary Quartz Claims.

Any person desirous of obtaining a registered right to any of the above-mentioned privileges, shall give notice to the Warden and to all persons whose interests will obviously be affected, and shall obtain from the Warden's Office, and post and maintain for seven clear days, copies of such notices, in such conspicuous places as are hereinafter more particularly specified.

2. NOTICES TO CONTAIN PARTICULARS.

All notices must contain the name of each member of the party, together with the number of his Miners' Right; and there shall also be set forth in the notice a statement, signed by the Warden or his clerk, of the time and place at which the application and objections (if any) will be heard and decided.

3. WHERE NOTICES ARE TO BE POSTED.

Notices for application for races, or tramways, or diversion of a creek, must be posted at each end of the proposed corner of the race, tramway, or diversion, and at each separate source of a head-race; and the intended course must also be conspicuously indicated by pegs or flags placed not more than 100 yards apart, or if through bush, by a blazed line.

Notices of application for tunnels must be posted at the mouth of the tunnel, and also on the claim.

All other notices must be posted on the claim, right, or privilege to which the application refers; and in all cases one copy of each set of notices must be left with the Warden, to be posted in such places as he may think fit.

4. OBJECTIONS.

Any person objecting to the grant of any privilege for which application has been made, shall give notice to the applicant, and shall appear to substantiate his objection at the time and place appointed for the hearing.

5. HEARING.

At the time and place appointed for the hearing, the name of the applicant's party shall be called, and the application and objections heard; and if no valid objection is lodged, and if the Warden sees no valid objection, he may issue for any of the above-mentioned privileges a Certificate of Registration (containing the names of those whose Miners' Rights have been produced), upon such terms as he may think necessary or desirable for the public good.

6. COSTS.

The Warden may, when he considers that any applicant or objector, either by failing to appear, or by the frivolous or vexatious nature of his application or objection, has caused any person unnecessarily to incur expense, allow such expenses as he may consider just and equitable.

7. CERTIFICATE TO BE CANCELLED.

If any certificate of Registration shall have been obtained by misrepresentation, or if any of the prescribed conditions have not been duly complied with, or if, after the issue of any certificate any objector shall appear and show to the satisfaction of the Warden that he has a valid objection, and shall also show good cause for not having appeared at the time and place appointed for the hearing, the Warden may, upon proof thereof, cancel such certificate, or may upon other order therein as may be just and equitable: provided that no certificate shall be invalidated by reason of any technical informality in any of the proceedings.

8. REGISTRATION.

All claims, rights, and privileges, mining partnerships and agreements between holders of Miners' Rights or Business Licenses may be registered; but all privileges for which it is necessary to post notices of application, and all quartz claims, prospecting claims, and tunnelling claims must be registered.