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occupy it, unless the employer fail to engage
another holder of a Miner's right to occupy it
within one week.

Forfeiture of Claim.

Fourteen days 9. Any person discontinuing
absence to for- the working of his claim for
feit claim. fourteen consecutive days shall be
considered to have forfeited such claim, except
as hereinafter provided.

Notice of in- 10. Any person intending to
tended absence discontinue the working of his
to be given claim may do so after giving
notice of such intention to his nearest neigh-
bours, nor shall any other person be permitted
to occupy the claim in his absence. Provided
that such protection shall not continue longer
than one month.

Claim during 11. If any person shall satisfy
absence may the Resident Magistrate that he
be registered. has reasonable cause for longer
discontinuance than one month, the Resi-
dent 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 pre-
ceding regulation shall have any right to occupy
any other claim during such absence.

Claim not for- 12. If any person shall find it
feited by ne- impossible to continue the work-
cessary suspen- ing of his claim, from flooding of
sion of work- rivers, or other natural causes
ing. 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.

"Jumping," 13. Any holder of a Miner's
or taking pos- right may take possession of a
session of for- claim legally forfeited by its last
feited claims. 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.

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

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

Water courses 16. Any person may, by con-
may be di- sent of the Resident Magistrate
verted. divert any stream or part of a
stream from any place where it is not at the
time required to 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.

Fourteen days 17. If any person shall have
preference to works already led water previous to the issue of
constructed. these Regulations, he shall have
a preferential right for twenty-one days next
after the publication in the Government Ga-
zette of the Order in Council to register his
claim in respect to such water privileges.

Water works 18. No person shall injure any
not to be in- water works or dam, or do anything to
jured wilfully obstruct the water, or to deprive
the person who has diverted the water, of the
use thereof.

Nor by care- 19. If any person shall fell any
lessly falling tree, log, or timber, either inten-
timber. tionally, or by undermining or
other means, he shall remove them beyond the
reach of floods, so that it may not be drifted
down any stream.

River Mining.

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

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

Right to sur- 22. If more ground shall be
plus ground. laid bare than the number of
miner's rights held by the party shall entitle
them to occupy, they shall be allowed one week
from a notice thereof by the Resident Magis-
trate to place thereon as many holders of
miner's rights as they shall think fit; after
which time any holder of a miner's right may
occupy the surplus ground if there then re-
main 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 Gulley.
Area—Sixty-five Acres.

Bounded on the North-east by a line com-
mencing 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